Field AI
Irvine, California company founded in 2023 that builds foundation-model software to let robots work without maps or GPS on construction, energy and industrial sites. It has reported raising more than $400 million.
Industry: Robot autonomy software | Location: Irvine, United States | Founded: 2023 | Total Funding: USD 314M
About Field AI
FieldAI is a company based in Irvine, California that builds autonomy software for robots. Its Field Foundation Models act as a robot-agnostic brain that lets machines operate in unpredictable settings without maps, GPS or predefined routes, and combine data-driven AI with physics-based reasoning and uncertainty quantification. FieldAI does not manufacture robots; its software runs on quadrupeds and humanoids, and the company lists construction, energy, mining, logistics, manufacturing and federal customers.
The company says it was founded in 2023. Its own timeline traces the team to NASA's BRAILLE project, the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, where Team CoSTAR won the Urban Circuit in 2020, and the DARPA RACER programme. Ali Agha is founder and chief executive. FieldAI's team page also lists Shayegan Omidshafiei, who leads AI and science and previously worked at Google and DeepMind, chief technologist David Fan, Carnegie Mellon professor Sebastian Scherer, Eric Krotkov, who leads FieldAI Federal, and chief financial officer Duncan McIntyre.
In March 2026 FieldAI and Boston Dynamics announced a partnership to run FieldAI's models on the Spot robot for construction-site inspection, and FieldAI said it was expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA on Omniverse, Isaac Sim and digital-twin tools. On 2 September 2026 Caterpillar announced a collaboration with FieldAI on autonomous inspections and digital twins for jobsites and factories. Big-D Construction described expanding its use of FieldAI robots in an April 2026 post. FieldAI's website shows deployment sites across the United States, Europe, Asia and Dubai.
TechCrunch reported on 20 August 2025 that FieldAI had raised $405 million across several previously undisclosed rounds, the latest being $314 million co-led by Bezos Expeditions, Prysm and Temasek, with Khosla Ventures, Intel Capital and Canaan Partners also investing. FieldAI's September 2026 boilerplate lists Emerson Collective and NVentures among its investors.
In October 2026 The Next Web reported that FieldAI had signed a term sheet to raise about $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, roughly five times its valuation a year earlier, and that the round had not closed. The same report put revenue and signed contracts above $135 million across more than 30 customers.
Leadership
- Ali Agha, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Shayegan Omidshafiei, Leads AI and Science
- David Fan, Leads innovation and technology
- Sebastian Scherer, Director of Fieldable Embodied AI
- Eric Krotkov, Head of strategy and business development, FieldAI Federal
- Duncan McIntyre, Chief Financial Officer