Robotics Software & AI in California

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Robot Components

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

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

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

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.

Robotics Software & AI

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

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

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

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

Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

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

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

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

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

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