Robotics Startups

HCVC is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building scientific and technological progress through hardware, robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing innovations.

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Healing Innovations develops robotic rehabilitation technology aimed at improving health, mobility, and independence for people recovering from neurological injuries. It works with patients, clinical staff, and partners to provide neuro rehabilitation solutions.

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Hebbian Robotics builds open-source SDKs and data-quality infrastructure for Physical AI data pipelines, helping robotics foundation model labs filter, label, and curate large volumes of egocentric video data. Its tools let data teams write quality checks as Python functions with durable execution, observability, and auditability.

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Hermes Robotics manufactures autonomy retrofit kits that enable low-speed vehicle automation for any vehicle type. The company serves vehicle operators and fleet owners seeking autonomous capability retrofits.

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Hex builds autonomous battery-swapping infrastructure for drones to extend flight capabilities and make aerial data collection more accessible. The company develops hardware and software platforms that work with any drone aircraft for industrial and commercial operations.

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Hextronics builds an automated drone-in-a-box system that launches, flies inspection missions, and recharges without an on-site pilot, managed remotely through its software. It targets industrial infrastructure monitoring such as solar fields, rail, oil and gas, and urban rooftops.

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HireHenry builds autonomous mobile robots for material handling and logistics tasks. The company provides robotics hardware with computer vision and GPS localization capabilities for enterprise deployment.

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Hivebotics develops AI-powered robotics automation for industrial and commercial applications. It offers robotic systems and fleet management tools aimed at automating operational tasks.

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Holy Technologies produces composite parts using an automated manufacturing process that optimizes fiber placement and design for lightweight, load-bearing components across industries.

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Human in Motion Robotics develops self-balancing exoskeleton technology, including its XoMotion platform, and other robotic healthcare solutions aimed at improving mobility for people with impairments. The company grew out of research at Simon Fraser University and targets the medical/rehabilitation robotics market.

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Humble develops vision-first autonomous driving technology on a low-cost, flexible platform designed to haul freight. The company aims to lower freight costs and reduce emissions for logistics customers by building self-driving trucking solutions.

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Hydromea builds autonomous underwater vehicles and high-bandwidth, low-power wireless communication systems to collect and relay inspection and sensor data from submerged infrastructure. It serves operators of subsea assets, offering wireless asset-integrity monitoring aimed at the offshore energy and ocean industries.

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Hypershell builds wearable exoskeletons that assist walking, hiking, climbing, and cycling by reducing physical exertion and heart rate over long distances and steep terrain. Its products target outdoor adventurers, hikers, and expedition guides, and it is presented as the first exoskeleton to undergo third-party validation of its performance claims.

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Hyphenbox converts raw egocentric and multi-modal video into training-ready datasets for general-purpose robotics, providing frame-accurate action segmentation, 3D hand reconstruction, and full-body pose reconstruction. It serves frontier robotics labs and data-collection partners whose model development is bottlenecked on enriched, human-verified training data.

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ideaForge develops drones and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. The available page content is limited to navigation and contact details, providing minimal detail about specific products or customers.

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iFollow has merged with Stow Robotics to form Movu Robotics, a provider of warehouse automation technology. The company develops robotics solutions for warehouse operations.

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Imajin operates an online "Manufacturing HUB" platform in Indonesia that connects businesses with local manufacturing micro, small, and medium enterprises (UMKM) to source and produce products. It offers services such as 3D projects, mold and die making, part fabrication, mass production, and machining, with project progress tracked through its digital platform.

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IMPACT builds a containerized counter-drone defense system that autonomously detects, launches, and intercepts hostile drones, pairing two interceptors: HUNTER for close-range low-altitude threats and SABLE for fast, long-range movers. It targets protection of high-value sites such as data centers, power substations and plants, and airports.

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Insitu develops uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS/UAVs), sensor payloads, and control software for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions on land and at sea, primarily serving defense and military customers. The company also provides runway-independent ground support equipment, worldwide deployed operations, and UAS operator/maintainer training.

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Inaho develops a tomato harvesting robot for agricultural producers to automate crop harvesting operations. The company focuses on smart agriculture and agricultural automation in Japan.

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Inheritance develops deep learning systems that convert raw video into structured behavioral data for training robots and world models. The company enables robotics to scale by making video machine-readable so that robots can learn from visual data at scale, similar to how language models learn from text.

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Inloop Robotics develops learning-enabled robotic arms that are deployed in warehouse and logistics environments. The company builds AI systems that enable robots to master complex manipulation tasks from human demonstrations.

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Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based startup investor whose portfolio page presents companies across software, robotics, healthcare, and hardware in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The page profiles portfolio companies rather than a single product.

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Innoviz builds LiDAR technology that provides real-time 3D mapping and object detection for industrial safety applications, including hazard detection in warehouses, construction sites, ports, and around heavy machinery. Its systems are used by industrial and heavy machinery operators to monitor environments, prevent collisions, and improve situational awareness.

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