The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Bright Machines: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $179.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
CategoryIndustrial Robots
Appears inManufacturing robots
Overview
American manufacturing technology company developing fully integrated 'Bright Factory' systems for data center infrastructure manufacturing. Incubated by Eclipse ventures. SPAC deal pulled, raised $100M instead.
Reality check
Product (company-claimed)
Bright Factory, an integrated manufacturing system for hyperscale data center hardware.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
CEO (reported, unconfirmed)
Funding (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Bright Machines has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Also1× joint4 total
- 2Eclipse Ventures1× joint2 total
Most recent
Bright Machines on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Bright Machines's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Bright Machines deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Amar Hanspal Founder & CEOsince 2018-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Amar Hanspalsolefounded 2018-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Bright Machines.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Bright Machines1 deployment
Recent coverage
Bright Machines in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Bright Machines competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Bright Machines.
Companies (1)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $179.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 just announced
Every company Bright Machines has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Also1× joint4 total
- 2Eclipse Ventures1× joint2 total
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2018-10-01
$179M(reported)
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund 1 (lead), Microsoft M12, ABB Technology Ventures
Timeline
Every recorded move in Bright Machines’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2018-10-01Series A raising $179000000
Key hireAmar Hanspal joins as Founder & CEO
2018-01-01Amar Hanspal appointed Founder & CEO (current)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Bright Machines: Smart Robotics
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Bright Machines: Software Configured Assembly Automation
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Bright Machines Microfactory at Tijuana
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Bright Machines.Peer companies
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Savoye4 models
- ABB3 models
- KUKA AG3 models
- Ambi Robotics2 models
- Beckhoff Automation2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Bright Machines from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Teradyne invests in Bright Machines to bring robotics to AI infrastructure manufacturing
The companies plan to integrate Teradyne robotics and test technologies with the Bright Machines manufacturing platform. The post Teradyne invests in Bright Machines to bring…
Bright Machines Raises $126M Series C Funding to Propel Manufacturing into Software-Defined Era
Bright Machines raised $126M in Series C funding to propel manufacturing into the software-defined era, bringing total funding to $648M across 5 rounds.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/bright-machines.md
- RSS feed: /companies/bright-machines/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/5047ad47-f420-4d43-b461-caab4e48a910
- Revision history: /companies/bright-machines/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Savoye4 models
- ABB3 models
- KUKA AG3 models
- Ambi Robotics2 models
- Beckhoff Automation2 models
Video
Bright Machines was born out of the desire to help manufacturers effortlessly and autonomously build the next generation of smart electronic products. Our global team consists of leading experts in applied science, softw
In this interview, Bright Machines CEO Sviat Dulianinov joins theCUBE + NYSE Wired co-host Gemma Allen to examine how advanced automation is redefining American
Sviat Dulianinov, Chief Strategy Officer of Bright Machines joins theCUBE host John Furrier as we continue our coverage of theCUBE + NYSE Wired Robotics & AI Me
The Bright Machines integration lab is where Bright Machines software and hardware come to life, helping solve some of the biggest challenges in manufacturing t
Being able to change over your production lines from one variation of a product to another is important for our global customers. In this video, we explain how
Our technology sets us apart. Our proprietary Smart Skills technology delivers human-like flexibility with the precision of advanced automation, making us uniqu
Our smart robotics are software-driven and perform high-precision assembly tasks with the ability to make real-time adjustments during assembly navigation. Lear
Tech demo by Bright Machines at the AI+ Robotics Summit. The Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+Summit Series is a set of high-level events dedicated to
Interview with @Bright-Machines CEO and Eclipse VC, Lior Susan. We talk about factory automation, humanoid robots, digital twins, building the backbone of AI an
Industrial film for Bright Machines. Automated robotic assembly in motion — precision, speed, and the future of manufacturing captured on the production floor
AI+ Expo for National Competitiveness - “Bright Machines, Building AI Infrastructure with AI, Robotics, and Data in the U.S.” - Sviat Dulianinov, CSO, Bright Ma
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Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Bright Machines draws attention at the 55th percentile but verifies reality at the 16th percentile among industrial_robot robots. Hype Gap +39.6, 9th widest among industrial_robot robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 21, 2026