Robotics companies in Massachusetts

Waltham, MA / Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Long-running robotics company behind the Atlas humanoid, the Spot quadruped and the Stretch box-handling robot. It is owned by Hyundai and sells Spot and Stretch commercially.

Cambridge, MA / Research Labs

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, one of the largest academic labs working on robotics, manipulation, planning and machine learning.

Boston, MA / Robotics Software & AI

Boston company making motion-planning software and hardware that generates collision-free robot paths in real time and optimizes multi-robot work cells.

Newton, MA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

Newton company making the WAM backdrivable robot arm and BarrettHand, long-standing tools in manipulation research and rehabilitation robotics.

Bedford, MA / Home & Consumer Robots

Massachusetts company that made the Roomba the best-known home robot, with a line of robot vacuums and mops and its own navigation software.

Somerville, MA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

Massachusetts company making piece-picking robot systems that combine an adaptive gripper with grasp-selection AI for order fulfillment.

Natick, MA / Robot Components

Massachusetts machine-vision company making barcode readers, vision sensors and deep-learning inspection tools used alongside robots.

Wilmington, MA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

Massachusetts company building high-density automated warehouse systems with fleets of autonomous bots, deployed for large retailers.

Waltham, MA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

Massachusetts company making autonomous forklifts and pallet jacks with a workflow orchestration layer and remote operations support.

Bedford, MA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

Massachusetts supplier of robotic picking, sortation and mobile fulfillment systems for retailers, grocers and logistics providers.

Cambridge, MA / Research Labs

MIT lab behind the Cheetah and Mini Cheetah legged robots, researching high-speed locomotion, actuator design and dynamic control.

Beverly, MA / Robot Components

US arm of the maker of strain-wave gearing, supplying the compact zero-backlash gearheads and actuators used in robot joints.

Wilmington, MA / Cobots & Industrial Robots

Maker of autonomous mobile robots that guide warehouse workers through picking, sold as a subscription with fleet software.

Natick, MA / Robotics Software & AI

Maker of MATLAB and Simulink, including the Robotics System Toolbox used for modeling, control design and ROS integration.

Worcester, MA / Research Labs

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's robotics engineering department, which offered one of the first dedicated undergraduate robotics degrees in the US.

Waltham, MA / Robot Components

Waltham company making high-resolution tactile sensors that turn surface contact into a 3D image, used for robot touch and industrial inspection.

Cambridge, MA / Research Labs

Harvard lab developing soft wearable robots and exosuits that assist walking and arm movement for rehabilitation.

Charlestown, MA / Robotics Software & AI

Boston-area company building robots that unload floor-loaded trailers and containers alongside warehouse staff.