Synapse Semiconductor
Hiring
What they do:
New semiconductors that merge compute and vision
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HQ: Durham, NC, United States
Top Robotics Startups in the United States
This list has 289 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 77 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (180), Los Angeles (22), and New York (14). Largest teams: Cruise, Embark Trucks, and Opentrons. Latest round: FireFly Robotics raised $3.4M (Oct 13, 2026).
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IMPACT Drones
Hiring
What they do:
Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Aktoria Robotics
Hiring
What they do:
Human as API for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rhem Labs
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What they do:
Home care technology for aging parents and their families
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
The spot market for semiconductors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Building persistent, high-performance infrastructure in the sky
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
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Developing long-lasting drug formulations 50% faster
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HQ: Sacramento, CA, United States
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We make robots that move boxes in warehouses
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Mass-producing and financing micro data center incredibly quickly.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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iPhone-based driver monitoring for commercial fleets.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather
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HQ: Dayton, OH, United States
Automat
Hiring
What they do:
Agentic automation that understands context, recovers, and improves.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W23Growth stage
What they do:
Unified flight software and hardware for the mission of tomorrow
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Automating airport baggage handling with robots.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S24Early stage
What they do:
AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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chrt is a logistics platform for time-critical shipping
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Relling
Hiring
What they do:
deploying the first billion robots for manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S25Early stage
What they do:
Manipulate Anything Robot
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Autonomous Customer Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI BPO for financial servies, run by computer-use agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The most capable American-made humanoid robot for $1,688
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Metal manufacturing, faster, cheaper, and more versatile.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time vision
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Annotations for robotics data
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We're building robot birds for surveillance.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Nervous System for Physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Building drone swarms that hunt hidden enemies.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Unmanned cargo airplanes
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Microgrids in a box built anywhere in days
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robots for high skilled labor powering AI infrastructure
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Real-time cloud inference for robotics.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Enable robots to operate safely in the real world.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Skyscrape makes temperature-responsive insulation
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HQ: Portland, OR, United States
What they do:
The neural engine for autonomous robots
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HQ: St. Louis, MO, United States