Robotics Startups

OpenDroids designs, manufactures, and integrates custom robotics solutions, including autonomous mobile robots deployed across restaurants, hotels, hospitals, warehouses, airports, manufacturing, and retail. It also develops lab hardware such as dexterous hands and motion-capture gloves for human-level control and data collection, offered on a robotics-as-a-service model.

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Open Ocean Robotics builds solar-powered autonomous surface vessels and ocean intelligence technology for marine monitoring and data collection. The company serves maritime, defense, and environmental markets with uncrewed marine robotics.

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Autopilot is a platform that helps businesses identify, deploy, and scale robotic automation for repetitive, manual tasks. It guides companies through finding high-ROI tasks to automate, integrating automation into daily operations, and standardizing it across the enterprise.

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Ora Biomedical is a longevity-science company that developed an AI and robotics platform for high-throughput screening of aging interventions using C. elegans research tools. Spun out of the University of Washington longevity-science community, it works on healthy-aging and regenerative medicine research.

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OrbitAID develops on-orbit servicing technology for satellites and spacecraft, including in-space refuelling, autonomous docking, repair, and inspection to extend asset life and enable orbital maneuverability. Its systems include a standardized docking and refueling port and pose-estimation software, demonstrated through microgravity missions.

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Origin builds construction robots paired with AI to automate on-site building tasks, using autonomous systems that execute construction work with defect detection and correction to reduce rework. It targets the construction industry, aiming to address high costs, safety hazards, and labor shortages.

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Origin Robotics develops autonomous systems for European and NATO defense markets, combining cost-efficient hardware with advanced software to address modern battlefield challenges.

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ORKID develops electric unmanned aerial vehicle platforms designed for diverse commercial applications across industries. The company focuses on making advanced drone technology accessible through flexible, reliable hardware-software integration.

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Ornata retrofits existing tractors and farm equipment into autonomous machines that connect by satellite to its operations centre, where remote operators ("Autonomists") plan and run field operations such as seeding, spraying, and harvest support. The service targets farmers seeking to address labour shortages, costs, and safety concerns without buying new equipment.

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Orpheus Ocean develops remotely operated and autonomous vehicles that enable exploration and data collection in deep ocean environments, including the hadal zone below 6,000 meters, serving oceanographic research, conservation, and resource management applications.

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Orvixo provides an AI-based production planning and scheduling system for manufacturers, modeling a factory's constraints, operating rules and planner knowledge to build and continuously adapt schedules. It connects to ERP/MRP data to plan across demand, materials, capacity and production, and replans when conditions such as rush orders, breakdowns or material delays change.

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Orvue is developing a single-use, robotic camera for laparoscopy that is controlled directly by the surgeon, replacing manual scope handling with robotic positioning for greater stability. The platform is designed for surgical use and intended to capture procedural data.

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OS3 develops hardware robots and AI models for autonomous deployment in real-world environments. The company designs its own robot hardware and trains models using human demonstration videos and reinforcement learning.

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Oscorp Energy develops intelligent autonomous machines and robotics to automate waste sorting and waste processing facilities. The company serves the waste management industry.

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Otherlab is an independent research and design lab that develops technologies in renewable energy, robotics, and manufacturing, incubating internal projects into spinout companies. It works with government agencies and Fortune 500 companies on decarbonization projects spanning solar, energy storage, medical devices, and fluidic robotics.

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OTTO is an autonomous production logistics solution for manufacturers, enabling autonomous material handling in factory environments. It is owned by Rockwell Automation.

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Outfield uses drone-based aerial imagery and machine learning to provide data analytics and precision farming insights for fruit growers, focused on orchard and vine crops. It develops technologies such as its Precision Orchard Dosing System (PODS) for tasks like precision spraying, serving growers and plant science research groups internationally.

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Outrun builds multi-purpose robotic workstations combining industrial cobots, 3D cameras, compute, and a tablet interface with a software platform and 24/7 remote engineering support. The systems automate stationary manual tasks such as case packing, kitting, machine tending, and inspection for small to medium scale production lines across industries.

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Overlay develops AI vision systems that monitor frontline operations in real time to support inspections, maintenance, and training, along with autonomous agents that act on that intelligence by triaging issues and dispatching work across connected systems. It serves industrial and operational teams.

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Overlay builds a consumer robotics device combining hardware with AI-powered software and computer vision to automatically apply makeup, calibrating each look to the user's facial geometry, skin tone, and preferences. The product targets consumers in the personal care and beauty market.

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Oversight develops a collaborative edge-AI operating system for critical operations, supporting mission planning, training, live execution, and debrief for military and law enforcement units. Its platform uses data fusion, computer vision, and AI-driven insights, and has been used by IDF and police special operations forces.

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PABLO AIR develops swarm-intelligent drone technologies, including military swarm combat drone systems, AI-based industrial drone inspection and safety solutions, and drone light shows for performances, along with ground control systems and swarm coordination software. The South Korean company applies its unmanned vehicle swarm coordination technology across defense, industrial, and entertainment sectors.

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Pace Robotics builds the Centa Painter, a modular autonomous robot that performs building-finish tasks — painting, puttying, and sanding of internal walls and ceilings — for construction and real estate projects. The robot navigates autonomously, detects door and window openings, and is aimed at the Indian and Middle Eastern construction markets.

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Packet Digital develops power systems and power management technologies for autonomous systems operating in air, sea, land, and space, including unmanned aircraft and solar products. It also provides engineering services and embedded software work for these applications.

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