Robotics Startups

Blueflite develops electric drones for logistics and package delivery, with vertical take-off and landing capabilities designed for last-mile deliveries, emergency medical transport, and industrial supply missions. The platform integrates hardware and cloud-based software for mission planning, control, and customer order management.

5 investors

Boxbot provides automated, high-density storage systems for logistics operations, using AI-driven capabilities to optimize vehicle loading, cross-dock buffering, and item retrieval across last-mile delivery, air cargo, and industrial applications.

5 investors

BrightAI provides AI hardware, sensors, and drones that add continuous observability to physical infrastructure, using on-device AI models and foundation models trained on telemetry data to predict failures and guide field teams. It serves owners and operators of critical infrastructure, such as water, utilities, and energy companies, to improve productivity, capital efficiency, and safety.

5 investors

BRINC develops and deploys drones for public safety and emergency response, designed to de-escalate dangerous situations and reduce risk to first responders and communities.

5 investors

CafeX operates fully autonomous robotic café systems that serve beverages and prepared items to consumers. The company deploys unmanned kiosk locations in high-traffic venues.

5 investors

Carbon Origins builds Bobby, an autonomous robot for hazardous work in construction, landscaping, and firefighting that combines AI autonomy with remote operator control via VR. The robot serves critical industries performing dangerous, dirty, and repetitive tasks.

5 investors

Cell Propulsion develops full-stack technology for electric and autonomous commercial vehicles, including EV powertrains, energy storage systems, fleet management software, and vehicle autonomy. Founded by former ISRO engineers, it targets commercial vehicle fleets in India.

5 investors

Cerulion provides a ROS2-compatible robot middleware that achieves microsecond-latency inter-process communication through zero-copy shared memory and deterministic execution. Built in Rust, it enables faster, more reliable real-time performance for robotics applications compared to standard ROS2.

5 investors

CheMastery builds an automation platform for chemical synthesis that aims to standardize and reproduce chemical research and manufacturing processes, reducing manual laboratory work for chemists. It targets researchers in fields such as drug discovery and materials science.

5 investors

Clarapath develops SectionStar, an automated tissue sectioning system for histology laboratories that aims to improve slide quality, reduce turnaround time and lower costs. The company builds healthcare robotics for laboratory medicine and pathology workflows.

5 investors

Claryo builds Spatial Generative AI that creates a photo-realistic, spatially accurate digital twin of a warehouse from phone or drone scans, letting operators design configurations, monitor inventory and safety compliance, and plan labor and automation. It serves warehouse and facility operators looking to improve throughput, space utilization, and robotics deployment.

5 investors

Clobot is a Korean robotics service provider that builds software for autonomous and heterogeneous robots, including CHAMELEON for general-purpose autonomous driving robots and CROMS, a cloud-based fleet management and operations system. It offers end-to-end robot services from planning through operation and maintenance for enterprises deploying robot hardware.

5 investors

CloudChef builds hourly-wage kitchen robots that learn recipes from a single demonstration and operate across commercial kitchen stations such as prep, batch cooking, line cooking, griddle work, and packaging. The robots are designed to drop into existing commercial kitchens without retrofitting and are offered on a pay-by-the-hour model in three form factors.

5 investors

CMR Surgical develops Versius, a small, modular, and portable surgical robot that enables hospitals and surgeons to perform minimal access (keyhole) surgery. The company also provides a digital ecosystem offering data and insights to support surgical teams across specialties including thoracic, general, gynaecology, and colorectal surgery.

5 investors

Cone Labs develops AI-powered software for structural engineers to perform building condition assessments, converting field inspection data into high-resolution 3D models and semantic analysis of building conditions.

5 investors

Daedalus provides cloud infrastructure and tools for precision manufacturing operations, offering manufacturing-specific functionality similar to AWS's broader cloud services.

5 investors

DeepReach runs a data-collection network where individuals ("Data Partners") wear a shipped device to record real-world operation data and get paid per accepted task. The captured data supports AI/machine-learning training use cases, with contributors operating across dozens of countries.

5 investors

Delivers.AI develops autonomous robotic solutions for last-mile delivery. The company serves cities and businesses with eco-friendly logistics technology.

5 investors

Deterrence builds an autonomous manufacturing platform that combines line sensors, robotic task automation, machine vision inspection, and AI-driven optimization to run and improve factory production. It serves the U.S. defense industrial base, targeting defense manufacturing production capacity.

5 investors

DexMate develops physical AI technology, providing products intended to support the building of embodied AI and robotics systems.

5 investors

Duality develops simulation software that models complex environmental scenarios and processes real-time sensor and machine data. The company serves industries requiring accurate digital simulations for operational insights.

5 investors

Elorian is an AI research and product lab building models for visual reasoning, training systems to interpret and manipulate visual representations by understanding spatial relationships, structure, and physical constraints. Its models target applications across engineering design, robotics, medicine and scientific research, and satellite imagery analysis.

5 investors

Embodied AI develops automation technology intended to handle repetitive physical work and augment the human workforce. The company positions its technology for use by labs and industry partners.

5 investors

EverestLabs builds RecycleOS, an AI-powered operating system for recycling plants that uses computer vision, AI, and robotics to identify and sort recyclable materials in Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs). The system automates sorting to reduce landfill waste and provides operational and sustainability data to recycling operators and packaging companies.

5 investors