Robotics Software & AI
Robot foundation models and vision-language-action policies, simulation and synthetic data, perception stacks, fleet management, teleoperation and developer tooling.
Wayve
London company developing end-to-end learned driving intelligence intended to generalize across vehicles and cities rather than relying on hand-coded rules.
Cobalt AI
San Francisco Bay Area company that started with an indoor security robot and now sells AI monitoring that plugs into existing cameras and access control.
Micropsi Industries
Berlin company whose MIRAI software adds camera-based, adaptive motion to standard industrial robots so they can handle variation in position and shape.
Humanoid
London-based startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots and the learning stack to run them, with its first platform aimed at commercial pilots.
Physical Intelligence
Research company building general-purpose robot foundation models, publishing policies such as its pi series that control many different robot bodies.
Field AI
Builds field foundation models that let legged, wheeled and tracked robots navigate unmapped industrial and outdoor sites without GPS or prior maps.
Google DeepMind Robotics
DeepMind's robotics research group, publishing the Gemini Robotics vision-language-action models and demos of robots reasoning about physical tasks.
Mentee Robotics
Israeli company developing MenteeBot, a humanoid robot trained end to end with AI so it can be taught tasks by demonstration and natural language.
Dexmate
Santa Clara company building a mobile humanoid platform with dexterous arms and the learning software to make it useful in everyday environments.
Palladyne AI
Salt Lake City company, formerly part of Sarcos, selling AI software that lets existing robots and drones learn tasks with limited training data.
Duality AI
Builds the Falcon digital-twin simulator for generating synthetic training data and testing robot and drone perception before field deployment.
SLAMTEC
Shanghai maker of 2D lidar, navigation modules and mobile robot chassis used by service-robot builders.
Wandelbots
Dresden company offering software that lets engineers program industrial robots from any brand through a single interface and no-code tools.
Covariant
Built robot foundation models for warehouse picking, deployed on arms handling unfamiliar items. Much of its team joined Amazon in 2024.
Nimble Robotics
San Francisco company operating AI-run fulfillment centers with robotic picking and packing, offered as a service to e-commerce brands.
Olis Robotics
Seattle company selling remote monitoring and diagnostics software that helps operators recover industrial robots from faults quickly.
READY Robotics
Maker of ForgeOS, an operating system that lets one interface program robots from many different brands, sold with deployment support.
World Labs
Company building large world models that reconstruct and generate 3D scenes, aimed at spatial intelligence for machines and creators.
Ambi Robotics
Berkeley company whose AI-powered sorting robots handle parcels for logistics providers, built on university research into grasping.
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.
Flexiv
Maker of adaptive robot arms with direct force control, aimed at contact-rich tasks such as polishing, assembly and inspection.
Coppelia Robotics
Swiss developer of CoppeliaSim, a robot simulator with per-object control scripts used in education, research and prototyping.
DYNA Robotics
Builds task-specific robot arms driven by its own learned models, aimed at commercial jobs such as folding and food handling.
Flexion Robotics
Swiss company building learned control software that gives industrial robots force-aware, contact-rich manipulation skills.
RIOS Intelligent Machines
Builds AI-driven robotic work cells offered as a service for factory tasks such as packaging, kitting and machine tending.
Robust AI
Builds Carter, a collaborative mobile cart robot for warehouses, with software designed for people to work alongside it.
Anyware Robotics
Builds Pixmo, a mobile unloading robot with a built-in forklift base for container and trailer unloading in warehouses.
Tencent Robotics X
Tencent's robotics lab, publishing work on legged robots, dexterous manipulation and an embodied-intelligence platform.
Chef Robotics
San Francisco company deploying AI-driven robot arms that portion ingredients in high-volume food production kitchens.
Polymath Robotics
Builds autonomy and safety software for large off-highway vehicles such as tractors, loaders and industrial machines.
Hailo
Israeli chip company making edge AI processors that run neural networks on-device for robots, cameras and vehicles.
Cyngn
Mountain View company selling DriveMod autonomous tuggers and an autonomy kit that retrofits industrial vehicles.
Gideon
Croatian company making visually guided autonomous forklifts and mobile robots for warehouses and manufacturing.
Pickle Robot
Boston-area company building robots that unload floor-loaded trailers and containers alongside warehouse staff.