Tutor Intelligence raises US$75m Series B — warehouse robots rented by the hour, a data-flywheel "robot labor" business model

Tutor Intelligence has closed a US$75 million Series B (led by Andreessen Horowitz; US$117 million total funding; USV and Neo participating). Its model differs from classic robotics vendors: the robots (Sonny, bimanual, for each-picking, and Cassie, a single-arm mobile unit for case picking and palletizing) are not sold but rented by the hour or per pick ("from $14 an hour" per its website — vendor-reported), with no long-term contracts; deployment starts from pre-trained models built in a "Data Factory" of 100 bimanual robots plus remote human "tutors" who step in when the AI fails, and that recovery data trains the next generation of models. Tutor says its robot fleet has grown 2x with roughly 4x more