Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers in California
Companies building full humanoid, biped, and general-purpose robots, from factory and warehouse workers to research platforms and social robots.
Figure
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.
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.
Weave Robotics
San Francisco startup building a home robot with arms that tidies and does chores, offered to early customers on a subscription.
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.
Dexmate
Santa Clara company building a mobile humanoid platform with dexterous arms and the learning software to make it useful in everyday environments.
Relay Robotics
San Jose company making the Relay autonomous delivery robot used in hospitals and hotels to carry supplies between floors and departments.
Westwood Robotics
Los Angeles company selling humanoid and bipedal robot platforms such as THEMIS along with proprioceptive actuators for legged robots.
Nuro
Mountain View company that built purpose-made autonomous delivery vehicles and now licenses its autonomy stack to vehicle makers.
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.
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.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How many humanoid & general-purpose robot makers are listed in California?
13 in California. See the statewide page for every robotics company in California regardless of category.