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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: 244Key segments: industrial robotics, humanoids, autonomous systemsUpdated: June 29, 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
EyeROV Founded 2016	Kochi, India	$4.93M	A deep-tech marine robotics company providing AI-powered Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and underwater inspection solutions for critical infrastructure and defense.
1X Founded 2014	Palo Alto, California, United States	$137M total	An AI and robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid androids designed to work safely alongside humans using end-to-end neural networks and proprietary hardware.
Chef Robotics Founded 2019	San Francisco, CA, USA	$65.6 million	AI-powered robotic meal assembly systems designed to automate meal preparation for enhanced efficiency and consistency.
Foxglove Founded 2021	San Francisco, United States	$58M	Foxglove provides a data infrastructure and observability platform for robotics, enabling companies to build reliable autonomous systems through visualization, debugging, and data management tools.
Kodiak Robotics Founded 2018	Mountain View, California, USA	$540M	Kodiak Robotics develops AI-powered, driver-as-a-service autonomous vehicle technology for long-haul trucking and defense.
Theker Robotics Founded 2021	Barcelona, Spain	Approx. $109 million (€73M Series A + €21M seed)	Adaptive AI-powered robots designed for dynamic and complex industrial environments.
Glacier Founded 2019	San Francisco, CA, USA	$28.2 million	AI-powered robotic sorting systems designed to automate recycling processes, boost material recovery rates, and provide real-time analytics on waste streams.
Applied Intuition Founded 2017	Sunnyvale, California (Headquarters), with additional offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego, CA; Ft. Walton Beach, FL; Ann Arbor, MI; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Gothenburg, Sweden; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo.	Over $1.2 billion	A vehicle software supplier that provides an integrated toolchain for the development, testing, and deployment of autonomous systems at scale.
Machina Labs Founded 2019	Chatsworth, USA	$171.6M	An AI-driven manufacturing platform that utilizes robotic incremental forming to produce complex sheet metal parts without the need for custom tooling or dies.
10Beauty Founded 2020	Burlington, USA	$54.5M	A fully autonomous, salon-quality robotic platform designed to perform complete manicures—including polish removal, nail shaping, and precision application—without human intervention.
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.
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.
DroneDeploy Founded 2013	San Francisco, USA	$157M	DroneDeploy is a unified reality capture platform that provides cloud-based software for commercial drones and ground robots to capture, process, and analyze site data.
Sunday Robotics Founded 2024	Mountain View, United States	$200M	Sunday Robotics develops Memo, an AI-powered wheeled robot designed for practical household automation, trained on millions of episodes of everyday household routines.
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.
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.