Top 101 Startups developing AI for Robotics
Nov 11, 2025
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These startups create AI-powered humanoid and non-humanoid robots that can autonomously implement intelligent tasks.
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Country: USA | Funding: $30M
MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing kit that’s about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate
MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing kit that’s about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate
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Country: USA | Funding: $411.3M
Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $266.1M
AMP Robotics creates robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
AMP Robotics creates robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
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Country: USA | Funding: $221M
Reimagining fulfillment with intelligent robots that can pick and pack anything.
Reimagining fulfillment with intelligent robots that can pick and pack anything.
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Country: USA | Funding: $93.6M
Scythe Robotics is revolutionizing how we take care of the outdoors.
Scythe Robotics is revolutionizing how we take care of the outdoors.
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Country: USA | Funding: $65.6M
Chef Robotics is a robotics and artificial intelligence company serving the food industry.
Chef Robotics is a robotics and artificial intelligence company serving the food industry.
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Country: USA | Funding: $56.9M
FORT Robotics is a safety and security platform designed to secure autonomous machines from cybersecurity attacks.
FORT Robotics is a safety and security platform designed to secure autonomous machines from cybersecurity attacks.
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Country: Singapore | Funding: $15.8M
Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.
Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.
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Country: USA | Funding: £2.9M
Fieldwork Robotics makes soft, selective, and autonomous harvesting robots.
Fieldwork Robotics makes soft, selective, and autonomous harvesting robots.
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Country: China | Funding: $2.3B
UBTECH Robotics dedicated to commercialize humanoid robot, making it walk out of the research institution and become available to ordinary people.
UBTECH Robotics dedicated to commercialize humanoid robot, making it walk out of the research institution and become available to ordinary people.
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Country: USA | Funding: $570M
Skydio is a robotics company that makes flying tools that free your hands and mind. The company's unique computer vision and motion planning algorithms coupled with the same cheap image sensors and processors in mobile phones give drones the ability to navigate intelligently with respect to their surroundings.
Skydio is a robotics company that makes flying tools that free your hands and mind. The company's unique computer vision and motion planning algorithms coupled with the same cheap image sensors and processors in mobile phones give drones the ability to navigate intelligently with respect to their surroundings.
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Country: France | Funding: $449.6M
Exotec offers an innovative order preparation system, based on a fleet of collaborative mobile robots.
Exotec offers an innovative order preparation system, based on a fleet of collaborative mobile robots.
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Country: USA | Funding: $437M
Bright Machines brings together intelligent software with flexible factory robots and machine learning to help our customers meet the growing demands of the next generation of manufacturing.
Bright Machines brings together intelligent software with flexible factory robots and machine learning to help our customers meet the growing demands of the next generation of manufacturing.
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Country: USA | Funding: $416M
Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce.
Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce.
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Country: USA | Funding: $393.7M
Apptronik specializes in human-centered robotic systems. These are robotics systems that operate in close proximity to humans.
Apptronik specializes in human-centered robotic systems. These are robotics systems that operate in close proximity to humans.
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Country: Japan | Funding: ¥44.6B
Preferred Networks develops technologies related to autonomous driving and connected cars. They also apply machine learning and deep learning to robotics and machine tools, and conduct research and development of object recognition, control, anomaly detection, and optimization technology, medical images such as CT and MRI, and develop systems to allow early diagnosis of cancer using blood samples.
Preferred Networks develops technologies related to autonomous driving and connected cars. They also apply machine learning and deep learning to robotics and machine tools, and conduct research and development of object recognition, control, anomaly detection, and optimization technology, medical images such as CT and MRI, and develop systems to allow early diagnosis of cancer using blood samples.
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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.
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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $287.7M
Starship Technologies develops self-driving delivery robots.
Starship Technologies develops self-driving delivery robots.
