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Top Robotics Companies

Top Robotics Companies

Robotics is driving automation across industries in 2023, amplifying productivity and enhancing precision. It continues to revolutionize healthcare, aid in disaster response, and expand our exploration frontiers. Robotics today is shaping a safer, more efficient, and technologically advanced world.

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Top Robotics Companies

Best Companies in Robotics 2023

This year’s Top Robotics Companies were selected based on data given by employees and leadership for their company profile on Powderkeg, supplemented with publicly available third-party data.
Adranos
West Lafayette - Adranos Energetics develops propellants, explosives, and other energetic materials for use in space and military platforms. It is currently developing a cost-effective solid rocket propellant that is more efficient, more powerful, and better for the environment than traditional solid rocket propellants. Its proprietary solid propellant, ALITEC, simultaneously increases rocket performance and eliminates the harmful hydrochloric acid (“HCl”) emissions of traditional, aluminum-based propellants. It provides a competitive advantage for its military users by extending missile range and enabling smaller, more affordable missiles. It will also enhance the capabilities of its space launch users by expanding payload capacity and lowering the cost of space access.
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Aethon
Pittsburgh - ST Engineering, Aethon is a global autonomous mobile robotics company in the healthcare and hospitality markets. We engineer and sell solutions to automate the transportation of goods and supplies. Our products and designed and built in Pittsburgh, PA and our people are passionate about using robotic technology to automate material movement and delivery to improve efficiency, labor utilization and safety. With operations in the US and Asia, Aethon autonomous mobile robot makes over 5 million deliveries annually in customer facilities around the globe. We have been featured in Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., CNBC, 60 Minutes and Fox News. Our parent company, ST Engineering, is based in Singapore.
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AION Prosthetics
AION Prosthetics develops a prosthetic system designed to provide an adjustable, durable, and affordable future for amputees.
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Alienware Corporation
Miami - Alienware Corporation manufactures computer desktops, notebooks, media center, professional and recertified systems, and gear shop accessories. Its products are used by gaming, home life, entertainment, business, and government customers in the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. It has a call center in Costa Rica, as well as facilities in Ireland and Australia. As of May 8, 2006, Alienware Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Dell, Inc.
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American Robotics
Marlborough - American Robotics is an industrial drone developer that specializes in rugged, real-world environments. Through innovations in robot autonomy, machine vision, edge computing, and AI it has created a fully-automated drone capable of continuous, unattended operation. In January 2021, American Robotics became the first company approved by the FAA to operate fully-automated drones with no humans on-site, representing an historic milestone for the commercial drone industry. The company was founded by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford roboticists with a shared vision for bringing robotic technology out of the lab and into the real world. American Robotics was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
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Apptronik
Apptronik builds and designs human-centered robotics systems.
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ARTIAL
ARTIAL is building AI-driven software to make drones fully autonomous for inspection and monitoring indoor and outdoor areas.
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Atarraya
Making shrimp the future of protein
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Ateios
Indianapolis - Advanced Battery Manufacturing and Material Solutions
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Atom Limbs
The first artificial human arm, giving 65M+ limb-different people their limbs back. Atom's mission is to unlock human lifespan.
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Atomos Space
Denver - Atomos Space is an aerospace company building and developing orbital transfer vehicles and space nuclear technology. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
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Atom Power
Huntersville - Atom Power designs and manufactures a suite of intelligent products including a circuit breaker, distribution panel, and software that enables complete control and customization of electrical infrastructure for commercial and industrial applications. Atom Power’s product suite includes a circuit breaker (Atom Switch), distribution panel (Atom Panel), and software (Atom OS) that can intelligently control the flow of electricity to and from buildings and things. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Berkshire Grey
Bedford - Berkshire Grey develops a materials handling system intended to automate omnichannel fulfillment. Its system utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and novel sensing to deploy intelligent robotic systems that automate tasks never before performed by machines in commercial settings, enabling customers to achieve higher accuracy and throughput speeds than traditional approaches as well as handle the broadest assortment of products, packaging, and parcels with ease.
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BirdBrain Technologies
Pittsburgh - BirdBrain Technologies LLC is devoted to cultivating creativity and computational thinking by providing flexible and inspiring products that engage students & teachers in programming and robotics. BirdBrain is the maker of the Finch Robot and the Hummingbird Robotics Kit. The Finch is a small robot designed to inspire and delight students learning computer science by providing them a tangible physical representation of their coding. The Hummingbird is a kit that allows students to create and program robots built from electronic components and craft materials. Their products have been used by tens of thousands of students to explore computer programming, learn poetry, host robot petting zoos, create combined physical & virtual games, and much, much more! BirdBrain Technologies is proud to be located in Pittsburgh, PA, also known as Roboburgh due to its fantastic assemblage of robotics companies and research. Much of that research goes on at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, from where BirdBrain Technologies emerged. The Finch and the Hummingbird were initially developed to support parallel research projects at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab. Our founder’s Ph.D thesis discusses the design process and philosophy behind the research leading to the creation of the Finch and Hummingbird, which stemmed from a desire to expand the concept of robotics, making it more universally appealing. A large part of our mission is to support educators interested in introducing or furthering computer science, engineering, and making in and out of the classroom. Our products are good tools in support of this mission, but they are worthless without the work of thousands of teaching professionals and volunteers. Let us know how they can support you and your students, through product improvements, curricular materials, new tutorials, professional development, or any other way. Together, they can bring more creativity, computational thinking, and fun to kids around the world!
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Blue Horseshoe Solutions
Carmel - Blue Horseshoe provides consulting services for system implementation and integration. It offers services ranging from consulting to building and implementing supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, warehouse management, and transportation management systems. Blue Horseshoe also provides material handling equipment and installation services, such as distribution design, layout, and installation of new and pre-owned industrial storage and material handling products, as well as custom applications. It serves food and beverage, third party logistics, retail, wholesale distribution, healthcare providers, healthcare distribution, and manufacturing industries. Blue Horseshoe began operation in 2001. It has its headquarters in Carmel in Indiana.
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Boston Dynamics
Waltham - Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation. The company began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where National Academy of Engineering member Marc Raibert and his colleagues first developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals. Organizations worldwide, from DARPA, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps to Sony Corporation turn to Boston Dynamics for advice and for help creating the most advanced robots on Earth. In addition, Boston Dynamics is the home of DI-Guy, real-time Human Simulation, and Artificial Intelligence software, the leading solution in the VizSim market.
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BoxUp
Terre Haute - BoxUp is realizing the power of web to print with the creation of a digital platform to empower businesses, organizations and individuals to bring new levels of customization to their corrugated packaging.
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bttn.
bttn. offers subscription-based ordering on direct-from-manufacturer medical supplies.
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Carbon Origins
Carbon Origins is a virtual reality VR telerobotics platform.
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Carnegie Robotics
Pittsburgh - Carnegie Robotics is a leading provider of advanced robotics sensors and platforms for defense, agriculture, mining, infrastructure and energy applications. CRL was founded by Dr. John Bares and several colleagues in May 2010 as a spinout of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), the world’s premier research and development organization for advanced field robotics, machine vision and autonomy. Dr. Bares recognized that field robotics markets would not reach their potential until companies emerged who could effectively engineer, manufacture, supply and support the critical sensors, software and components that form robotic systems.
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Contact CI
Personal hands-on interaction with the virtual world is achievable with our next generation VR user input, Maestro controller.
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Continuous Composites
Continuous Composites offers the most advanced composites and additive manufacturing solution, Continuous Fiber 3D printing (CF3D).
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Contoro Robotics
Contoro Robotics combines AI and human intelligence with teleoperation.
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Copper Mountain Technologies
Copper Mountain Technologies develops innovative RF test and measurement solutions for engineers worldwide. Our development and production teams create solutions that enable RF and Microwave engineers to extend their reach through access to lab-grade instruments at affordable prices.
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Crow Industries
Crow Industries provides advances geomatics services to the mining industry.
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EarthSense
EarthSense is an agricultural intelligence for a sustainable planet.
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Echodyne Corp.
Kirkland - Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne's patented technology and powerful software create a high-performance radar platform that produces security and machine autonomy solutions for government, defense, and industry. Echodyne was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.
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Elementary Robotics
South Pasadena - Elementary is a full-stack robotics startup that tackles Machine Learning for robotic hardware from the ground up with the goal to create assistive tools to improve the human output of repetitive tasks. The company's easy-to-use software, deep learning AI, and camera systems are built to capture visual data, deliver fast and reliable real-time judgments, and provide lasting value to the business. Elementary builds a hardware and software platform for applying machine learning and computer vision for intelligent automation of quality and traceability workflows in manufacturing and logistics. Elementary Robotics was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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Elroy Air
Elroy Air is a logistics company that specializes in the fields of logistics, robotics, and air transportation.
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Evolve Additive Solutions
Minnetonka - Evolve Additive Solutions is a unique additive manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2017 by Shane Glenn and Steve Chillscyzn and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States.
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Fantasmo.io
Fantasmo builds a decentralized, open source stack for indoor and outdoor 3D maps and camera-based positioning.
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First Mode
Seattle - First Mode is revolutionizing the design, engineering, and development of technology for industries on and off the planet. First Mode harnesses the tools and technologies developed for the robotic exploration of the solar system and adapts them to mission critical and safety critical projects on Earth, Mars, the Moon, and other planetary bodies.
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Fort Robotics
Philadelphia - FORT Robotics makes wireless safety systems for dangerous machines. Formerly part of HRI, FORT is a VC-backed company built on more than a decade of experience in safety technology. FORT Robotics is building a first-of-its-kind safety and security platform for smart machines. FORT’s mission is to unlock the full potential of automation by accelerating development, reducing risk, and building trust in autonomous systems.
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Four Growers
Turtle Creek - Four Growers is an industrial automation platform that develops harvesting robots for greenhouses, starting with the harvesting of tomatoes. However, their solution is not only capable of harvesting the tomatoes, but also of performing a quality check and of packaging.
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Fox Robotics
Austin - Fox Robotics is a platform the engineers and manufactures autonomous forklifts that specialize in trailer unloading.
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Framework
Burlingame - The time has come for products that are designed to last. Our first product, the Framework Laptop, is a thin, light, high-performance notebook that is upgradeable, customizable, and repairable in unprecedented ways.
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Glowforge
Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.
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Guardhat
Detroit - Guardhat is a multi-product, feature-packed intelligent safety system that integrates cutting edge wearable technology and advanced proprietary software. It is equipped to detect, alert and help prevent hazardous industrial work-related incidents. It is designed to collect and analyze data to support and improve industrial worker safety programs.
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Humatics
Waltham - Humatics’ breakthrough microlocation system and analytics software comprise a Spatial Intelligence Platform™ that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. A single Humatics system, using simple, inexpensive radio-frequency technology, can pinpoint multiple, moving transponder targets at ranges up to thirty meters with millimeter-scale precision, vastly outperforming existing systems at a fraction of the cost. These systems can network together to provide broader, ultra-precise positioning coverage – from factory work cells to entire distribution centers and beyond. With its extensible architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Spatial Intelligence Platform™ will power an ecosystem of new position-based products and services. Humatics was founded in 2015 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Mindell and technology industry veteran Gary Cohen. Headquartered in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Humatics has grown to include a world-class team of radar experts, programmers, roboticists, software engineers, and product development leaders.
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Integro Technologies
Salisbury - Integro Technologies is a turnkey, machine vision integrator. Here at Integro, we design and develop custom machine vision inspection solutions utilizing a range of components from high resolution cameras, optical & Illumination systems, material handling, robotics, and 3D vision system applications for automated quality control checks, 3D surface inspection, defect detection, classification, gauging, batch sorting, VGR, ID, optical character recognition, and more. Integro Technologies has been recognized by Control Engineering the 2017 System Integrator of the Year and as a "System Integrator Giant" for seven consecutive years. Integro has been twice named by the Charlotte Business Journal as a "Fast 50" and an "Emerging Leader" in the Charlotte-region, and is currently an Inc 5000 company.
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inVia Robotics
Westlake Village - inVia Robotics provides the next generation of robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains. As the developer of the world's first "Robotics-as-a-Service" autonomous mobile robot picking and goods-to-person system, inVia is powering the future of warehouse productivity without disrupting the ecosystem of a business's operations.
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i-PRO
Kadoma-shi - The Power of Truth - We are a global leader of advanced sensing technologies.
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KEF Robotics
ARSENAL - KEF Robotics is a software startup based in Pittsburgh, PA. We focus on developing technologies to accelerate the deployment of UAV autonomy for applications in defense and aerospace. Co-founded by Kerry Snyder, Eric Amoroso and Fraser Kitchell in 2018, KEF has extensive experience in robotics research and development and commercialization, and is a leading team in Lockheed Martin's AlphaPilot Challenge.
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Kray Technologies
Kray Protection - the most efficient form of crop protection application. It is industrial productivity drone built by Kray Technologies.
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Legrand AV Brands
Eden Prairie - Milestone AV Technologies is a leading global provider of innovative mounting and display solutions for various audiovisual technologies. Our innovative products, sold principally under the Chief, Sanus, Da-Lite, and Projecta brand names, are sold through numerous channels, including Pro AV dealers, regional home theater dealers, consumer electronics retailers, mass merchants and original equipment manufacturers. The Company currently serves a broad base of over 4,500 global customers with a US headquarters just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Level Home
Level Home is a startup that specializes in home automation and smart home control.
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LiquiGlide
LiquiGlide is a viable technology that allows viscous liquids to slide effortlessly.
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Loadzpro
Loadzpro is a On Demand Trucking App connecting shippers of heavy items to reviewed Transportation Providers Domestically & Internationally
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Locomation
Locomation develops safe and reliable autonomous trucking solutions.
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Lucid Drone
Charlotte - At Lucid, we develop purpose-built drones tailored to meet societal needs through improved safety and efficiency. Check out our current drone models the C1 - Exterior Cleaning Drone and the D1 - Disinfecting Drone!
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Mach
Mach brings innovative autonomy solutions to OEM's looking to advance technology on their machinery.
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MacroFab
Houston - MacroFab is a marketplace for electronics manufacturing from prototype to high scale production. Their platform is re-shaping the $480B contract manufacturing market by transforming the experience from a manual, time-intensive, and error-prone process performed by large teams of people, into a real-time, streamlined, and connected software-driven experience while providing access to unlimited factory capacity in North America. The platform also uploads a PCB board design, gets an instant quote and the board is printed in the company's factory, enabling startups, manufacturers, and enterprises to design, customize and automate the PCB manufacturing process and save time, effort and money. Macrofab was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Mast Reforestation
Mast Reforestation is the only vertically integrated reforestation company in the U.S that restores forestland damaged by wildfires.
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Mira
Los Angeles - Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies. Its compliance software enables simple authoring of workflows and procedures on the company's web platform thereby leading to lower friction from mobile device management and information technology. The company deploys accessible and scalable AR solutions to enhance safety and oversight in industrial environments such as in the manufacturing of chemical explosives and maintenance of military equipment. Mira was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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Miso Robotics
Pasadena - Miso Robotics develops and manufactures artificial intelligence-driven robots that assist chefs to make food at restaurants. The robots help chefs in preparation work, grilling, frying, and final assembly in commercial kitchens. The company offers Flippy, a burger-grilling robot, which grabs unwrapped burger patties, moves them into position on a hot grill, keeps track of each burger’s cook-time and temperature, then alerts human cooks when it’s time to apply cheese or other toppings. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Pasadena, California.
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Misty Robotics Inc.
Boulder - Misty Robotics, a spinoff of Sphero, is a hardware company that builds personal robots for homes and offices. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Misty Robotics is building the robot for everyone. Misty Robotics’ vision is to put personal robots in every home and office. These robots will be seen and treated as our friends, our teammates, and a part of our families -- performing helpful tasks, providing safety, and interacting with humans in entertaining and friendly ways that have only been seen before in science fiction.
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Modular Robotics
Boulder - Modular Robotics makes robot construction kits made of modular magnetic blocks that can be assembled to create small self-powered robots. They combine sensors, logic, and actuator blocks that young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behavior. Cubelets are 40mm plastic cubes with magnetic connectors, just pick them up and start building. MOSS connects using steel spheres and lets kids make robots that slither, drive, and glow. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.
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Nivriti Solutions Global Private Limited
SaaS Supply Chain Management
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Numurus
Software for robotic, smart sensing, and Edge-AI applications
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OhmniLabs
San Jose - OhmniLabs makes affordable easy-to-use, and useful home personal robots for elder care
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Ozobot
Redondo Beach - Ozobot makes coding robots for the next generation of creators. Evo and Bit are one inch robots packed with technology that can be coded two ways: online with the OzoBlockly code editor and screen-free with Ozobot’s patented Color Codes. Evo is app-connected and updatable, a creative companion that grows with you and empowers you to play games, create with code, and share your ideas. Bit, the original Ozobot, was launched in 2014 as a great way to get started learning and loving robots. Ozobot’s robots are used in over 10,000 schools and the company’s mission is to inspire children to take the leap from consuming technology to creating technology.
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Path Robotics
Columbus - Path Robotics specializes in robotics, automation, and software and database solutions. It develops methods to solve general problems and apply what they develop to manufacturing. They think about how to make machines learn, adapt, and solve problems. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
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Peer Robotics
Peer Robotics is an industrial automation company that provides an easier and cost efficient way to integrate and deploy mobile robots.
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pepr
Pepr is an online platform that provides food cost management software for restaurants on multiple platforms.
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Picnic
Seattle - Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions. Vivid Robotics, Inc. Picnic(hellopicnic.com), has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.
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QuantumScape
QuantumScape is a renewable energy company that develops solid-state battery technology to increase the range of electric cars.
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RDI Technlogies
Knoxville - RDI has developed and patented a technology platform capable of measuring motion, vibration, and displacement not visible to the human eye. We utilize standard video camera technology in conjunction with our methods and processing algorithms to extract meaningful data. This technology virtually turns every pixel in the camera's view into a sensor capable of measuring vibration or motion with sub pixel accuracy. The results naturally lend themselves to a visualization of the motion and several unique market segments. The opportunities are endless as we can measure and quantify anything that a camera can see. RDI is focused on serving 3 major markets: Vital Signs monitoring of infants-adults, Structural Health Monitoring, and Machine Condition Monitoring.
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READY Robotics
Columbus - READY Robotics enables manufacturers to more easily deploy robots to the factory floor through a patented technology platform that combines a very easy to use programming interface and plug'n'play hardware. The company encourages manufacturers to be more competitive through the line of intuitive-to-use, easy to control industrial robotic software called Forge, which is a suite of products that requires minimum installation effort, no robotic or programming experience necessary. READY Robotics was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
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Realtime Robotics
Boston - Realtime Robotics is a developer of a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds. They are transforming automation in its broadest sense by enabling machines to recognize, respond and decide how and where to move in milliseconds, even in variable environments. Their RapidPlan processor harnesses cutting-edge computer processing and software to end the trade-off between speed and safety that’s holding automation back today. Realtime Robotics is resolving these limitations with specialized hardware enabling fast, collision-free motion in unstructured environments, enabling vastly broader applications of robotics in industry, and autonomous vehicles that drive naturally, enabling more rapid adoption and proliferation.
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Rethink Robotics
Bochum - 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. With Rethink Robotics, manufacturers increase flexibility, lower costs and can invest in skilled labor—all advantages in fueling continuous innovation and sustainable competitive advantage. Committed to accelerating robotics innovation in manufacturing and beyond, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter Research Robot gives academic and corporate research environments a humanoid robot platform with integrated sensors and an open software development kit for creating custom applications. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is funded by Bezos Expeditions, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Two Sigma Ventures.
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Revolute Robotics
Revolute Robotics is an automation manufacturing company that provides aerial and ground robots for inspection, mapping, and surveillance.
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RipeLocker
RipeLocker is an agtech company that develops containers designed to extend the life of perishables.
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Roboto AI
Roboto AI is a technology business that accelerates the search, transformation, and analysis of robotics data.
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SAAM Inc.
Smart Home Life Saving Technology
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Sabanto
Farming-as-a-Service using low-cost autonomous machines
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Seasats
Seasats: Effortless ocean data.
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Sense
Cambridge - Sense, a technology company, provides home energy monitoring solutions for its customers. The company specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Shapeways
New York - Shapeways is a 3D printing marketplace and community. The NY-based company harnesses 3D printing to help anyone turn ideas into a physical reality, making product design more accessible, personal, and inspiring. Shapeways prints everything on-demand, which means that every order is customized and personalized. By providing a platform for community members to gain access to cutting-edge 3D printing technology and share their designs with the world, Shapeways is democratizing creation for everyone. Headquartered in New York with offices in Eindhoven and Seattle, Shapeways is a spin-out of the lifestyle incubator of Royal Philips Electronics. Investors include Union Square Ventures in New York and Index Ventures in London.
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Soft Robotics
Bedford - Soft Robotics opens new markets to automation through the application and commercialization of its proprietary soft robotics technology. The business end of a robotic arm is the gripper. The March 2105 edition of Modern Materials Handling best describes the challenge when they wrote: “Perhaps more than any other element of robotic development in warehousing and distribution, the end-of-arm tooling, or gripper, is the place that can make or break a robot’s success.” Advancing gripper technology is the key to unlocking a new age of automation. An age where they can automate tote pick and pack for grocery distribution, bin picking of soft and delicate parts, e-commerce order fulfillment, fruit harvesting, luggage handling, and consumer goods packaging. The US fresh produce packing market alone represents a $27 billion retail market searching for automation solutions. Soft Robotics has demonstrated the ability to bring robotic product handling and packaging to this market. These are problems of adaptability, complexity, and cost. The search for a more adaptable gripper has driven up the complexity of design to devices like servo grippers and complicated tool changing requirements. This complexity comes at a high price in gripper cost, the need for larger arms, and complex software and hardware integration. Their revolutionary soft robotic technology, covered by more than 40 patents and applications, enables us to design and manufacture soft robotic hands that address the new unstructured world of automation and logistics. Through their propriety knowledge of actuator geometry, material selection, and operating envelope, they can tune actuators to be force limiting with NO CLOSED LOOP FEEDBACK system required. Soft Robotics brings the highest level of adaptability, while lowering system complexity and total system cost. The adaptive nature of their technology allows a single grasper to handle an unprecedented range of objects, regardless of shape, size, or weight, with no tool or software changes between cycles. We’ve demonstrated the ability to grasp bags of rice, raw food, bars of soap, boxes of toothpaste, and clothing all with a single device. But soft does not mean weak. Their technology has the ability to scale from the smallest to the largest task. The result is an automation solution that can pack a tote for retail distribution, pick fruit off the vine, or easily handle a ten pound kettle bell. They have demonstrated the speed and precision necessary to integrate into the factories and warehouses of today and the future, operating at speeds up to 130 picks per minute.Their system is plug and play with the most common industrial robots using industry standard protocols and vision systems.They have designed the system to be “robot and vision agnostic,” allowing the system to quickly and seamlessly integrate with the full range of robots, from small collaborative systems to high speed industrial packing cells. Soft Robotics launched their industrial product at Automate 2015 in March 2015, Their produce handling system in June 2015, and started shipping in June 2015. They are now selling systems to their pilot customers. Soft Robotics is foundational technology that solves the problems of today and unlocks the future of automation.
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SoftWear Automation
Austell - SoftWear Automation, Inc. is an Atlanta-based machine vision and advanced robotics startup disrupting the $1.1 trillion apparel and textile industry. The company’s revolutionary, patented, fully-automated Sewbot technology was developed over nine years of R&D in collaboration with Georgia Tech and funding from DARPA, the Walmart Foundation, and Private Venture Capital.
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SparkFun
Niwot - SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make electronics projects possible. Whether it's a robot that can cook your breakfast or a GPS cat tracking device, SparkFun products and resources are designed to make the world of electronics more accessible to the average person. In addition to products, SparkFun also offers classes and a number of online tutorials designed to help educate individuals in the wonderful world of embedded electronics.
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Takeoff Technologies
Waltham - Takeoff is helping grocers thrive in e-Commerce. Its automated grocery fulfillment solution was created by grocers, for grocers. It is the only eGrocery model that helps grocers not only embrace eGroceries, but thrive in an online grocery market. Together, it can lower users' last-mile and assembly costs, giving them the flexibility that they need to grow with their customers. The time is ripe for e-Groceries!
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Tempo Automation
Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
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TerraClear
Picking rock is hard work. TerraClear makes it easy.
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The Boring Company
The Boring Company engages in constructing underground transportation networks.
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ThorDrive
ThorDrive is a company that developes software solutions related to automated and unmanned technology.
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Thread
Thread specializes in enterprise-scale autonomous data collection that delivers precise inspection insights.
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Tomahawk Robotics
Tomahawk Robotics creates safe robotic solutions for unmanned systems in stressful and harsh environments.
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Treeswift
Treeswift utilizes robotic and machine learning technology to build forestry tools.
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TrueNorth
San Francisco - TrueNorth aims to fix inefficiencies in the independent, yet fragmented, trucking industry. TrueNorth, established by Stedge and Sanjaya Wijeratne, develops software that puts “independent truckers under one roof.” While TrueNorth doesn’t lease trucks, it helps truckers have a platform to manage insurance, fuel, and maintenance. TrueNorth also helps truckers with route optimization, dispatch and load coordination, and automated tracking.
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Vecna Robotics
Waltham - Vecna Robotics delivers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions featuring self-driving vehicles operated by our learning Autonomy Stack. Our solutions deliver value for customers in the distribution, e-commerce, warehousing, and manufacturing sectors. Our unique orchestration engine technology, Pivot.al, allows diverse robot types and humans to work together seamlessly and to flexibly yield an adaptive business solution, capable of meeting the increasingly unpredictable market needs. Our technology goes beyond traditional automation and focuses on maximizing human and robot capability to create fulfilling jobs, increase productivity, and encourage innovation. For more information visit www.vecnarobotics.com or contact team@vecnarobotics.com
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Vectech, Inc.
Vectech's AI diagnostic entomology system identifies damaging insects that spread disease and cause agricultural or economic loss.
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Veo Robotics
Waltham - Veo Robotics is transforming manufacturing with products that incorporate advanced computer vision, 3D sensing, and AI. Their first product lets high-performance industrial robots work collaboratively with people to enable much more flexible, productive, and efficient manufacturing workcells.
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WiBotic Inc.
Seattle - WiBotic provides the most reliable wireless power and battery intelligence solutions to charge your aerial, mobile and aquatic robot systems. Using WiBotic wireless power and battery intelligence solutions, you can greatly enhance the working efficiency of your robot fleets and save significant money in charging and maintenance costs. Our solutions include wireless power delivery, battery intelligence and fleet-level power management software. So we not only maximize the battery life of each battery we charge, we create an operational plan for the entire collection of batteries in your robot fleet. WiBotic wireless power and battery intelligence solutions are safe, reliable and scalable. And they are easy-to-implement and highly customizable for specific robot deployments.
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Robotics in the 21st Century

Over the last century, the robotics industry has transformed our society; yet, robotics work isn’t mainstream and most robotics companies aren’t household names.

Robotics refers to the merging of computer science and different fields within engineering to create and use utilitarian robots. And, robotics companies have typically sold B2B products, up until recent years. Most operate in the background of businesses where consumers and customers don’t see their use. For example, in 1961 Ford began using robots on their assembly floors to speed up construction of vehicles, reach places that human arms couldn’t fit and get exact, error-free measurements. Nowadays, robots are making their way onto the frontlines of several industries, not just automobile manufacturing.

The robotics industry has accelerated dramatically in the last decade to make its way into the consumer devices and home goods spaces. Leading tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google have voice-recognition devices that act as assistants inside your home. They play music, read the news, report the weather, answer questions, among other mundane tasks. Even with voice-recognition devices, society has seen a massive transformation and innovation in a short amount of time.

Robotics companies are changing the way we manufacture products, deliver goods, and live our lives. Some well-known and even publicly traded robotics companies include SoftBank (SFTBY), iRobot, Amazon and Stryker.

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SoftBank Robotics’s acquisition of Boston Dynamics in 2017 from Google set off a flurry of innovations and viral videos depicting robots acting, moving and even dancing shockingly similar to humans. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based robotics company was sold for more than $1 billion in late 2020 to Hyundai to build out their robotics division. Despite its sale to Hyundai, SoftBank still maintains its spot among the top robotics companies in the world with a heavy presence and investing arm in the industry.

Founded in 1990, Boston-headquartered iRobot invented the robot vacuum with which you may be familiar – Roomba. iRobot has leaped to the top of their class thanks to pop culture appearances in Hollywood movies and shows, such as Parks and Recreation. Their focus is on in-home robots to help with cleaning, dusting and other household chores.

Beyond in-home voice-recognition devices, Amazon’s use of robotics extends to their warehouses and in the future, to the skies. Currently, Amazon warehouses utilize robots to organize, transport and package products in a timely, inexpensive way. In now-viral videos, thousands of package-carrying robots zip around warehouses miraculously without running into each other. Soon, Amazon wants FAA approval for drones to deliver packages even faster to their customers than their current two-day response time. By building hundreds of fulfillment centers around the country, Amazon has made their distribution points as close as possible to each customer’s home. Therefore, allowing autonomous drones and other delivery vehicles to make quick deliveries.

But there’s more to the robotics industry than foreign and Silicon Valley giants. Discover the companies making a name for themselves in the Unvalley below.

Robotics Companies That are Hiring

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Relativity Space
Long Beach - Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets. As a vertically integrated technology platform, Relativity is at the forefront of an inevitable shift toward software-defined manufacturing by fusing 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. It offers a radically simplified supply chain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Relativity Space is backed by leading investors including Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. Jordan Noone and Tim Ellis co-founded the company in Long Beach, California in 2016.
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iRobot
Bedford - iRobot designs and builds robots that empower people to do more. The company's home robots help people find smarter ways to clean and accomplish more in their daily lives. iRobot's portfolio of solutions features proprietary technologies for the connected home and advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. iRobot was founded in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists with the vision of making practical robots a reality. iRobot's home robots are revolutionizing the way people clean – inside and out. More than 15 million home robots have been sold worldwide. The award-winning iRobot Roomba® Vacuum Cleaning Robot is leading the charge. Roomba made practical robots a reality for the first time and showed the world that robots are here to stay. iRobot's acclaimed line of home robots also includes the iRobot Scooba® Floor Scrubbing Robot, the iRobot Braava™ Floor Mopping Robot, the iRobot Mirra™ Pool Cleaning Robot and the iRobot Looj® Gutter Cleaning Robot. In 2015, iRobot generated $617 million in revenue and employed more than 600 of the robot industry's top professionals, including mechanical, electrical and software engineers and related support staff. iRobot stock trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol IRBT. iRobot's corporate headquarters are located in Bedford, Mass. The company also has offices in California, the United Kingdom, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Humatics
Waltham - Humatics’ breakthrough microlocation system and analytics software comprise a Spatial Intelligence Platform™ that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. A single Humatics system, using simple, inexpensive radio-frequency technology, can pinpoint multiple, moving transponder targets at ranges up to thirty meters with millimeter-scale precision, vastly outperforming existing systems at a fraction of the cost. These systems can network together to provide broader, ultra-precise positioning coverage – from factory work cells to entire distribution centers and beyond. With its extensible architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Spatial Intelligence Platform™ will power an ecosystem of new position-based products and services. Humatics was founded in 2015 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Mindell and technology industry veteran Gary Cohen. Headquartered in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Humatics has grown to include a world-class team of radar experts, programmers, roboticists, software engineers, and product development leaders.
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FLX Solutions
Bethlehem - Solving real world problems with cutting edge robotics.
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Perceptive Automata
Boston - Perceptive Automata is solving what is often described as the hardest of the hard problems for automated driving: human behavior prediction technology for the safe large-scale rollout of highly automated (L2/3) and autonomous (L4/5) vehicles, especially in urban areas. The company enables those vehicles to understand what people might do next so they can navigate safely and smoothly around humans, including pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers. The level of understanding of our human-like AI goes well beyond what standard physics-based approaches can deliver, including information that can’t be gained any other way. Importantly, in addition to increased safety, we enable a much more natural and smooth human-like driving of L4/5 autonomous vehicles. This is essential for autonomous vehicles to be accepted into a human-dominated road environment and also by passengers of robotaxi services. Without this capability autonomous vehicles simply will not function well enough. Perceptive Automata is working with OEMs, suppliers, and tech companies that are building or integrating ADAS and autonomous driving systems. The team is comprised of Harvard, MIT, and Stanford neuroscientists and AI experts working out of offices in Boston and Silicon Valley.
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Scythe Robotics
Longmont - Left Hand Robotics has developed the first commercial-class, self-driving snow clearing robot capable of removing snow from sidewalks and walkways. The SnowBot Pro is controlled and monitored remotely from an online management dashboard and uses GPS to follow a pre-programmed path. Its rotating brush clears a sidewalk from edge-to-edge in a single pass to meet even the highest standards.
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Unvalley Robotics Companies

A legacy Unvalley organization established in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Stryker has dove headfirst into the robotics industry. A medical device company, Stryker now sells Mako, a robotic-arm assisted surgical tool, to hospitals and clinics around the world. With its unique ability to make precise measurements and cuts when operating on humans, surgery can be less dangerous and more efficient. Surgeons work alongside the robots by either controlling them from a virtual simulation or partnering with the arm in the surgery room.

Stryker isn’t the only Unvalley company that has forged its way into the robotics industry to make their processes more efficient.

Expect more companies to explore the power and utility of robotics in the workplace. Although some of the biggest robotics companies reside in California and Boston, the Unvalley will certainly play a major role in attracting and retaining the computer scientists and engineers that make robotics possible and the companies that scale it.

To keep an eye on the robotics industry and its quick acceleration into our lives, check out the annual tech conference CES in Las Vegas and other events hosting the latest and greatest robotics companies. In addition, follow top robotics publications to learn about recent developments and advancements made in the industry.

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Function of Robotics in Society

As we dive into more robotics companies in the USA shifting our society, it’s important to understand the main drivers for the introduction of robots into everyday life.

First, when considering robotics’ impact on manufacturing, it’s challenging to argue against the economic and efficiency benefits that corporations see. Companies are able to construct goods much faster, much safer and at a much lower cost than in previous generations with solely human work. An added bonus – and a consequence of robotics – to these corporations is that they don’t need as many humans to operate these machines in their shops, meaning fewer jobs for workers.

Second, as pictured in comics, cartoons and movies a century ago, robots help humans by reducing strain, stress and work. For example, what was previously unknowable information, you now have access to it with a simple question asked to your Amazon Alexa sitting on the kitchen counter. Robot vacuums and other cleaning devices have reduced the need for hiring outside workers to manage homes. And, autopilot lawn mowers and snow plows keep things tidy around the house, making for a presentable appearance for the neighborhood. The benefit to home life is immeasurable.