Robotics companies in California

San Jose, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

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.

Mountain View, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Alphabet company building a software platform that makes industrial robots easier to program, with perception, motion planning and simulation as reusable building blocks.

Los Altos, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Toyota's US research arm, whose robotics group works on large behavior models, home-assistance robots and manipulation research shared through open publications.

Santa Clara, CA / Robot Components

Chip maker whose Jetson compute modules, Isaac simulation tools and GR00T robot foundation models are widely used by humanoid and mobile robot developers.

San Diego, CA / Robot Components

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.

San Francisco, CA / Robotics Software & AI

San Francisco company making tools for recording, visualizing and analyzing robotics data, widely used for debugging ROS and custom robot stacks.

Berkeley, CA / Research Labs

UC Berkeley's AI research center, a major source of robot learning research including reinforcement learning and vision-based manipulation.

Mountain View, CA / Home & Consumer Robots

California company building a home robot vacuum and mop that navigates with onboard cameras and processes its data locally for privacy.

Mountain View, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Supplies simulation, validation and autonomy software to vehicle and machine makers across automotive, defense and off-road equipment.

San Francisco, CA / Robot Components

Maker of the ZED stereo cameras and perception SDK used for depth, tracking and spatial mapping on robots and autonomous machines.

Stanford, CA / Research Labs

Stanford's AI lab, whose robotics groups work on manipulation, imitation learning and household robot research alongside core AI.

San Francisco, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

San Francisco startup building a home robot with arms that tidies and does chores, offered to early customers on a subscription.

Martinez, CA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

California maker of Stretch, a lightweight mobile manipulator sold to researchers and used in assistive and home-robot studies.

Union City, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Union City company building shared-autonomy forklifts that can run autonomously or be taken over remotely by a human operator.

Pasadena, CA / Research Labs

Jet Propulsion Laboratory's robotics group, building planetary rovers, sampling arms and autonomy for extreme environments.

Berkeley, CA / Research Labs

Berkeley lab researching robot grasping, cloud robotics and the Dex-Net grasp datasets and models used across the field.

Redwood City, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Redwood City company building physical-AI robots that load trucks, palletize and handle boxes in logistics facilities.

Sunnyvale, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Sunnyvale maker of autonomous security robots and emergency call boxes, offered to clients as a subscription service.

Santa Clara, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Santa Clara company building a mobile collaborative robot that moves and manipulates goods in warehouses and hospitals, designed without a humanlike form.

Thousand Oaks, CA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

California company offering warehouse picking robots and software as a subscription service tied to throughput.

San Francisco, CA / Robot Components

Publicly traded lidar manufacturer whose digital sensors are used in robotics, industrial automation, smart infrastructure and autonomous vehicles.

Santa Clara, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Santa Clara company building a mobile humanoid platform with dexterous arms and the learning software to make it useful in everyday environments.

Fremont, CA / Robot Components

Fremont maker of silicon-anode lithium cells with very high energy density, sold for drones, wearables and other weight-critical mobile systems.

La Jolla, CA / Research Labs

UC San Diego institute coordinating robotics research across engineering and cognitive science, including human-centered and safe autonomy work.

San Mateo, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Builds the Falcon digital-twin simulator for generating synthetic training data and testing robot and drone perception before field deployment.

Oak Park, CA / Home & Consumer Robots

California company making the Retriever, an assistive home robot that carries meals, laundry and supplies for people with limited mobility.

San Jose, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

San Jose company making the Relay autonomous delivery robot used in hospitals and hotels to carry supplies between floors and departments.

San Francisco, CA / Robotics Software & AI

San Francisco company operating AI-run fulfillment centers with robotic picking and packing, offered as a service to e-commerce brands.

Los Angeles, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Los Angeles company selling humanoid and bipedal robot platforms such as THEMIS along with proprioceptive actuators for legged robots.

Berkeley, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Berkeley company whose AI-powered sorting robots handle parcels for logistics providers, built on university research into grasping.

Fremont, CA / Robot Components

Fremont battery manufacturer building silicon-anode lithium-ion cells aimed at devices that need more runtime in the same volume.

Berkeley, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Berkeley company selling fast motion-planning and control software for industrial arms, spun out of university robotics research.

Mountain View, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Mountain View company that built purpose-made autonomous delivery vehicles and now licenses its autonomy stack to vehicle makers.

San Francisco, CA / Robotics Software & AI

San Francisco company supplying machine-learning perception and control software for warehouse piece-picking and packing robots.

Redwood City, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Builds task-specific robot arms driven by its own learned models, aimed at commercial jobs such as folding and food handling.

San Francisco, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Operator of a large fleet of small autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, widely deployed on university campuses and in towns.

Redwood City, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Redwood City maker of Servi, an autonomous serving robot used in restaurants and senior living, now part of the LG group.

San Francisco, CA / Robotics Software & AI

San Francisco company deploying AI-driven robot arms that portion ingredients in high-volume food production kitchens.

Carpinteria, CA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

California maker of the OB7 seven-axis collaborative robot, which is taught by demonstration rather than programmed.

Mountain View, CA / Robotics Software & AI

Mountain View company selling DriveMod autonomous tuggers and an autonomy kit that retrofits industrial vehicles.

Redwood City, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Publicly listed maker of sidewalk delivery robots operating with food-delivery platforms in several US cities.

San Francisco, CA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

San Francisco startup building humanoid robots and the software stack to train them for industrial work.