Top 93 Startups developing AI for Robotics

Jan 12, 2025 | By Siddhant Patel

These startups create AI-powered humanoid and non-humanoid robots that can autonomously implement intelligent tasks.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10M
RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world's most advanced Robo-Labor system.
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Country: USA | Funding: $214M
Serve is the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery. Our robots serve people in public spaces, starting with food delivery.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: CHF70M
ANYbotics leads the way in developing mobile robotics for industrial applications. Their autonomous legged robots solve customer problems in challenging environments so far only accessible to humans – and beyond that.
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Country: China | Funding: $942.8M
UBTECH Robotics dedicated to commercialize humanoid robot, making it walk out of the research institution and become available to ordinary people.
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Country: USA | Funding: $854M
Figure is building robots humanoids with AI
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Country: USA | Funding: $606.5M
As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
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Country: USA | Funding: $570M
Skydio is a robotics company that makes flying tools that free your hands and mind. The company's unique computer vision and motion planning algorithms coupled with the same cheap image sensors and processors in mobile phones give drones the ability to navigate intelligently with respect to their surroundings.
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Country: France | Funding: $449.6M
Exotec offers an innovative order preparation system, based on a fleet of collaborative mobile robots.
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Country: USA | Funding: $437M
Bright Machines brings together intelligent software with flexible factory robots and machine learning to help our customers meet the growing demands of the next generation of manufacturing.
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Country: USA | Funding: $416M
Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce.
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Country: USA | Funding: $303M
Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $287.7M
Starship Technologies develops self-driving delivery robots.
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Country: USA | Funding: $271M
Path Robotics is focused on robotic welding. The system uses scanning, computer vision and AI to adjust itself to different parts, understanding that sizing parts is a kind of imperfect science.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $236M
SoftBank Robotics develops robots and offers robot-related products and services, including “Pepper”.
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Country: USA | Funding: $222M
Covariant is building universal AI that allows robots to see, reason and act on the world around
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Country: China | Funding: $199.2M
Pudu is a “smart delivery robotics” company that creates robotic SKUs for food delivery and dish return, all of which are indoor models.
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Country: USA | Funding: $196.2M
Dexterity provides dexterous robotic systems for logistics and supply chains, which allow customers to unlock the maximum value of their workforce by automating repetitive pick-pack tasks.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $194.1M
Attabotics is a warehouse fulfillment startup that provides robotic warehousing services.
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Country: USA | Funding: $193M
Brain Corp develops AI Platform for Self-Driving Robots. With delivery, healthcare, security, and personal service robots powered by BrainOS, organizations can improve life at work, at home, and at play.
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Country: USA | Funding: $179M
Vecna Robotics offers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org