Robotics Software & AI
Robot foundation models and vision-language-action policies, simulation and synthetic data, perception stacks, fleet management, teleoperation and developer tooling.
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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.
Sanctuary AI
Canadian company building humanoid robots and the control software behind them, with a focus on dexterous hydraulic hands and teleoperation-to-autonomy pipelines for industrial tasks.
Galbot
Beijing company building wheeled humanoid robots for retail and service work, paired with its own grasping and manipulation models. It operates unmanned stores using its robots.
Viam
New York company offering a modular robotics platform that handles hardware abstraction, data capture and fleet management so teams can build robots without a custom stack.
Intrinsic
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.
AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics)
Chinese humanoid startup founded by a former Huawei engineer, producing the Yuanzheng and Lingxi robot lines along with open datasets and embodied-AI models.
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.
Open Robotics
Steward of ROS and Gazebo, the open-source middleware and simulator that much of the robotics industry builds on, alongside community events and support.
Realtime Robotics
Boston company making motion-planning software and hardware that generates collision-free robot paths in real time and optimizes multi-robot work cells.
NAVER LABS
Korean research subsidiary working on robotics, autonomous driving and spatial AI, including service robots deployed in its own headquarters building.
Hugging Face (LeRobot)
AI platform company whose LeRobot project publishes open robot learning models, datasets and low-cost robot designs; it also owns Pollen Robotics.
Foxglove
San Francisco company making tools for recording, visualizing and analyzing robotics data, widely used for debugging ROS and custom robot stacks.
PickNik Robotics
Boulder company behind MoveIt, the open-source motion planning framework, offering commercial manipulation software and engineering services.
Roboflow
Des Moines company providing computer-vision tooling: dataset labeling, model training and deployment used by robotics and inspection teams.
Vention
Montreal company offering a browser-based platform to design, simulate and order complete robot cells, with parts shipped ready to assemble.
Mujin
Japanese company making intelligent robot controllers and complete automation systems for palletizing, piece picking and truck unloading.
Luxonis
Denver company behind the OAK line of depth cameras that run computer vision on the device, widely used on mobile robots and robot arms.
RightHand Robotics
Massachusetts company making piece-picking robot systems that combine an adaptive gripper with grasp-selection AI for order fulfillment.
Brain Corp
Supplies the autonomy software and fleet cloud inside many commercial floor-cleaning and shelf-scanning robots sold under other brands.
Applied Intuition
Supplies simulation, validation and autonomy software to vehicle and machine makers across automotive, defense and off-road equipment.
Mech-Mind Robotics
Beijing company selling 3D cameras together with vision and motion-planning software for industrial picking, loading and assembly.
Stereolabs
Maker of the ZED stereo cameras and perception SDK used for depth, tracking and spatial mapping on robots and autonomous machines.
Formant
Cloud platform for operating robot fleets: telemetry, remote teleoperation, dashboards and data pipelines across mixed hardware.
Path Robotics
Columbus company making self-programming welding robots that scan a part, plan the weld and adapt without CAD or teach pendants.
InOrbit
Robot operations platform for monitoring and managing heterogeneous robot fleets, with analytics and remote intervention tools.
Plus One Robotics
San Antonio company providing vision software and remote human supervision for parcel-handling robots in logistics facilities.
Third Wave Automation
Union City company building shared-autonomy forklifts that can run autonomously or be taken over remotely by a human operator.
Bright Machines
Builds software-defined microfactories: modular robotic assembly cells with vision and AI aimed at electronics manufacturing.
Tangram Vision
Sells depth sensors together with calibration and perception software that keeps multi-sensor robot rigs aligned over time.
MathWorks
Maker of MATLAB and Simulink, including the Robotics System Toolbox used for modeling, control design and ROS integration.
Rerun
Stockholm company building an open-source visualization and data stack for multimodal robotics and computer-vision data.
Agile Robots
Munich company combining force-sensitive robot arms with vision and AI software for precision assembly and inspection.
Dexterity
Redwood City company building physical-AI robots that load trucks, palletize and handle boxes in logistics facilities.
Standard Bots
New York company making the RO1 six-axis robot arm with no-code and AI-assisted programming, built and sold in the US.
Skild AI
Pittsburgh-founded company training a general robot brain intended to transfer across quadrupeds, arms and humanoids rather than being tied to one platform.
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What counts as robotics software & ai?
Robot foundation models and vision-language-action policies, simulation and synthetic data, perception stacks, fleet management, teleoperation and developer tooling.
What are robotics software & ai?
Robot foundation models and vision-language-action policies, simulation and synthetic data, perception stacks, fleet management, teleoperation and developer tooling.
Can I buy a humanoid robot today?
A few companies sell or lease to businesses and research groups. Consumer availability is limited. Each maker's site states its current status.