Robotics Startups

BlueWhite develops an autonomy stack and physical AI engine that automate high-risk, labor-intensive military operations such as combat logistics, route clearance, and border security. Its modular platform retrofits existing vehicle fleets with autonomous perception and actuation for defense forces operating in contested environments.

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Bluewhite develops autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) technology and physical AI for defense, homeland security, and heavy industrial ground operations. Founded in 2017, it partners with OEMs, defense organizations, and allied governments and was acquired by Elbit Systems in 2026.

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BoltX is a Physical AI company focused on industrial maintenance, aiming to address the shortage of skilled labor in that field.

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Bone Robotics builds modular, autonomous hardware platforms for air, sea, and land missions, developing the full stack from airframes and sensors to autonomy logic and mission control software. Its systems target complex and hazardous operations using integrated command and control and remote autonomous flight capabilities.

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Boost Robotics builds autonomous robots that inspect and maintain data center infrastructure. The company serves data center operators to ensure continuous facility operations.

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Bota Systems develops high-precision force torque and tactile sensors for robotics, along with software and teleoperation platforms that enable robots to sense and interact with the physical world. The company serves industrial automation, robotics research, and physical AI applications across manufacturing, assembly, and collaborative robotics.

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BOTINKIT builds AI-driven digital kitchen hardware and software, including robotic cooking systems, for chain restaurants to reduce reliance on skilled labor, maintain consistent food quality across locations, and lower kitchen labor and food waste costs. Its solutions target restaurant chains ranging from small local operators to global brands.

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BotLab Dynamics designs and builds its own drone hardware and software to produce drone light shows (outdoor, indoor, and pyro) for brands and events, and also supplies drone components through its BotLab Store and develops defence applications under "Vayudh". Founded at IIT Delhi, the company operates from India and has performed shows for clients such as Zomato, Tata, and Mercedes.

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Bow Capital is a University of California ecosystem venture fund that backs early-stage founders building AI for physical, industrial, and biological applications, including robotics, defense, healthcare, and logistics. It sources deals from the UC system's faculty, students, and alumni and runs a UC San Diego incubator focused on national security through science, robotics, and manufacturing.

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Bowlton makes an automated cooking machine that prepares salads, soups, and hot bowls—up to 300 dishes per hour—along with software for inventory management, kitchen workflow control, and real-time analytics. It targets restaurants and food service operators handling dine-in and delivery demand, offering customizable menus and integration with food delivery platforms.

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BPA is an IT services company that builds custom software, systems, and integrated hardware-software solutions using artificial intelligence, robotics, and IoT technologies such as machine learning and computer vision. It serves private and government clients across industries including manufacturing, construction, transport, security, retail, and banking.

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Bramante Bio manufactures AI-driven robotic instruments and reagents for life sciences research and manufacturing. The company designs hardware that integrates with modern software stacks and provides direct engineering support.

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Avalon is an orchestration platform that translates natural language commands into coordinated multi-platform actions for defense systems, enabling operators to control multiple robotic platforms without a 1:1 operator-to-robot ratio. The platform works with existing hardware and voice control in contested environments.

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Bridge Farm is a UK horticultural grower that cultivates plants at scale in a low-carbon, biomass-heated glasshouse in Lincolnshire, using robotics and AI to breed and grow more than 70 million plants a year. It serves the horticulture and bioscience markets with a portfolio of sustainably grown plants.

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Brighter Signals develops patented tactile perception sensors that let machines, robots, and objects sense and measure touch and pressure. Its technology targets manufacturers building intelligent products across various industry applications.

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Brio builds neural world models and simulations from a robot's own sensor logs to train and evaluate robotic stacks, aiming to close the sim-to-real gap. It serves robotics teams, supporting perception sensors such as RGB, depth, lidar, and proprioception, and approaches like SLAM and VLAs.

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btr.tech provides end-to-end warehouse automation through advisory, design, project management, and its Mission Platform software for storage and fulfillment operations. It serves industrial and operations-focused businesses looking to automate fulfillment, increase throughput, and reduce labor dependency.

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Bucket Robotics develops computer vision systems that detect manufacturing defects using machine learning models generated from CAD designs and sample data, eliminating the need for manual labeling and enabling deployment directly onto existing factory cameras and hardware.

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Buildroid develops an autonomous platform for steel factories. The company targets manufacturers in the steel production industry.

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C-ASTRAL develops small unmanned aircraft systems, including fixed-wing and eVTOL drones, for ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), surveillance, surveying, remote sensing, and precision agriculture applications. Its systems, such as the BRAMOR and ATLAS-AS90X lines, serve first responders, special operations forces, and mapping/surveying users, with payload gimbals, long endurance, and high-precision data capture.

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Cachai develops collaborative autonomy software that converts hub-dependent systems into consensus-based distributed ones for mission-critical and defense applications. Its technology lets many devices operate as a coordinated swarm that divides tasks and adapts without a single point of failure.

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Caja Robotics provides an automated order fulfillment system for warehouses, combining robots and workstations with proprietary AI-powered, cloud-based software. Its goods-to-person robotic solution adapts to existing warehouse structures and integrates with customers' Warehouse Management Systems to optimize routing, inventory, and order tasks.

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Calibrate Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups working on AI, automation, autonomy, machine learning, and robotics, partnering with technical founders at the earliest stages.

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Cambrian builds vision-to-action AI for industrial robots, using off-the-shelf industrial cameras and standard grippers to enable robot arms to perform high-precision manufacturing tasks. Its models are trained on synthetic data and deliver sub-millimeter precision across varying lighting conditions and part types, including transparent, reflective, and black components.

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