Top 10 Startups developing AI for Robotics in USA

Updated: March 12, 2024

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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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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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Funding: $416M
Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce.
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Funding: $311M
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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Funding: $287.7M
Starship Technologies develops self-driving delivery robots.
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Funding: $259.5M
Anki is dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence and consumer robotics to our everyday lives.
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Funding: $228M
Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
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Funding: $222M
Covariant is building universal AI that allows robots to see, reason and act on the world around
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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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Funding: $175.8M
Bear Robotics develops AI Robot-waiters for Restaurants
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Funding: $175.1M
AMP Robotics creates robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
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Funding: $171M
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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Funding: $161M
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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Funding: $149.5M
Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronics and more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor.
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Funding: $128.5M
Vecna Robotics offers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions.
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Funding: $122M
Vicarious is developing artificial general intelligence for robots. By combining insights from generative probabilistic models and systems neuroscience, our architecture trains faster, adapts more readily, and generalizes more broadly than AI approaches commonly used today.
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Funding: $115M
Reimagining fulfillment with intelligent robots that can pick and pack anything.
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Funding: $112M
Built Robotics is an industrial automation company that designs to make autonomous construction equipment.
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Funding: $103.2M
Iron Ox uses robotics and artificial intelligence to ensure each individual plant receives the optimal levels of sunshine, water, and nutrients.
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Funding: $100.4M
Activ Surgical is building a hardware-agnostic platform to enable autonomous and collaborative surgery through the integration of computer vision, artificial intelligence and robotics.
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Funding: $97.6M
Bossa Nova produces robots for retail stores. They scan shelves to help employees with restocking, keep track of where items are located, so you can find your favorite items at any time.
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Funding: $96.4M
Plus One Robotics builds robot perception software and solutions.
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Funding: $94M
Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
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Funding: $86M
Soft Robotics opens new markets to automation through the application and commercialization of its proprietary soft robotics technology. It develops 3D vision and artificial intelligence technology for soft grasping
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Funding: $78.9M
Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society's most intractable problems. Carbon Robotics’ revolutionary, high-precision CV approach improves crop yield
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Funding: $79M
Figure is building robots humanoids with AI
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Funding: $77.4M
Embodied is a robotics and AI company developing state-of-the-art companion robots that aim to revolutionize care and wellness, enhancing quality of life for individuals and families.
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Funding: $71.3M
Realtime Robotics developer of specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds.
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Funding: $70.8M
Scythe Robotics is revolutionizing how we take care of the outdoors.
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Funding: $70M
FarmWise builds adaptive robots to farm every single plant.
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Funding: $68.7M
Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce.
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Funding: $65.1M
At Ambi Robotics, adaptable AI meets robotic dexterity to build the supply chain’s most valued systems
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Funding: $62M
Roboteam is a provider of designs, develops, and manufactures unmanned platforms. It is a throwable robotic platform with detection and tactical surveillance capabilities.
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Funding: $56.5M
Doxel develops AI Powered robots for Construction sites
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Funding: $54.2M
Rapid Robotics automates common machine operator tasks to help manufacturers solve labor shortages, scale their business and outbid competitors.
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Funding: $53.3M
Cobalt builds indoor robots that work alongside human guards to provide security.
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Funding: $53M
Serve is the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery. Our robots serve people in public spaces, starting with food delivery.
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Funding: $48.3M
Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning.
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Funding: $43.7M
Apptronik specializes in human-centered robotic systems. These are robotics systems that operate in close proximity to humans.
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Funding: $42.5M
Robust.AI intends to build the world’s first industrial-grade cognitive engine for robots
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Funding: $43M
Robotics company creating a new class of tool for the skilled construction worker.
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Funding: $41.5M
Coco is a last mile delivery robot manufacturer.
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Funding: $40M
Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction.
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Funding: $38M
FORT Robotics is a safety and security platform designed to secure autonomous machines from cybersecurity attacks.
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Funding: $37.5M
Pickle Robot builds autonomous parcel handling robots for brownfield facilities that palletize, depalletize, sort, and singulate.
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Funding: $37M
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
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Funding: $32.1M
Make your products and services more intelligent with The Neurala Brain, a deep learning neural network software that mimics how the human brain works. Neurala is looking to put AI in the hands of toy makers, drone enthusiasts and IoT engineers alike.
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Funding: $22.5M
Chef Robotics is a robotics and artificial intelligence company serving the food industry.
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Funding: $10.5M
Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
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Funding: $10.7M
Refraction AI is a robot delivery startup offering food delivery service from restaurants to customers through its self-driving robot REV-1.