Robotics companies in California
42 robotics companies across 20 cities in California.
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Builds general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial work and the home, and develops its own vision-language-action model to control them. The company publishes demos of its robots doing logistics and household tasks.
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Alphabet company building a software platform that makes industrial robots easier to program, with perception, motion planning and simulation as reusable building blocks.
Toyota Research Institute
Toyota's US research arm, whose robotics group works on large behavior models, home-assistance robots and manipulation research shared through open publications.
NVIDIA Robotics
Chip maker whose Jetson compute modules, Isaac simulation tools and GR00T robot foundation models are widely used by humanoid and mobile robot developers.
PSYONIC
Maker of the Ability Hand, a multi-articulating bionic hand with touch feedback that is also used as a robotic end effector on humanoid and research arms.
Foxglove
San Francisco company making tools for recording, visualizing and analyzing robotics data, widely used for debugging ROS and custom robot stacks.
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR)
UC Berkeley's AI research center, a major source of robot learning research including reinforcement learning and vision-based manipulation.
Matic
California company building a home robot vacuum and mop that navigates with onboard cameras and processes its data locally for privacy.
Applied Intuition
Supplies simulation, validation and autonomy software to vehicle and machine makers across automotive, defense and off-road equipment.
Stereolabs
Maker of the ZED stereo cameras and perception SDK used for depth, tracking and spatial mapping on robots and autonomous machines.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Stanford's AI lab, whose robotics groups work on manipulation, imitation learning and household robot research alongside core AI.
Weave Robotics
San Francisco startup building a home robot with arms that tidies and does chores, offered to early customers on a subscription.
Hello Robot
California maker of Stretch, a lightweight mobile manipulator sold to researchers and used in assistive and home-robot studies.
Third Wave Automation
Union City company building shared-autonomy forklifts that can run autonomously or be taken over remotely by a human operator.
NASA JPL Robotics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory's robotics group, building planetary rovers, sampling arms and autonomy for extreme environments.
UC Berkeley AUTOLAB
Berkeley lab researching robot grasping, cloud robotics and the Dex-Net grasp datasets and models used across the field.
Dexterity
Redwood City company building physical-AI robots that load trucks, palletize and handle boxes in logistics facilities.
Knightscope
Sunnyvale maker of autonomous security robots and emergency call boxes, offered to clients as a subscription service.
Collaborative Robotics
Santa Clara company building a mobile collaborative robot that moves and manipulates goods in warehouses and hospitals, designed without a humanlike form.
inVia Robotics
California company offering warehouse picking robots and software as a subscription service tied to throughput.
Ouster
Publicly traded lidar manufacturer whose digital sensors are used in robotics, industrial automation, smart infrastructure and autonomous vehicles.
Dexmate
Santa Clara company building a mobile humanoid platform with dexterous arms and the learning software to make it useful in everyday environments.
Amprius Technologies
Fremont maker of silicon-anode lithium cells with very high energy density, sold for drones, wearables and other weight-critical mobile systems.
UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute
UC San Diego institute coordinating robotics research across engineering and cognitive science, including human-centered and safe autonomy work.
Duality AI
Builds the Falcon digital-twin simulator for generating synthetic training data and testing robot and drone perception before field deployment.
Labrador Systems
California company making the Retriever, an assistive home robot that carries meals, laundry and supplies for people with limited mobility.
Relay Robotics
San Jose company making the Relay autonomous delivery robot used in hospitals and hotels to carry supplies between floors and departments.
Nimble Robotics
San Francisco company operating AI-run fulfillment centers with robotic picking and packing, offered as a service to e-commerce brands.
Westwood Robotics
Los Angeles company selling humanoid and bipedal robot platforms such as THEMIS along with proprioceptive actuators for legged robots.
Ambi Robotics
Berkeley company whose AI-powered sorting robots handle parcels for logistics providers, built on university research into grasping.
Enovix
Fremont battery manufacturer building silicon-anode lithium-ion cells aimed at devices that need more runtime in the same volume.
Jacobi Robotics
Berkeley company selling fast motion-planning and control software for industrial arms, spun out of university robotics research.
Nuro
Mountain View company that built purpose-made autonomous delivery vehicles and now licenses its autonomy stack to vehicle makers.
OSARO
San Francisco company supplying machine-learning perception and control software for warehouse piece-picking and packing robots.
DYNA Robotics
Builds task-specific robot arms driven by its own learned models, aimed at commercial jobs such as folding and food handling.
Starship Technologies
Operator of a large fleet of small autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, widely deployed on university campuses and in towns.
Bear Robotics
Redwood City maker of Servi, an autonomous serving robot used in restaurants and senior living, now part of the LG group.
Chef Robotics
San Francisco company deploying AI-driven robot arms that portion ingredients in high-volume food production kitchens.
Productive Robotics
California maker of the OB7 seven-axis collaborative robot, which is taught by demonstration rather than programmed.
Cyngn
Mountain View company selling DriveMod autonomous tuggers and an autonomy kit that retrofits industrial vehicles.
Serve Robotics
Publicly listed maker of sidewalk delivery robots operating with food-delivery platforms in several US cities.
Foundation
San Francisco startup building humanoid robots and the software stack to train them for industrial work.
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How many robotics companies are in California?
Humanoid Lab lists 42 robotics companies in California across 20 cities, led by San Francisco, Mountain View, Berkeley. New listings are added as we verify them.
Which cities in California have the most robotics companies?
San Francisco (9), Mountain View (5), Berkeley (4), Redwood City (4), Santa Clara (3).