Venture investors can’t get enough of robots, pouring $11.2 million into a Canadian startup offering light-industrial bots and marking another sign that the robot revolution is just beginning.

Clearpath Robotics Inc. will use the infusion, its first institutional funding round, to expand from providing air, water and terrestrial bots to the military to outfitting Fortune 500 companies seeking to automate dull, dirty and dangerous jobs.

...