Verne Robotics
Hiring
What they do:
AI models that teach robots new skills in hours
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Manufacturing and Robotics Startups
This list has 161 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 54 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (99), Los Angeles (9), and New York (8). Largest teams: Gecko Robotics, SRTX, and Human Archive. Latest round: Multiply Labs raised $75M (Oct 7, 2026).
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What they do:
Reshoring critical metal production
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Autonomous robots for retails.
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HQ: Shenzhen, China
Almond
Hiring
What they do:
A dual-arm robot built for physical AI.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Mbodi AI
Hiring
What they do:
Industrial Robots that Learn and Operate Like Humans
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
What they do:
Industrial data layer for robotics training
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Allus AI
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What they do:
Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model
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HQ: Atlanta, GA, United States
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GreaseBoss verifes industrial machinery is greased correctly
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HQ: Sunshine Coast, Australia
What they do:
Robotic arms that pick and pack your orders.
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HQ: Germany
What they do:
robots & software for farms
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Aseon Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Robotic pitstops for self-driving cars
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Runtime.si
Hiring
What they do:
Evaluation Infrastructure for Robotics (YC F26)
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Advanced Contract MFG for fast moving hardware companies
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HQ: Fort Worth, TX, United States
What they do:
IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Relari
Hiring
What they do:
Building dexterous robots that learn from human biomechanics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Ultra
Hiring
What they do:
Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
What they do:
Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Robots, parts & RL envs & evals - delivered in 48 hrs / pickup in SF.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Darwin
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What they do:
Robots to build civilization
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Eden Robotics
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Autonomous services for humanity.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
ProvenMetal
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What they do:
AI-native electronics manufacturing for the American industrial base
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Intelline
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Intelline makes the world's most efficient fuel agnostic engines for…
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Tekton Dynamics
Hiring
What they do:
AI control layer for welding robots
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Revise Robotics
Hiring
What they do:
Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronics
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Lightberry
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What they do:
Robots with soul
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Asimov
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What they do:
Real-world human movement data for humanoid robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Servo7
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What they do:
Container unloading robots for warehouses
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HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
PerfectBit, Inc.
Hiring
What they do:
Robotics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nine Fives
Hiring
What they do:
RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Neuromorphic
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What they do:
Building robots to automate wetlabs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Flexible printed OLED displays.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
AWS for precision manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
OS3
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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
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