Robotics Startups

Hilstart provides an AI agent and a hardware interface device called Tracer that automate electronics board bring-up, firmware development, and design validation on real hardware. It serves hardware engineering teams, generating and running approved test plans, driving instruments, and writing results back to their tracker via API, usable in the cloud or from the user's own environment.

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HITBOT (Huiling Technology), founded in 2015, develops embodied intelligence operating systems and vertical AI models along with modular hardware such as robotic hands, robotic arms, and joints, built on its self-developed HITBOT OS platform. It provides physical AI agent solutions for new retail, smart laboratories, and intelligent manufacturing, serving customers including Xiaomi, Huawei, L'Oréal, and Mindray across dozens of countries.

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HIVE builds a "silicon brain" AI module and sensor kit that retrofits existing industrial machines — excavators, wheel loaders, forklifts, haulers — enabling autonomous, operator-supervised operation coordinated across a fleet. It serves construction, mining, and logistics operators, including 3PL warehouses and road authorities, with deployments in harsh real-world environments.

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Hive Robotics develops command, control, and connectivity software for unmanned aerial, ground, and water-based robots and drones, including swarming and teaming capabilities. The platform serves defense, aerospace, and industrial operators requiring secure multi-domain robotic operations in GPS-denied environments.

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HiveASMBLD is an automated construction company that builds homes using 3D printing for the exterior shell and structure combined with panelized building systems for interiors, integrating AI, augmented reality, and robotics. Formed from the 2024 merger of Hive3D and ASMBLD Building Systems, it targets housing affordability and the global housing crisis.

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HMRC manufactures unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and autonomous watercraft for surveying, inspection, monitoring, and rescue operations across various water environments. The company also offers custom vessel design and fabrication, controls systems, and underwater camera equipment.

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HOMAG provides machinery, automation, software, and service as integrated solutions for the wood and furniture industry, covering the full value chain. It serves woodworking trades, the furniture industry, and timber construction with connected production systems.

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Hongan Robots develops proprietary IoT-enabled commercial kitchen equipment, including intelligent dishwashers and cooking appliances, for restaurant operators. The company provides integrated hardware, cloud analytics, and service logistics to help restaurants optimize cleaning and food preparation workflows across 200+ cities in China.

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Hop Robotics uses robotics to automate beverage pouring at stadiums and venues, aiming to speed up service and increase profits for operators while reducing wait times for fans. It serves venue operators and event-goers in the beverage service and hospitality space.

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Horizon Surgical Systems develops surgical robotics for ophthalmic procedures, with a focus on improving cataract surgery. Its technology, spun out of research at UCLA, uses AI-trained imaging to make cataract care more precise and consistent.

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Hover.direct is developing a drone-based delivery platform for food, groceries and other goods.

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H Robotics develops rehabilitation robots for upper-limb recovery, serving medical and rehabilitation institutions. The company's products include the Rebless and Rebless Plana robots, designed to assist patients in functional restoration.

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Humanoid develops industrial humanoid robots, including the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled model, built to perform a range of manufacturing and industrial tasks autonomously. Its robots run on KinetIQ, a proprietary AI stack built on NVIDIA compute, and are being deployed with industrial customers such as Schaeffler.

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Hundred provides AI visual inspection that detects sub-millimeter cosmetic defects on parts using one-shot anomaly detection, without requiring programming or labeled defect data. It serves contract manufacturers building consumer electronics, helping factories reduce waste and avoid line-down issues before parts reach assembly.

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Husarion builds mobile robotic platforms, software tools, and connectivity solutions for developing autonomous systems on ROS and ROS 2. It serves professional markets as well as researchers and universities, supporting robotics work in sectors such as construction, agriculture, and logistics.

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Husarnet provides a platform for connecting devices with networking services, including hosting and a marketplace for microservices. The platform serves developers and organizations requiring secure device connectivity and additional integration services.

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HyBird builds an operating system that integrates industrial data and AI to help teams work safer and faster in critical industries. The platform unifies physical reality with digital systems to enable coordination between people, AI, and robots.

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HydroSurv develops uncrewed surface vessel (USV) platforms for maritime survey and marine operations. The company positions itself as making trusted USV platforms more accessible.

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Hyperkelp develops persistent, rugged maritime sensing platforms that collect real-time ocean data for defense, commercial, and environmental monitoring applications. The platforms feature edge autonomy, secure communications, and modular payloads for coastal and open-ocean deployments.

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HyVision System develops machine vision and image-processing technology, including image grabber boards, vision cameras, and vision algorithms, combined with motion-control technology for inspection, classification, and factory automation. The company also builds articulated and SCARA robots and signal-processing components for camera modules with 3D sensing and smart features.

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ICOMA Inc. designs and sells original electric mobility products and robotics, including electric tricycles, micro-mobility delivery vehicles, and dual-arm robots, using a toy-inspired design approach. Based in Japan, it also provides contract product and communication design, prototype production, and exhibition space design.

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The Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) is a not-for-profit research institute developing technologies intended to extend human capabilities, with research spanning intelligent systems, robotics, and AI. It also runs outreach programs including a public evening lecture series, the STEM-Talk podcast, and a joint Ph.D. program in Intelligent Systems and Robotics with the University of West Florida.

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IMA Group designs and manufactures automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceutical products, medical devices, food and consumer goods, and provides industrial process automation. It offers complete end-to-end processing and packaging lines and related service, serving over 40 industries worldwide.

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iMetalX develops real-time perception and characterization software for space object tracking and orbital operations, serving U.S. national security missions. The company provides decision support, autonomous maneuver planning, and command-and-control systems for space domain awareness and space control operations.

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