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Robotics and Embodied AI Startups

Compare robotics and embodied AI companies building autonomous systems, industrial robotics, humanoids, perception, and physical automation.

Companies tracked: 303Key segments: industrial robotics, humanoids, autonomous systemsUpdated: September 4, 2026

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Embodied AI is gaining momentum where foundation-model progress meets labor scarcity, warehouse automation, and industrial deployment budgets.

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Company	Location	Funding	Focus
Anduril Founded 2017	Costa Mesa, USA	$11.3B	A defense technology company that builds autonomous systems, software-defined hardware, and AI-powered command-and-control platforms for national security and border defense.
Antioch Founded 2025	New York, United States	$44.1M	Antioch provides a development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence.
Aidoptation Founded 2025	Sint-Truiden, Belgium	€25.0M	A commercial spin-off of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) developing 'Physical AI' and high-speed autonomous driving software for defense, public safety, and commercial mobility.
Airbound Founded 2020	Bengaluru, India	$45.65 million	Autonomous delivery logistics company building rocket-like drones to make deliveries available worldwide for less than one cent per delivery
Sitegeist Founded 2025	Munich, Germany	€4.0M	A robotics company developing AI-powered modular robots designed to automate hazardous and labor-intensive tasks in the construction and infrastructure maintenance sectors.
sees.ai Founded 2018	Chichester, United Kingdom	~$5.1M total (all rounds)	An AI-powered operating system for autonomous drone operations at scale, enabling Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for critical infrastructure inspection.
Qiyuan Robotics Founded 2025	Shanghai, China	Corporate Round	Consumer personal-robot brand (PrimeBOT/上纬启元) under STAR-Market-listed 上纬新材, launched by AgiBot co-founder Peng Zhihui, maker of the Qiyuan Q1 and Qiyuan T1 home humanoids.
LatentVerse Founded 2026	Beijing, China	$50.0M	Beijing-based embodied AI foundation model startup developing UTAM (Unified Tactile Action Model), a unified architecture integrating vision-language understanding, world modeling, action generation, and tactile feedback for robots.
Breaker Founded 2023	Austin, Texas, USA / Sydney, Australia	$8.37M + AU$1.2M IGP grant	A defense technology company developing an AI-powered operating system that enables military operators to control autonomous drone swarms and robotic systems using natural language commands.
Apera AI Founded 2018	Vancouver, Canada	Undisclosed	Apera AI provides 4D vision software to guide robotic automation, enhancing reliability and productivity in tasks like bin picking, assembly, and machine tending.
IG Defence Founded 2018	Noida, India	$6.55M	India's premier indigenous defence technology manufacturer specializing in combat-ready drones, counter-UAS systems, ISR platforms and AI-powered defence solutions.
Generalist AI Founded 2024	San Mateo, California, USA	$740M	Frontier AI research and product company building general-purpose robot foundation models (embodied AI) that let robots learn physical tasks from a single short demonstration.
XPeng Robotics Founded 2020	Guangzhou / Shenzhen, China	$1B	The humanoid robotics division of Chinese EV maker XPeng Inc., developer of the IRON general-purpose humanoid robot and Physical AI foundation models.
Galileo (Tianjin) Technology Co., Ltd. Founded 2013	Tianjin, China	Undisclosed	Chinese embodied-AI robotics company building quadruped, wheel-legged, and wheeled-legged-footed ground mobility robots for industrial and infrastructure applications.
Buildroid AI Founded 2025	San Francisco, USA	$2.1 million	Buildroid AI develops AI-powered construction robots to automate building processes, including block-laying and site execution via Digital Twin simulations.
Xiaomi Robotics Founded 2023	Beijing Yizhuang (Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area), China	$70M	Xiaomi Group's dedicated robotics subsidiary building embodied foundation models and humanoid robots (CyberOne, Tieda) for factory and general-purpose applications.
Tutor Intelligence Founded 2021	Watertown, Massachusetts, USA	$42 million	AI-powered warehouse robots designed for autonomous navigation and task execution in logistics and supply chain operations
RobCo Founded 2020	Munich, Germany	$160,000,000	A modular, AI-powered robotics platform that enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to automate industrial tasks through reconfigurable hardware and no-code software.
RLWRLD Inc. Founded 2024	Seoul, South Korea	$41M	RLWRLD is building robotics foundation models that give robots the ability to see, think, and use their hands like humans.
Akari Founded 2021	Tokyo, Japan	$36.3M	An AI startup from the University of Tokyo's Matsuo Lab that specializes in 'Physical AI' and vertical SaaS solutions to digitize Japan's core industries, including construction, manufacturing, and logistics.