Top 38 Startups developing AI for Manufacturing

Updated: Nov 24, 2025
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These startups develop AI systems that can control factory robots, ensure safety measures and product quality, improve supply chain efficiency.
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Bright Machines
Country: USA | Funding: $437M
Bright Machines creates intelligent flexible factory robots to build AI infrastructure hardware for data centers. These modular, software-defined robotics execute high-precision assembly automation with ease and flexibility. For example they can do DIMM insertion, CPU and heatsink placement, GPU integration, storage systems assembly, connector handling, etc. The robot contains end-of-arm tools and integrated material feeding and conveying systems. The company develops the proprietary operating system that runs our robotics, AI-driven software that optimizes product design for automated assembly and Data Hub that manages rich production data our automation systems, with capabilities including secure data collection, transport, governance, storage and retrieval.
2
Dexterity
Country: USA | Funding: $291.2M
Dexterity provides dexterous robotic systems for logistics and supply chains, which allow customers to unlock the maximum value of their workforce by automating repetitive pick-pack tasks.
3
SparkCognition
Country: USA | Funding: $286.6M
SparkCognition engages in developing AI-Powered cyber-physical software for the safety, security, and reliability of IT, OT, and the IoT. SparkCognition builds artificial intelligence solutions for applications in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, finance, aerospace, defense, and security.
4
Path Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $271M
Path Robotics is focused on robotic welding. The system uses scanning, computer vision and AI to adjust itself to different parts, understanding that sizing parts is a kind of imperfect science.
5
Covariant
Country: USA | Funding: $222M
Covariant is building universal AI that allows robots to see, reason and act on the world around
6
Tractian
Country: Brazil | Funding: $183.7M
Tractian uses AI to monitor industrial equipment
7
Mujin
Country: Japan | Funding: $175.9M
Mujin develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory and logistics automation and increase worldwide productivity.
8
Buildots
Country: Israel | Funding: $166M
Buildots specializes in transforming construction sites into a data-driven digital environment. It is leveraging artificial intelligence computer vision technology to address construction inefficiencies.
9
Beyond Limits
Country: USA | Funding: $158.5M
Beyond Limits is an Industrial and Enterprise grade AI technology company that covers the full range of Artificial Intelligence capabilities
10
Rethink Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $149.5M
Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronics and more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor.
11
Urbint
Country: USA | Funding: $144M
Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen.
12
ForwardX Robotics
Country: China | Funding: $137.8M
ForwardX Robotics specializes in R&D of computer vision robots that apply to consumer and business products.
13
Peak
Country: UK | Funding: $117.7M
Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services.
14
Aquant
Country: Israel | Funding: $115.6M
Aquant‘s predictive AI technology monitors equipment, aggregates data, and helps spot equipment failure before it happens. The company’s systems operate across several verticals including Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Medical, HVAC, Communications, Computer and Office Equipment, and Home Appliances.
15
Versatile
Country: USA | Funding: $108.5M
Versatile is a construction tech company that has pioneered a new, non-intrusive way to capture site performance data. The data we capture from jobsites operations gives smart insights that support users to make better decisions. Decisions that improve budgets, speed up site production and sets new standards in safety, learning, and performance.
16
Instrumental
Country: USA | Funding: $80.3M
Instrumental uses vision-powered AI to detect manufacturing anomalies
17
ANYbotics
Country: Switzerland | Funding: €1.9M
ANYbotics leads the way in developing mobile robotics for industrial applications. Their autonomous legged robots solve customer problems in challenging environments so far only accessible to humans – and beyond that.
18
BrightAI
Country: USA | Funding: $66M
We leverage the capabilities of AI to transform physical entities into digital counterparts, driving business expansion and growth.
19
Landing AI
Country: USA | Funding: $57M
Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
20
Rapid Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $54.2M
Rapid Robotics automates common machine operator tasks to help manufacturers solve labor shortages, scale their business and outbid competitors.
21
Machina Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $48.3M
Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning.
22
EthonAI
Country: Switzerland | Funding: CHF22.6M
EthonAI is an AI-powered platform that detects and prevents quality defects in manufacturing.
23
Osperity
Country: USA | Funding: $25.6M
Osperity's technology provides AI-driven intelligent visual monitoring for industrial operations that can result in improved safety, reduced carbon footprints, and more.
24
Luminovo
Country: Germany | Funding: €20.5M
Luminovo is your co-pilot for the electronics supply chain. Electronics designers and manufacturers can monitor their design, manufacturing, and supplier data and automate design, quoting, and procurement decisions. This allows them to bring products to market faster, cheaper, and more sustainable, having a significant impact on profitability.
25
Invisible AI
Country: USA | Funding: $21.6M
Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company.
26
Quartic.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $21M
Quartic.ai is helping process manufacturing move to autonomous manufacturing. It provides a suite of purpose-built applications and workflows for batch and continuous manufacturing to increase adoption by users in Life Sciences, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, and energy. Quartic.ai has built proprietary sample-efficient AI to overcome the lack of large data needed for traditional machine learning.
27
Skymind
Country: USA | Funding: $17.8M
Skymind makes tools for prediction, data analytics and machine perception available to all businesses via open-core deep-learning.
28
RLWRLD
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩21B
RLWRLD is developing robotics foundation models that empower robots to operate autonomously in real-world settings.
29
ControlRooms.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $13.8M
ControlRooms is the AI-powered monitoring and observability tool for critical infrastructure.
30
SixSense
Country: Singapore | Funding: $12.2M
SixSense is an AI-powered defect analytics platform for smart manufacturing.
31
Silo AI
Country: Finland | Funding: €10M
Silo.AI is a private AI lab developing AI-driven services for smart devices, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Acquired by AMD
32
Odd Industries
Country: Chile | Funding: $6.2M
Odd builds Odd Vision, a computer vision platform that transforms offline processes into online data without friction.
33
Sciotex
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Sciotex is a Manufacturing AI Company and AI Consultant specializing in AI Computer Vision and Automated Test Equipment.
34
Aprex Solutions
Country: France | Funding: €2.1M
Aprex Solutions develops machine vision & image analysis systems for manufacturing and service companies
35
Ascalia
Country: Croatia | Funding: €1.2M
Ascalia helps manufacturing factories increase productivity using IoT and AI
36
Kaizntree
Country: USA
Kaizntree is the Next-Generation AI-powered operating software for small business owners to manage what they make and sell. Our mission is to empower small business owners to scale their product business by simplifying the inventory management process.
37
FactoryMind
Country: Norway
FactoryMind is the only AI driven digital twin platform for industrial innovation. Its novel integration of processes, AI modelling and many professions, brings the future of Manufacturing Execution (MES).
38
Industro Consulting
Country: Germany
Industro develops AI-powered surveillance and analytics solution designed for manufacturing and industrial businesses.
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro