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Annotations for robotics data
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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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We're building robot birds for surveillance.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Nervous System for Physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building drone swarms that hunt hidden enemies.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robots for waste manipulation
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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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
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Real-time cloud inference for robotics.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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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
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The neural engine for autonomous robots
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HQ: St. Louis, MO, United States
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Platform to automate manual back-office work
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Config Management for Robotics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Gigascale Nanomanufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Datadog for industrial robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robots that repair roads
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We assemble PCBs in under 48 hours for quantities under 10
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI for the physical world
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Machine intelligence for American Welding
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Technology to detect and track small drones
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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AI-automated factory for PCBAs
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Building the Data Infrastructure layer for Physical AI.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI agents that interviews every employee to hand context to AI tools.
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USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
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HQ: Denver, CO, United States
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Turns real businesses into robotics data vendors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Evals for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Embodied Scientific Intelligence
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Motor cortex for physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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100% automated inspection for consumer electronics parts
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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A robot that makes tea!
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We put farms inside restaurants, so customers get healthier food and…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Automated phone ordering system for restaurants
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI agents to enroll providers with payors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States