Cerulion
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What they do:
Open source operating system for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Robotics Startups
This list has 355 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 91 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: Uvi raised $7.5M (Oct 14, 2026).
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OS3
Hiring
What they do:
Affordable, intelligent humanoid robots built to deploy at scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Robotic factories that build robots
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HQ: Emeryville, CA, United States
What they do:
We build micro-drones that kill mosquitoes.
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Waddle Labs
Hiring
What they do:
LLMs that control robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
One Robot
Hiring
What they do:
World models for robot evals and training.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Synapse Semiconductor
Hiring
What they do:
New semiconductors that merge compute and vision
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HQ: Durham, NC, United States
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
Hiring
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:
Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders
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HQ: Switzerland
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
What they do:
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
What they do:
Building self-programming machines
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What they do:
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
Spaceium Inc
Hiring
What they do:
In-Space Refueling
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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:
Humanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone!
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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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
What they do:
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
What they do:
We make the world's most efficient aircraft
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What they do:
AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time vision
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States