Prime Movers Lab, an investor, led a $20m Series A-1round in Robust.Ai, a manufacturer of robots for warehouses, with participation from Future Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, JAZZ Ventures and Playground Global. “Very often people think about automation as a perfect or complete substitute for people. But it just doesn’t work that way. If you think about the overall system, and what needs to be done — and think about it as a balance between what machines do and what people do to maximize productivity and cost effectiveness — you end up with better solutions. That’s something people get wrong when you try to automate everything out, and that leads to systems that are both brittle and less cost effective," Anthony Jules, Robust.Ai Founder and CEO.