Destro AI raises $8M to coordinate mixed robot fleets in enterprise warehouses

What happened

has raised $8 million in new funding to bring its platform for coordinating mixed robot fleets to more enterprise warehouses, using the funds partly to hire more engineers and researchers. UPDATED 18:52 EDT / SEPTEMBER 30 2026 EMERGING TECH Destro AI raises $8M to coordinate mixed robot fleets in enterprise warehouses by Duncan Riley Warehouse robotics software startup Destro AI Inc.

Warehouse robotics software startup Destro AI Inc. Destro provides software that tells warehouse robots what to do, whichever company built them.

“Everyone is building capable robots,” said founder and Chief Executive Manthan Pawar, who expects the next breakthrough to come from “the intelligence layer that enables any robot to work together.” Sitting outside any one robot, the software assigns each task across a mixed fleet, down to when and where the work happens. Mobile manipulation is handled on the robots by a second system, VisionOS, built on artificial intelligence models that learned from human demonstrations how to perceive and grasp objects.

Key facts

• Destro — provides: software that tells warehouse robots what to do, whichever company built them