Robotics Startups

Pointcloud develops a silicon-based 4D imaging sensor platform using Silicon Photonics to provide high-performance 3D perception for machines. Its technology targets applications such as humanoid robots, drones, and autonomous mobility systems in the Physical AI space.

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Poke & Wiggle works on the data and go-to-market challenges of robot foundation models. The company operates in robotics and AI.

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Pollen Robotics builds expressive, interactive robots for AI developers and makers, including Reachy Mini, a companion robot for human interaction and creative coding, and Reachy 2, a human-scale bimanual mobile manipulator for AI and robotics labs working on embodied AI. The company is now part of Hugging Face.

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Polybee builds autonomous drone fleets and AI vision systems to provide real-time crop monitoring and precision pollination for fresh produce growers. The company helps farms optimize harvest timing, detect crop stress early, and increase profitability by making farming operations data-driven and predictable.

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Polyborg coordinates automation procurement for repetitive packaging tasks like palletizing and case packing, sourcing and benchmarking integrator quotes while structuring financing in parallel. The platform normalizes specifications, tracks every project milestone through a deterministic workflow, and offers subscription-based deployment with installation, maintenance, and support included.

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Pontem provides an operational layer for managing physical-world systems, letting users deploy, investigate, and automate those systems where they operate.

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Positronic provides an evaluation service for physical AI and robotics models, running a customer's policy or checkpoint on its own real robots and simulators to return video and time-to-milestone scores for each run. It serves robotics and AI teams that need to compare model checkpoints under controlled, blind conditions with scoring fixed in advance.

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Powerus builds unified systems architecture and hardware for autonomous operations in defense and critical infrastructure. The company operates as a manufacturing and integration platform serving military branches and allied nations through specialized operating companies focused on mission systems, heavy-lift platforms, and maritime autonomy.

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Praetorian Aeronautics is an Australian company that develops autonomous aerial systems (UAS) and AI-enhanced software for defense and military applications, including counter-drone interceptors and deep-strike ISTAR platforms. Its offerings target strategic and defense operations requiring autonomous aerial capability.

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Prancer RoboSec is an offensive penetration testing product for robot fleets, probing attack surfaces such as MQTT brokers, ROS2/DDS middleware, fleet-management APIs, radios (BLE/RF/Zigbee), and physical debug ports (UART/JTAG/USB) before deployment. It uses an autonomous "swarm" engine to deliver evidence-graded findings with bounded, reversible hardware-safe tests for organizations operating robotic systems.

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Prehensile Technologies designs robotic assistive devices, including RoboTable (a robotic overbed table for beds, recliners, and wheelchairs) and RoboDesk (a robotic wheelchair mount), that let users independently deploy, position, and store mobile devices via remote or accessible switches. It also offers custom assistive technology design, prototyping, and testing services to enhance independence for people with mobility limitations.

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SuperRadiant develops general-purpose robotic systems that combine scientific reasoning with physical experimentation, observing, forming hypotheses, and running experiments to pursue scientific discovery. The systems are aimed at automating the experimental research process.

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ProDrone provides professional drone services across metropolitan France, including aerial 4K photography, industrial inspection of structures such as wind turbines and bridges, cartography, topographic surveys, 3D modeling via photogrammetry, and thermal imaging. The company serves real estate, construction, industrial, and archaeological clients using certified pilots.

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Wyss Zurich is a translational accelerator embedded within ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, providing funding, infrastructure, technology platforms, and entrepreneurial support to early-stage projects. It focuses on regenerative medicine, robotics, and medical devices/bionics, helping move academic research toward clinical and commercial application.

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Promobot is a Russian robotics company that develops and manufactures service, educational, and industrial robots, including humanoid service robots, robot-doubles (Robo-C), collaborative manipulators, and AI dialog systems. It serves businesses, educational institutions, and industrial customers across sectors such as retail, tourism, services, and manufacturing.

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Protedyne develops laboratory automation platforms for pharmaceutical, biotech, and diagnostic testing companies to handle high-volume testing with rapid turnaround times. The company applies industrial automation design principles to laboratory equipment serving clinical and research environments.

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The Physical Superintelligence (PSI) Lab at USC is a research group developing robotic systems, including multimodal data engines, learning pipelines, and deployment software that let humanoids and mobile platforms perform dexterous, contact-rich tasks. Its research covers 3D scene understanding, whole-body humanoid control, and dexterous manipulation to build physical AI agents that operate autonomously in human environments.

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Pull To Refresh converts municipal solid waste into refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and durable carbon products for local government units (LGUs), using a phased deployment of waste characterization, pilots, and scale-up. It builds an AI system that characterizes incoming waste streams in real time and optimizes material flow to maximize energy output, diversion rates, and landfill reduction.

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Qlayers builds robotic systems for applying protective coatings to large industrial assets such as steel storage tanks, vessels, and wind turbine blades, using a patented spray-shielding system to reduce overspray and improve precision. Its technology targets asset owners and coating-maintenance contractors in industries like oil and energy, cutting work hours at height and paint usage.

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QLUUos is a sovereign AI platform that detects, tracks, and neutralizes unauthorized drone threats to critical infrastructure, running entirely on edge infrastructure without cloud dependencies. The system serves power plants, water treatment facilities, airports, and natural gas pipelines, using machine learning to predict threat trajectories and generate response options in real-time.

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Qoly Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells microsurgery-assist robots and related products, using robotics to help surgeons perform precise and safe microsurgery for functional disorders. The Japan-based company, spun out of Sony, targets surgical care providers to expand access to advanced microsurgical treatment.

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Quantentech develops smart electric drive solutions for electric vehicles.

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Qummy is a food production and service company that manufactures prepared food products and operates food service operations including restaurants, cafes, and mobile food units. The company also develops software and maintains databases related to its food business operations.

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R[3]sidency is an accelerator for "Machine Economy" startups, running a 12-week program with $300K investment, mentorship, ecosystem credits, and a demo day and investor roadshow in New York. It backs founders building in Web3, AI, and robotics, with the program run in person in London.

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