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      "company": "pi4 Robotics",
      "hq_country": "Germany",
      "website": "https://www.pi4.de/",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "pi4 builds Workerbot3, a dual-arm humanoid factory robot for flexible loading, unloading and inspection work. Its newer Workerbot9 line has a humanoid appearance and provides mobile services such as deliveries and information in care facilities.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.pi4.de/news.html",
      "founded_year": "1999",
      "founded_source": "https://handelsregister.ai/de/organizations/berlin/herstellung-von-mehrzweckindustrierobotern/pi4-robotics-gmbh-cc87ae1848a41e4c0e10a60e7f709f1b",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "none disclosed",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "No disclosed equity rounds or valuation found; therefore there is no valuation date. Federal funding for Workerbot9 Care-home development under the RoMi project was research support, not an equity round, and is excluded (https://www.pi4.de/news.html). pi4 dates its predecessor engineering consultancy to 1994 (https://www.pi4.de/careers.html); founded_year uses the GmbH's 1999 trade-register entry (https://handelsregister.ai/de/organizations/berlin/herstellung-von-mehrzweckindustrierobotern/pi4-robotics-gmbh-cc87ae1848a41e4c0e10a60e7f709f1b).",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "Workerbot9",
      "latest_model_year": "2023",
      "latest_model_source": "https://www.pi4.de/news.html",
      "units_shipped": null,
      "units_shipped_source": null,
      "units_shipped_note": "No exact published count of humanoid units sold, shipped or delivered found. A 2017 report said only 'hundreds' of robots had been sold, without an exact count (https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/mensch-und-maschine-im-robozan-5504608.html). pi4's figure of over 10,000 systems in use is not broken out for humanoid robots (https://www.imittelstand.de/themen/presse.html?boxid=1210875).",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.pi4.de/",
    "https://www.pi4.de/about.html",
    "https://www.pi4.de/product-wb3.html",
    "https://www.pi4.de/product-wb9_care-home.html",
    "https://www.pi4.de/news.html",
    "https://handelsregister.ai/de/organizations/berlin/herstellung-von-mehrzweckindustrierobotern/pi4-robotics-gmbh-cc87ae1848a41e4c0e10a60e7f709f1b",
    "https://www.pi4.de/careers.html",
    "https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/mensch-und-maschine-im-robozan-5504608.html",
    "https://www.imittelstand.de/themen/presse.html?boxid=1210875"
  ]
}