Algomatic Dynamics, the physical AI subsidiary formed under Algomatic Inc.'s new DMM Group three-company structure, said on September 9, 2026 that it has raised ¥5 billion (about $34 million) in a first financing led by DMM.com LLC, and has formally launched its robotics and physical AI operations. The capital will be spent on hardware for R&D and on compute, with a first commercial milestone — a domestic AI multi-finger hand platform — targeted for release inside 2026.
DMM's second run at robotics
The deal marks DMM Chairman Keishi Kameyama's second attempt at a robotics play, after the group exited an earlier six-year effort about a decade ago. Kameyama said the pace of AI and robotics progress in the last few years — and a meeting with Algomatic's leadership — persuaded him to try again, this time as a single-check anchor investor rather than an in-house team. Algomatic Dynamics operates as a standalone startup inside the group's new parent-plus-two-operating-companies structure that took effect on June 1, 2026.
Contact-rich hands, bipedal control, and tacit-knowledge capture
Algomatic Dynamics is organised around three core technologies. The first is contact-rich multi-finger manipulation — an AI hand that senses and controls several contact points at once and switches its grasping strategy on the fly for rigid parts, soft materials and unevenly weighted items. The second is bipedal locomotion control that fuses model-based control with reinforcement learning, motion capture and video-derived human motion so that humanoid platforms stay upright over uneven ground, steps and slopes. The third is a knowledge-capture pipeline that turns overhead videos of skilled workers into structured data for timing, force and gaze, converting shop-floor tacit knowledge into training signal for robots.
Three business lines and a 2026 product target
Commercially, the company is offering an end-to-end stack: motion-data collection and learning (including robot rentals and operator-supported dispatch), AI hand sales bundled with tuning and maintenance, and entertainment AI toys — bipedal character robots that leverage the same locomotion technology. The company is deliberately capping simultaneous engagements to keep PoCs from stalling. The AI multi-finger hand platform is scheduled for a domestic Japanese release later in 2026, positioning Algomatic Dynamics alongside a wave of new Japanese physical AI plays such as LG, Nota and Mobilint's Korean-NPU humanoid and Samsung SDS-backed Walden Robotics, both of which have raised regionally in the last week.
Reporting based on coverage from Robostart and Tech Startups.