Robotics Startups

Cardinal Robot is a robotics-as-a-service provider that sources, integrates, deploys, and maintains fleets of commercial robots—including disinfection, vacuuming, delivery, and window-washing units—for customers in retail, hospitals, data centers, and other commercial spaces. It manages the full robotic deployment lifecycle, from financing and scheduling to maintenance and workforce upskilling.

3 investors

Cargo Robotics converts delivery vehicles into automated mobile warehouses using robotics and vehicle-integrated automation to enable curb-side delivery, returns, and micro-commerce. The platform serves parcel carriers, retailers, and consumer brands seeking to reimagine last-mile logistics and physical retail.

3 investors

Cartesian Kinetics develops "Physical AI" for fulfillment and warehouse operations, combining automation software and rack-native robotics that work within a facility's existing racks, systems and workflows rather than requiring a rebuild. It serves operators looking to modernize industrial and warehouse automation incrementally.

3 investors

Cellular Origins provides automated cell therapy manufacturing solutions through its Constellation platform, which integrates robotics and digital management to enable GMP-compliant scaling of cell therapies with minimal process modification.

3 investors

Circus Group develops AI-powered robotics, including autonomous food-preparation and sustainment robots and a refill system for them. The company targets sectors requiring automated food production and self-sustaining robotic operations.

3 investors

Cloneable builds a platform that combines in-field data collection with agentic AI automation to capture and scale expert knowledge for industrial teams managing critical infrastructure such as power grids, telecom networks, and construction projects. Its platform coordinates devices like robots, drones, and IoT sensors alongside enterprise software to automate field processes for utilities, agriculture, and other industrial operations.

3 investors

CMES Robotics builds AI-powered robotics systems that combine 3D vision and a proprietary AI core to inspect products, recognize objects, plan robot paths, and perform automated handling and manufacturing tasks. It serves industrial customers in logistics, automotive, shoe, heavy, secondary battery, and food manufacturing.

3 investors

CuboRex manufactures and sells crawler units, transport/hauling equipment, and robots for facility and plant management, along with a robot development platform. The company builds mobility and robotics hardware for industrial and field-work applications.

3 investors

Cyberdyne develops HAL, a wearable cyborg exoskeleton that detects bioelectric signals from the wearer's muscles and assists or augments physical movement. The technology is applied across medical, healthcare, caregiving, industrial, construction, and disaster recovery sectors.

3 investors

Cyclone Labs builds ultra-maneuverable autonomous underwater robotic systems capable of rapid three-dimensional movement for maritime operations. Its applications include underwater threat interception, reconnaissance and surveillance, underwater construction and maintenance, infrastructure inspection, and perimeter defense.

3 investors

Thesis is an AI research lab that automates AI research and development through autonomous experimentation. It applies recursive self-improvement machine learning to problems in biology and materials science.

3 investors

DeepAgro develops SprAI, an artificial intelligence-powered retrofit system that detects and selectively sprays weeds in agricultural fields, reducing herbicide use by up to 95% while maintaining precision control. The system uses real-time computer vision and deep learning algorithms to identify weeds versus crops, and integrates into existing sprayer equipment across various brands.

3 investors

DefendEye builds a launch-tube drone system with a low-light camera and onboard AI that detects humans and streams real-time video to an observation center within seconds of a triggered launch. It targets military, defense, and civil emergency users for use cases such as search and rescue, border control, perimeter breach detection, and aerial surveillance (ISR).

3 investors

Dennisson Technologies develops AURAFLEX, an advanced actuation technology that combines material science and photon physics for compact motion control applications. The company aims to provide alternatives to traditional mechanical actuation systems across various industries.

3 investors

Deus Robotics provides vendor-agnostic orchestration software that integrates robots, cameras, and warehouse management systems from multiple manufacturers into a unified control layer for warehouse and retail automation. The platform handles tens of thousands of operations per hour across fulfillment centers, stores, and logistics hubs.

3 investors

Konos Digital is a microphone with variable beam technology and network audio output for film, broadcast, and live sports applications. It streams four channels of audio simultaneously over a single Ethernet connection using AES67 standard.

3 investors

Double Robotics builds Double, a telepresence robot that mounts an iPad on a mobile base so remote workers can move around an office and maintain a physical presence among colleagues. It targets telecommuters and distributed teams in the robotics and remote-collaboration space.

3 investors

DriveU.auto develops autonomous vehicle deployment solutions for diverse use cases. The company offers retrofit technology for terminal tractors and a teleoperation platform that augments autonomous vehicle AI with remote operation capabilities.

3 investors

Driveblocks develops modular autonomy software that enables off-road vehicles to perceive their environment, make decisions, and navigate in complex conditions. The company serves customers in construction, agriculture, and defense industries.

3 investors

Duranium develops reactor technology that modernizes carbochlorination metallurgy to produce titanium, magnesium, aluminum, zirconium, and hafnium with reduced emissions and lower costs while securing critical minerals for U.S. manufacturing independence.

3 investors

Dynamo builds and operates autonomous tandem-rotor unmanned rotorcraft designed to lift heavy external loads (starting with a 10,000 lb class system) into remote or hard-to-reach locations, sold as a lift-on-demand service rather than as aircraft. It targets heavy aerial logistics for grid, telecom, energy, and remote industrial infrastructure customers, positioning itself as an alternative to helicopters.

3 investors

Edge Case provides safety solutions and a real-time safety intelligence platform for organizations deploying complex autonomous and AI systems, using its DevSafeOps methodology to build safety assurance into the product lifecycle. It serves frontier industries such as autonomous vehicles and defense, generating traceable safety data to help teams anticipate risks and support deployment decisions.

3 investors

Efference builds robotic-grade perception and compute hardware and devices for distributed data collection and real-time inference, serving robotics companies and applications at scale.

3 investors

Eigen develops co-therapies that modulate cancer cell target expression to improve the effectiveness of targeted treatments such as antibody-drug conjugates and radioligand therapies. It uses a discovery platform combining machine learning, robotic automation, and high-throughput combinatorial screening to design combination therapies addressing tumor heterogeneity.

3 investors