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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: 204Key segments: industrial robotics, humanoids, autonomous systemsUpdated: May 10, 2026

Robotics AI Market Snapshot

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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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A crawler-visible sample of companies from the AI Market Watch database.

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Company	Location	Funding	Focus
Blank Beauty Founded 2016	Knoxville, USA	$8.0M	A beauty technology startup utilizing AI-driven robotics to provide hyper-personalized, on-demand cosmetic manufacturing, replacing traditional mass production with a micro-factory model.
Performance Drone Works Founded 2018	Huntsville, USA	$154.0M	A defense-technology company specializing in the design and manufacture of autonomous, military-grade small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) engineered for contested environments and electronic warfare.
Anduril Founded 2017	Costa Mesa, USA	$6.31B	A defense technology company that builds autonomous systems, software-defined hardware, and AI-powered command-and-control platforms for national security and border defense.
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.
Unibose Founded 2016	Chennai, India	$930.0K	A deep-tech robotics startup developing ATEX Zone-0 certified autonomous robots designed for 'No-Man Entry' cleaning and inspection of hazardous industrial environments like oil and gas storage tanks.
Hadrian Founded 2020	Torrance, California, United States	$476.5M+	An AI-powered autonomous manufacturing company that builds highly automated, software-defined precision component factories for aerospace, defense, and space industries, delivering parts 10x faster than legacy suppliers.
Shield AI Founded 2015	San Diego, USA	$3.2B+	Defense technology company developing AI-powered autonomy software (Hivemind) and autonomous aircraft systems that enable unmanned platforms to operate independently in GPS- and communications-denied environments.
Neubility Founded 2017	Seoul, South Korea	$40.5M	A 'Physical AI' robotics company specializing in camera-based autonomous driving solutions and RaaS (Robot as a Service) platforms for urban delivery, security, and facility management.
Nauticus Robotics Founded 2014	Webster, Texas, USA	$351.2M	A developer of autonomous subsea robotics and AI-driven software designed to automate complex underwater tasks for the 'Blue Economy' without the need for traditional tethered support vessels.
EyeROV Founded 2016	Kochi, India	$3.5M	A deep-tech marine robotics company providing AI-powered Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and underwater inspection solutions for critical infrastructure and defense.
RideFlux Founded 2018	Jeju-si, South Korea	~55.2 Billion KRW ($41.5M)	A full-stack autonomous driving software developer enabling safer, driverless Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) across passenger and logistics sectors.
ZenO Founded 2024	Palo Alto, USA	Undisclosed	A decentralized data infrastructure platform designed to solve the 'data bottleneck' in Physical AI by collecting and managing high-quality, egocentric (POV) video and audio datasets for robotics training.
Mobiltech Founded 2017	Seoul, South Korea	$15.9M	An AI-powered 3D spatial intelligence platform providing hyper-realistic digital twins and high-precision mapping (HD Maps) for autonomous robots and smart city infrastructure.
Machina Labs Founded 2019	Chatsworth, USA	$47.6M	An AI-driven manufacturing platform that utilizes robotic incremental forming to produce complex sheet metal parts without the need for custom tooling or dies.
Robos Founded 2022	Daegu, South Korea	₩32.0B (Approx. $24.0M USD)	An AI-powered robotics startup specializing in 'Atypical Biometric Vision AI' to automate the entire slaughtering and meat processing line.
Waymo Founded 2009	Mountain View, USA	$27.0B	A leading autonomous driving technology company that develops and operates the world’s first fully autonomous commercial ride-hailing service.
Daim Research Founded 2020	Seoul, South Korea	$25.4M	Daim Research provides a 'Physical AI' and robot brain solution that orchestrates large-scale autonomous robot fleets for high-tech manufacturing and logistics sectors.
RobCo Founded 2020	Munich, Germany	$158,400,000	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.
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.
Vention Founded 2016	Montreal, Canada	$358.0M ($248M + $110M Series D)	A digital Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP) that enables users to design, program, order, and deploy industrial automation and robot cells directly from a web browser.