Funding Shimizu Took a Stake in a Sunnyvale Humanoid Maker. The Robots Start Inside BIM Before They Start On Site. Shimizu said on 16 October that it has completed an investment in Noble Machines and opened a joint development programme around the Sunnyvale startup's humanoid AI robots. The release does not size the stake, and does not say when the investment closed. What it does give is a sequence — virtual simulations against Shimizu's own BIM/CIM data by the end of this year, physical robots on live sites from next spring — and three starter tasks: moving materials, navigating the site, walking patrols. Hugo Pegley · Oct 23, 2026
