The company claims to operate the largest U.S. fleet of dexterous robots in continuous service and claims a reliability of more than 99.99%, without specifying what this figure measures.
Watney announced on September 17, 2026 an A series of $80 million, led by the Valor Atreides AI and Hummingbird Ventures fund, with the participation of Conviction, Abstract, A* and the investor Grant Gordon. The company thus exceeds $100 million raised in total.
Its niche is narrow and deliberately not spectacular: dexter robots assigned to the operation of data centers, starting with the last metre wiring of AI's infrastructures — a manual task, repetitive and currently limited by the available workforce. Watney says he has been serving as a major data centre operator since 2025 and has accumulated several hundred thousand hours in its customers' facilities, without naming them.
Two claims call for caution: that of exploiting the largest U.S. fleet of continuous-acting dexter robots, and that of greater reliability than 99.99%. The announcement does not say on what metric this rate is, or what volume of human intervention is still needed. The business model is based on pilot deployments rather than the sale of a platform.
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