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    {
      "company": "Club First Robotics",
      "hq_country": "India",
      "website": "https://clubfirst.org/",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "Builds the SONA series of wheeled humanoid service robots, including SONA 3.5, for goods delivery in hospitals, hotels and restaurants, with voice interaction, facial recognition and SLAM navigation. Its catalog also lists XENA 3.5 as a SONA-series humanoid for reception, greetings and customer engagement (https://clubfirst.org/product/xena-35-ai-humanoid-service-robot).",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://clubfirst.org/product/sona-3.5-humanoid-robot",
      "founded_year": "2020",
      "founded_source": "https://clubfirst.org/about-us",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "none disclosed",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "No disclosed equity fundraising amounts or post-money valuation found as of 2026-11-03; no rounds summed or currency conversions made. Excluded 2020-08-06 L&T Hydrocarbon/GCSRA robot funding (https://clubfirst.org/news/lt-hydrocarbon-engineering-funding-robot-along-with-gcsra-gujrat) and 2020-09-09 L&T funding of four Rajkot robots (https://clubfirst.org/news/lt-funded-4-more-robots-at-rajkot): robot sponsorship/CSR procurement, not disclosed equity rounds; no investment amount stated. Company site gives 2020 for this robotics company; earlier Club First origins and Club First Technologies are distinct milestones. SONA 3.5 remains a catalogued humanoid; its unveiling year and the relative launch chronology of XENA 3.5 could not be established.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "SONA 3.5 (also catalogued as XENA 3.5 AI Humanoid Service Robot)",
      "latest_model_year": null,
      "latest_model_source": "https://clubfirst.org/product/sona-3.5-humanoid-robot",
      "units_shipped": null,
      "units_shipped_source": "https://organiser.org/2023/11/12/206019/bharat/club-first-robotics-clubbing-robotics-with-bharatiyata/",
      "units_shipped_note": "No explicit humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped total found. Organiser reported on 2023-11-12 that more than 40 robots had been deployed in Gujarat hospitals during the pandemic, in a passage discussing SONA 2.5 robot nurses and XENA ELI screening robots. This is an imprecise deployment count with no product breakdown, so it is not treated as a humanoid shipment total.",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://clubfirst.org/about-us",
    "https://clubfirst.org/product/sona-3.5-humanoid-robot",
    "https://clubfirst.org/product/xena-35-ai-humanoid-service-robot",
    "https://organiser.org/2023/11/12/206019/bharat/club-first-robotics-clubbing-robotics-with-bharatiyata/",
    "https://clubfirst.org/news/lt-funded-4-more-robots-at-rajkot",
    "https://clubfirst.org/news/lt-hydrocarbon-engineering-funding-robot-along-with-gcsra-gujrat"
  ]
}