Physical AI Private Companies
Explore private companies connected to the Physical AI research universe, with evidence-led profiles mapped to the infrastructure and technologies they are building.
Machines get a body.
The compute, power, materials, sensing, motion and autonomy infrastructure moving intelligence into the physical world.
222 mapped companies
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- PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
1X Technologies
Norwegian-American maker of the NEO bipedal humanoid and EVE wheeled android, targeting home and enterprise labor.
Funding$123.5MLast public updateProduct · Sep 18, 20261X CEO Børnich: targets 50,000 robot shipments in 2027; Hayward (~10k/yr) will not hit 10k in 2026; San Carlos site +100k capacity late 2027Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Aalo Atomics
Austin startup mass-manufacturing small modular nuclear reactors, packaged as Aalo Pods to power AI data centers.
FundingSeries CLast public updatepartnership · Jul 30, 2026Crusoe partnership: >$200M commitment, nuclear-powered AI data center demo at INL 2027, Aalo Pods across Crusoe portfolio by 2029Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Accelsius
Two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling (NeuCool) for AI data centers; waterless, 4,500W+ per socket.
FundingSeries B ($65M, Jan 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 16, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
AeroVect
Silicon Valley autonomy company building self-driving systems for airport ground support equipment (GSE).
FundingSeries BLast public updateMedia · Apr 1, 2026AeroVect | Valuation, Funding Rounds & Stock PriceCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
AgiBot
Shanghai humanoid OEM building Yuanzheng full-size and Lingxi developer humanoids plus its own actuators, hands and embodied-AI models.
Funding$520MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Agile Robots SE
DLR spin-off selling force-torque-controlled arms, mobile platforms and the Agile ONE humanoid into industrial production lines.
Funding$800MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Agility Robotics
Oregon-based maker of Digit, a commercially deployed bipedal humanoid built for warehouse and logistics tote handling.
Funding$641MLast public updatepartnership · Oct 22, 2026Agility Robotics expands NVIDIA collaboration: Digit 5 standardizes on NVIDIA IGX Thor as exclusive onboard compute for general-availability units; NVIDIA Halos integrated into Digit safety system + Halos AI Systems Inspection LabCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Ambi Robotics
Parcel sortation and induction robots (AmbiSort, AmbiStack) running on the Dex-Net-derived AmbiOS sim-to-real stack.
FundingSeries B (2022)Last public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Amorphology
NASA/Caltech spinout making lubricant-free bulk-metallic-glass gears and components for robots and spacecraft.
FundingNot disclosedLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Amperesand
Maker of a medium-voltage solid-state transformer (MV SST) purpose-built for AI data centers; $80M Series A (Nov 2025) co-led by Walden Catalyst + Temasek.
Funding$92.5MLast public updateProfile · Oct 11, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Anode Technology Company
Eclipse-backed startup building battery-powered mobile microgrids as a cleaner alternative to diesel temporary power.
FundingSeed+Last public updateProfile · Oct 12, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Applied Intuition
Simulation, vehicle-OS and autonomy toolchain, now fronted by the Dana agentic platform for building physical AI.
FundingSeries FLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Apptronik
Austin maker of the Apollo humanoid, a general-purpose robot for manufacturing, warehousing and logistics with a Google DeepMind AI partnership.
Funding$403MLast public updateFinancing · Mar 18, 2025Series A — $403,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
ARIX Technologies
Robotic pipe-corrosion inspection and ML analytics for oil & gas and petrochemical plants.
Funding$21.3MLast public updateFacility · Oct 12, 2026Launches Canadian subsidiary and Alberta operations (Calgary) — VENUS sold as a managed inspection service, data in HELIOSCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Arris Composites
Additive Molding platform producing consolidated continuous-fibre carbon composite parts at moulding cycle times.
Funding$157MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Astribot
Shenzhen rope-driven humanoid maker selling the S1 wheeled platform and the T1 biped from RMB 89,900.
Funding$149.4MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Atomic Machines
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$250M primary round (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Augmentus
No-code, scan-to-path robot programming software for finishing, spraying and welding across major robot brands.
FundingSeries A+ ($11M, Jul 2025)Last public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Axelera AI
Dutch fabless startup building digital in-memory-compute edge AI inference chips (Metis, Europa) for robotics, defense and industrial edge.
Funding$450MLast public updateGovernance · Oct 8, 2026Appoints Osman Kent (3Dlabs co-founder, GPU pioneer) and Catherine Lewis La Torre CBE (ex-CEO, British Business Bank) as Non-Executive DirectorsCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Bedrock Robotics
Retrofit autonomy kits that turn existing excavators, dozers and loaders into autonomous machines.
Funding$350MLast public updateCustomer · Aug 17, 2026Bedrock Robotics launches first fully autonomous excavator deployments on live U.S. infrastructure sites — Sundt Construction (Nevada water treatment), Champion Site Prep (Texas, multi-million cu yd), Zachry Construction (1.2M cu yd civil sitework)Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Betacom
Three-decade wireless infrastructure firm delivering fully managed private 5G networks ('5G as a Service').
Funding$15MLast public updateFinancing · Oct 1, 2026Undisclosed — $15,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Birdstop, Inc.
Detroit-built Fealty autonomous security drone: a weatherproof drone-in-a-perch that launches in under 3 seconds and streams AI-detected aerial video to remote operators 24/7.
Funding$6.9MLast public updateProduct · Sep 15, 2026Management targets one order-of-magnitude production growth per yearCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Bota Systems
Swiss six-axis force-torque, joint-torque and tactile sensors plus a haptics and teleoperation data platform for robot learning.
Funding$2.5MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Bright Machines
Software-defined manufacturer using robotics and AI to assemble AI servers, racks and storage systems.
Funding$400MLast public updateProduct · Jul 29, 2026Expands the Bright Factory platform with Hybrid BRC — a human-access robotic cell with context-aware monitoring and full production traceability for AI-infrastructure manufacturingCompany profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Cambium Biomaterials, Inc.
Advanced-materials platform fusing AI molecular design with in-house composites manufacturing for defense, aerospace and space.
Funding$127MLast public updateMedia · Sep 9, 2026CompositesWorld feature profiles the combined Cambium/SHD model, the ApexShield resin line and 250-person headcount.Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Caracol
Turnkey large-format robotic additive manufacturing — Heron AM polymer, Vipra AM metal, Eidos software — plus part production.
FundingSeries B ($40M, Oct 2025)Last public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
CelePixel
Shanghai event-camera sensor designer (CeleX) — asynchronous pixel-level vision chips for ADAS, robotics and industrial use.
Funding$6.2MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Celona
Turnkey private 4G/5G LAN platform on CBRS spectrum, sold as enterprise IT and resold by Verizon and NTT.
Funding$100MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Chariot Defense
Software-defined battlefield power that senses, prioritizes and routes power across mission-critical systems.
Funding$41MLast public updateCustomer · Aug 24, 2026$7.6M DIU contract under the PRISM program - Amphora power systems to U.S. Army brigadesCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Chef Robotics
San Francisco physical-AI company selling AI-enabled robotic meal-assembly systems to food manufacturers on a RaaS model.
Funding$43.1MLast public updateProduct · Oct 7, 2026Chef Robotics builds food-manipulation stack on NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Omniverse / cuMotion; deployments report up to 60% higher labor productivityCompany profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Clone Robotics
Polish synthetic-human startup building musculoskeletal androids on water-hydraulic artificial muscles, starting with the Clone Hand.
Funding$17MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Collaborative Robotics
Maker of Proxie, a mobile collaborative robot (cobot) for material handling; deployed at Maersk and Mayo Clinic; $100M Series B (2024).
Funding$140MLast public updateProduct · Jun 1, 2026Proxie Gen 2 unveiled at Automate 2026: bimanual manipulation + autotaskingCompany profile ↗4 mapped investors - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Config
Seoul/San Jose startup building the data infrastructure and foundation models for general-purpose bimanual robot manipulation.
Funding$34MLast public updateCustomer · Oct 14, 2026LG CNS and Samsung SDS named as key partners in RX projects; Config passes 150,000 hours of collected action data with CFG-1 trained mainly on 100,000 hours of human task dataCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Contactile
Sydney UNSW spin-out selling optical pillar-array tactile sensors that measure 3D force, vibration and slip onset.
Funding$2.5MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Corintis
EPFL spin-off building microfluidic chip cooling - cold plates that can cut AI-chip temperatures up to 10x.
FundingSeries A+Last public updateGovernance · Jul 1, 2026Appoints Mindy Pyneeandee (ex-HP SVP, Enterprise Operations finance) as Chief Financial OfficerCompany profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Cortex AI
YC-backed supplier of egocentric workplace video and robot trajectories, annotated for embodied-AI world models.
Funding$6MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Covariant
Built the Covariant Brain and RFM-1 robotics foundation model for warehouse pick-and-place. Acquihired by Amazon (Aug 2024); entity continues as RFM-1 licensee.
Funding$222MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
cylib
RWTH Aachen spin-out recovering lithium/graphite/nickel/cobalt/manganese from battery black mass via water-based OLiC (90%+ efficiency).
Funding$88MLast public updateFacility · Jul 21, 2026Acquires Wernberg-Koeblitz (Bavaria) pre-processing plant - up to 10,000 t/yr end-of-life EV batteriesCompany profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
D-Robotics
Shanghai maker of RDK robotics dev kits and Sunrise BPU edge-AI silicon from 5 to 128 TOPS, with a ROS 2 toolchain.
Funding$770MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Daimon Robotics
Shenzhen visuotactile sensor maker pairing DM-Tac hardware with a tactile dataset and the Daimon-TWM world model.
FundingStrategic round (Aug 2026, Ant-led)Last public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Dalus
AI-powered collaborative systems-engineering platform for modeling and validating complex hardware systems.
Funding$500,000Last public updateProduct · Oct 1, 2026Dalus changelog 2026-10-01: Requirements List/Table/Graph views, Copilot Skills and Rules, Australian data-residency regionCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
David Energy
NYC retail energy provider installing free plug-in batteries to cut business electricity bills in Con Edison territory.
FundingSeries A+Last public updateMedia · Aug 10, 2026U.S. energy provider deploys plug-in batteries across 21 commercial kitchens to slash power costsCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Decart
Tel Aviv frontier lab building real-time video world models (Lucy, Oasis) plus a cross-silicon optimisation stack.
Funding$450MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
DexForce Technology
Company profile undergoing evidence review
FundingSeries B — RMB 1.0B (~$147M) (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Dexterity
Redwood City physical-AI company selling full-stack warehouse robots-as-a-service for truck loading, palletizing and parcel handling.
Funding$291MLast public updatepartnership · Sep 22, 2026Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity expand collaboration — RL030N 8-DoF arm platform production-ready for Dexterity Mech humanoid warehouse robots (trailer load/unload)Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
DG Matrix
Maker of the Interport multi-port solid-state transformer for AI data centers, utilities and EV fleets.
FundingSeries A ($60M, Feb 2026)Last public updateProduct · Oct 12, 2026Unveils Interport 360 Flex (Interport SST Cell + Interport OS) for NVIDIA MGX / 800 VDC AI factoriesCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Digital Metal, Inc.
Instant-quote, on-demand investment casting: upload a STEP file, get a price in seconds, and receive production-grade cast metal parts in days with no tooling and no order minimums.
Funding$2.5MLast public updateProduct · Oct 2, 2026Releases FastCast — GPU-accelerated metal casting simulation, public solver playgroundCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Divergent Technologies
DAPS factory-as-a-service: generative design plus in-house metal printing and tooling-free robotic assembly of large structures.
Funding$1BLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Dream Labs
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$90M Seed (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Druid Software
Irish supplier of the Raemis 4G/5G core software that enterprise, utility and public-safety private networks run on.
Funding$20MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
e-VAC Magnetics
US rare-earth NdFeB permanent-magnet maker (VAC Group) reshoring magnet supply for defense, EV and robotics.
Funding$335MLast public updateGovernance · Oct 13, 2026Energy Fuels amends ~$1.9B VAC acquisition terms after customer purported to terminate the Sumter supply agreementCompany profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Eccentric Machines, Inc.
Eccentric Machines is building Sentor, an AI-native actuator architecture that pushes reflex-like motion control down into the robot joint.
Funding$5MLast public updateMedia · Sep 19, 2026Forbes: RoboStrategy led Eccentric Machines' pre-seedCompany profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Edge Aerospace
Luxembourg startup building space-qualified orbital data-processing units for in-orbit compute and autonomy.
FundingPre-SeedLast public updateMedia · Aug 25, 2026Redwire to Manufacture Edge Aerospace Data Processing Units in USCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Edge AI Solutions
Man-portable RaaS robot for water/wastewater/stormwater pipeline inspection with cloud AI.
Funding$4MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Efficient Computer
Pittsburgh fabless chip startup whose Electron E1 spatial-dataflow processor claims 10-100x better energy efficiency than conventional CPUs.
Funding$173MLast public updateFinancing · Sep 29, 2026More than $97M Series B led by TQ Ventures; total funding $173M, proceeds to ship Electron E1 in volumeCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Eka Robotics
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$150M Series A (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Electric Fish
US maker of battery-integrated EV fast chargers that decouple charging speed from grid limits.
FundingSeed+Last public updateCustomer · Jul 7, 2026U.S. Energy expands Volt Vault line with ElectricFish 400squared battery-backed ultra-fast chargingCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Emberion
Finnish colloidal-quantum-dot SWIR sensor and camera maker — a Nokia spin-out acquired by Exosens in 2026.
Funding$6MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Emerald AI
Grid software that turns AI data centers into flexible, demand-responsive grid assets.
Funding$220MLast public updateMedia · Sep 17, 2026Emerald AI coalition targets 100GW of grid space for data centersCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
EnCharge AI
Analog in-memory computing AI accelerators that cut inference power, cost and CO2 versus GPUs.
Funding$144MLast public updateFinancing · Aug 24, 2026Series B — $144,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Eridale
Robotics-first fast-casual restaurants where the kitchen and the menu are engineered together.
FundingSeedLast public updateMedia · Jan 1, 2026Eridale 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & InvestorsCompany profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Etched
Frontier inference clusters — Sohu transformer-only ASIC + rack + software co-design — displacing NVIDIA GPUs for transformer inference; first rack delivered to Jane Street, >$1B in signed customer contracts.
Funding$1.9BLast public updateFinancing · Oct 5, 2026Reviewing inbound funding offers at $40B-$50B valuation, weeks after the $21B Series DCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
FAIRINO (FAIR Innovation)
Suzhou cobot maker that builds its own harmonic reducers, servos and controllers, now also supplying humanoid joint modules.
Funding$100MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Federated Wireless
Operator of the CBRS Spectrum Access System, now selling private 5G and 6 GHz AFC spectrum coordination.
FundingSeries DLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
FemtoAI
Full-stack AI silicon and compression that fits large models onto low-power edge devices.
FundingSeries A+Last public updateMedia · Jan 1, 2026femtoAI to Highlight its Sparse Processing Unit Edge AI Accelerator at CES 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
FieldAI
Irvine robotics-software lab building physics-first 'Field Foundation Models' that let any robot navigate unstructured, GPS-denied environments.
Funding$405MLast public updateMedia · Oct 11, 2026FieldAI nears $700 million round at $10 billion valuation (follow-on coverage; round not confirmed closed)Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Figure AI
Humanoid robotics OEM — Figure 03 humanoid robot + Helix vision-language-action model, deployed in BMW production.
Funding$1BLast public updateFinancing · Oct 7, 2026Nvidia has discussed investing another ~$1B in Figure at ~$38B pre-money (The Information; reported, not agreed)Company profile ↗2 mapped investors - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Firecell
Turnkey private 5G networks for industrial robots, workers and IoT in demanding sites.
Funding$16MLast public updateCustomer · Oct 21, 2026Infrabel selects Firecell for a four-year mobile private 5G testing + proof-of-concept platform (Belgian rail infrastructure manager)Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Flexion Robotics
Zurich humanoid autonomy lab — language reasoning, VLA motion generation and whole-body RL control, hardware-agnostic.
Funding$57.4MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivatePerception & Sensing
ForceN
Tier 1 force-torque sensing systems and edge intelligence for surgical, logistics and frontier robotics.
FundingSeries ALast public updateMedia · Oct 2, 2026ForceN to give a crash course on force and torque sensing for humanoids at RoboBusinessCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Formic Technologies
Robots-as-a-service for US mid-market manufacturers: palletising, case packing, machine tending and AMRs on a monthly fee.
Funding$52MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Foundry Robotics
AI-first contract manufacturer using VLA-driven modular robotic cells to assemble defence, battery and hardware products.
Funding$19MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Fourier Intelligence
Shanghai rehab-exoskeleton maker turned humanoid OEM — GR-1/GR-2/GR-3 platforms plus clinical robotics distribution.
Funding$246MLast public updateProfile · Oct 17, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Foxglove
Data and observability platform for Physical AI: capture, search and visualize multimodal robot data at petabyte scale.
FundingSeries BLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Freeform Future Corp.
SpaceX-alumni contract manufacturer running an AI-controlled multi-laser metal 3D printing factory as a service.
Funding$67MLast public updateFinancing · Feb 19, 2026$67M Series B (NVentures, Founders Fund, Threshold Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Linse Capital, AE Ventures, Apandion)Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Frontier Audio Labs
Voice-AI wearable that gives frontline workers and warfighters hands-free communication and situational awareness.
Funding$4.7MLast public updatepartnership · Sep 4, 2026Assaia partnership — Frontier voice interface integrated with Assaia ApronAI to capture aircraft-turnaround events hands-free and deliver audio alerts to ramp crewsCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Gecko Robotics
AI + robotics platform (climbing/flying/swimming robots + Cantilever software) to inspect, monitor and modernize critical infrastructure — Navy ships, power plants, pipelines.
Funding$347MLast public updateCustomer · Oct 20, 2026US Navy/GSA quadruple IDIQ ceiling to $300M from $71M — six months after the March award; Komodo deck-coating scanning folded into the expansionCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
GelSight
High-resolution tactile sensing and 3D surface metrology, invented at MIT and commercialised in 2011.
Funding$30.1MLast public updateProduct · Oct 15, 2026GelSight Modulus named to TIME Best Inventions of 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
General Compute
Neocloud that buys non-GPU AI silicon and sells dedicated inference capacity on one contract.
FundingSeries ALast public updateMedia · Oct 23, 2026General Compute to deploy Cerebras under $400M facilityCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
General Intuition
Frontier AI lab training world models on gameplay data so agents learn to act in space and time.
Funding$133.7MLast public updateMedia · Oct 2, 2026General Intuition raises $220M to train robot brains on 3 billion gaming videos per year (TBPN)Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
General Robotics
Ex-Microsoft robotics researchers building GRID, a robot-agnostic 'intelligence grid' that auto-engineers the deployment of industrial robots, humanoids, quadrupeds and drones.
Funding$33.7MLast public updatepartnership · Sep 30, 2026Named founding partner of Singapore's Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC)Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Generalist AI
Frontier lab building robot foundation models (GEN-0/GEN-1/GEN-1.5) for general physical intelligence; $400M at ~$2B (Jun 2026), NVIDIA-backed.
Funding$540MLast public updateFinancing · Aug 25, 2026$200M Series B extension led by 8VC at ~$3B valuation (round total $600M), disclosed via regulatory filing; two sourcesCompany profile ↗2 mapped investors - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Genesis AI
Universal robotics foundation model, simulation stack and the Eno general-purpose robot.
FundingSeries ALast public updateFinancing · Oct 13, 2026NVIDIA agrees to buy a minority strategic stake in Genesis AI (size and value undisclosed) — Reuters, confirmed by the companyCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
GENISOM AI
Beijing/Suzhou quadruped maker that has mass-produced 15,000 industrial robots and sells its own joint modules to the ecosystem.
FundingSeries B (Sep 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
GrayMatter Robotics
Robotics-as-a-Service surface finishing: self-programming robotic cells for sanding, polishing, deburring and spraying.
Funding$86MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Hadrian Automation
AI-powered precision-manufacturing platform building automated factories for US defense and aerospace, sold as manufacturing- and factories-as-a-service.
Funding$1.4BLast public updateCustomer · Oct 14, 2026Expands Lockheed Martin partnership into a first-of-its-kind 7-year agreement — Hadrian's Opus software + automated 24-machine machining cell deployed inside LM Missiles & Fire Control, Grand Prairie, TX (PAC-3 MSE, THAAD, PrSM, GMLRS)Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Hailo
Fabless edge-AI accelerator vendor: Hailo-8/Hailo-8L/Hailo-10H neural accelerators for on-device inference.
Funding$340MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Hellbender
Pittsburgh maker of edge-AI camera platforms manufactured in the US: perception hardware plus on-device software.
Funding$12.5MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Heron Power
Solid-state transformers and integrated power electronics for data centers, solar and storage.
FundingSeries B ($140M, Feb 2026)Last public updateCustomer · Oct 21, 2026Vantage Data Centers reserves >1GW of Heron Link solid-state transformer capacity for 800 VDC hyperscale campusesCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Hestus
AI autocomplete for CAD that removes repetitive sketching work for mechanical engineers.
FundingSeedLast public updateMedia · Mar 4, 2026all3dp: Hestus AI copilot for Fusion slashes design timesCompany profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Highway 9 Networks
Cloud-native private mobile/5G "mobile cloud" for enterprises, built for robots, factory automation and drones.
Funding$25MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Huixi Technology
Company profile undergoing evidence review
FundingSeries BLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Humanoid
UK industrial humanoid robotics company, Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn.
FundingSeries ALast public updatepartnership · Oct 21, 2026Humanoid expands NVIDIA collaboration — Jetson Thor-based robotic edge runtime integrating NVIDIA Isaac/OS, Sensor Bridge and Holoscan SDK for its next-generation humanoid robotsCompany profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Humatics
Microlocation and shared spatial reference giving robots and autonomous systems ground truth.
Funding$80MLast public updateFinancing · Sep 16, 2020Series B — $80,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Hyperscale Power
Zurich deep tech building rack-scale solid-state transformers: 13.8 kV AC in, 800 V DC out, 3.3 MW at 98.5% efficiency.
FundingSeed (EUR 5M, Mar 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
ICON Technology, Inc.
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$200M Series D (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Infiforce
Embodied brain plus full-stack embodied-data infrastructure (AtomBrain, DataGrid) sold into multiple robot bodies.
Funding$150MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
InOrbit.AI
Enterprise robot orchestration (RobOps) software: one control plane for heterogeneous robot fleets plus fixed infrastructure.
Funding$10MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Inspire Robots
Beijing maker of micro linear servo actuators and five-finger dexterous hands for robot OEMs.
FundingSeries C2 (Feb 2026)Last public updateProduct · Oct 15, 2026Inspire Robots launches RH37D1 fully direct-drive three-finger hand at CIIF 2026 (7 active DoF, 40 N fingertip force, 43 kg pull load)Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Jacobi Robotics
AI motion-planning software for industrial arms; first product is the Jacobi Palletizer for case palletizing.
Funding$5MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Kinetix AI
Shenzhen full-stack embodied AI: KaiBot humanoid, KaiHand, egocentric data engine and robotics foundation models.
Funding$75MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
KINEXON
UWB real-time location and sensor systems for factory, logistics and sports analytics.
Funding$130MLast public updateProfile · Oct 18, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Kite Magnetics
Aeroperm nanocrystalline alloy and stator cores that cut electric motor loss - longer range, less mass.
Funding$5.1MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Kneron
San Diego full-stack edge AI company selling on-device NPUs, software and AIoT kits.
Funding$190MLast public updateFinancing · Aug 24, 2026Series B — $190,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Lambda, Inc.
NVIDIA-backed neocloud that builds and operates gigawatt-scale GPU 'AI factories' and rents training and inference capacity to frontier labs, enterprises and hyperscalers.
Funding$2.4BLast public updatevaluation · Oct 6, 2026Reported final private round: up to $4B at $14.5B pre-money, led by Blackstone and CoatueCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Lightwheel Intelligence
Simulation and synthetic-data stack that trains and evaluates embodied AI before robots hit the factory floor.
Funding$293MLast public updateData · Aug 21, 2026Lightwheel opens EgoSuite-Open100K - 100,000 hours of annotated egocentric human data (first 10,000-hour EgoPro tranche live on Hugging Face); 300,000+ hours delivered, 20,000+/week across seven countriesCompany profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
LiquidStack
Two-phase and single-phase liquid immersion cooling tanks and modular plants for AI data centers. Acquired by Trane Technologies (completed 2026-03-03, announced 2026-02-10) — liquidstack.com/news.
Funding$35MLast public updateProduct · Sep 29, 2026Trane launches LiquidStack CDU 2.X - architecture-agnostic CDU, up to 3,750 lpm at 3.5 barCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Locus Robotics
Wilmington, MA maker of LocusBots, autonomous mobile robots that collaborate with warehouse workers for e-commerce fulfillment.
Funding$438MLast public updateData · Oct 20, 2026Locus Robotics research: Gen Z shoppers ~4x more likely than Boomers to buy with plans to return ('bracketing'), raising returns-handling and fulfillment-complexity demandsCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Luxonis
OAK edge-AI cameras that run neural inference and stereo depth on-device for robots and factories.
Funding$23MLast public updateFinancing · Jul 3, 2026Series A — $23,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Lyte AI
Perception stack for physical AI: custom silicon, 4D multimodal sensing and spatial software that let robots trust what they see.
Funding$272MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Machina Labs
Software-defined factories that form complex metal structures with AI-guided robotics, no hard tooling.
FundingSeries C ($124M, Feb 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Mass Magnetics
US maker of sintered rare-earth magnets from recycled scrap for motors, robotics and defense.
FundingSeedLast public updateMedia · Aug 28, 2026Mass Magnetics — Products, Competitors, Financials (Crunchbase/CB Insights)Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Matta
Industrial AI that makes factories sentient: camera-based agents for defect detection, metrology, counting and traceability.
Funding$14MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Maven Robotics
Santa Clara industrial robots for mixed-case palletizing, tote handling and factory assembly.
Funding$100MLast public updateFinancing · Sep 10, 2026$100M (Sep 2026) — $100,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Metalenz
Fabless meta-optics company shipping semiconductor-made lenses and polarization sensing into phones.
Funding$30MLast public updateProduct · May 4, 2026Announced Polar ID Under Display — payment-grade face authentication beneath a powered-on OLED display; demo at Display Week 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Micro1
AI data lab that interviews domain experts and sells labeled training data to frontier model builders.
FundingSeries BLast public updateData · Oct 9, 2026$1B / 12-month commitment to license enterprise operational data for reinforcement-learning environmentsCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
microagi
Munich robotics-deployment company whose Atlas platform fine-tunes robots on each factory's own data.
Funding$55MLast public updateMedia · Oct 23, 2026Microagi Says It Reached $100 Million Revenue Run Rate in Six MonthsCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
mimic robotics
Video-action models plus humanoid robotic hands that bring human-level dexterity to industrial work.
Funding$20MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Mind Robotics
Palo Alto industrial-robotics lab spun out of Rivian, building foundation models and hardware to automate factory dexterity tasks.
Funding$1.0BLast public updateGovernance · Oct 13, 2026Mind Robotics hires Doug Field (ex-Ford EV and software chief; ex-Tesla, ex-Apple) as President to scale its factory robotsCompany profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Monogoto
Software-defined cellular cloud that lets devices roam across public, private 5G and satellite on one subscription.
Funding$38MLast public updateMedia · Sep 24, 2026Monogoto Receives 2026 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award for the Second Consecutive YearCompany profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Morse Micro
Fabless Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) chipmaker: sub-GHz Wi-Fi with ~10x range and multi-year battery life for IoT.
Funding$193MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Motherboard Labs
Agentic field-operations software that keeps commercial robot and autonomous-machine fleets running: diagnose faults, fix remotely, and arm field technicians with the right context.
FundingPre-Seed (undisclosed)Last public updateGovernance · Oct 18, 2026Listing status verified: privately held, no public listing or acquisitionCompany profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Mulberry Industries
US vertically-integrated manufacturer of high-performance permanent magnets and electric motors/generators.
Funding$10MLast public updateProfile · Oct 24, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Multiply Labs
Robotic biomanufacturing infrastructure: closed, automated workcells that make cell and gene therapies at scale.
Funding$100MLast public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Mytra
Ex-Tesla team selling a three-part warehouse system — climbing bots, storage cells, software — that replaces aisles with a 3D matrix.
Funding$200MLast public updateFinancing · Jan 15, 2026$120M Series C led by Avenir Growth; Lineage + RyderVentures strategic; >$200M raised to dateCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Nazar Technology
Pre-launch industrial-technology company; no public product, customer or team disclosure as of Oct 2026.
FundingPre-SeedLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Neura Robotics
German cognitive-robotics maker of humanoids and mobile manipulators (4NE1, MAiRA, MAV) powered by an onboard physical-AI stack.
Funding$1.4BLast public updateProduct · Oct 22, 2026NEURA Robotics unveils 4NE1 Gen 4 humanoid at the TUM RoboGym opening in MunichCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Nevoya
AI-native all-electric trucking carrier at cost parity with diesel.
Funding$12.3MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Nimble Robotics
Fully autonomous robotic fulfilment: one general warehouse robot body doing every core task, sold as a service.
FundingSeries C $106M (Oct 2024)Last public updateProfile · Oct 19, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Niron Magnetics
University of Minnesota spin-out commercialising iron nitride permanent magnets that contain no rare earths.
Funding$271.8MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
NODE Robotics
Stuttgart Fraunhofer spin-out whose NODE.OS makes mixed fleets of AMRs and AGVs coordinate on one map.
FundingEarly-growth (Momenta, Feb 2025)Last public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Noveon Magnetics
San Marcos, Texas recycler-turned-manufacturer of sintered NdFeB magnets — the only US-based commercial maker.
Funding$75MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Novo Space
Modular SpaceVPX computers, boards and FPGA IP that let satellite builders reuse qualified electronics.
FundingSeries ALast public updateMedia · Jan 1, 2026Startup Spotlight: Novo Space builds modular computers for satellite constellationsCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Nox Metals, Inc.
Detroit-based, software-defined aluminum plate service center that quotes in seconds and ships cut-to-size aerospace-grade plate with mill certs, aiming to replace legacy metals distributors.
Funding$16.8MLast public updateFacility · Sep 2, 2026Moves out of Michigan Central (Corktown, Detroit) into a new factory in Ferndale, MichiganCompany profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Nscale
UK AI hyperscaler building vertically integrated GPU data centres, cloud compute and orchestration software.
FundingSeries CLast public updateFinancing · Oct 19, 2026IPO valuation pushback: investors argue for $16-19B vs ~$30B target (Bloomberg)Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Nuro
Mountain View autonomy company licensing its Level 4 'Nuro Driver' stack to auto and mobility partners.
Funding$2.3BLast public updateMedia · May 8, 2026Nuro gets California driverless permit for Lucid Gravity Uber robotaxiCompany profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Omen AI
Inline spectroscopic sensors that continuously monitor data-centre coolant and industrial machine fluids.
Funding$41.5MLast public updateFinancing · Jun 30, 2026Series A ($31M, Jun 2026) — $41,500,000 total disclosedCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Osaro
Warehouse picking software — SightWorks perception plus AutoModel — sold as retrofittable cells for picking, bagging and kitting.
Funding$86MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Oso Semiconductor
Fabless RF chip company commercialising ultra-low-loss beamforming chipsets for phased-array antennas.
FundingSeries ALast public updateMedia · Sep 15, 2026Transformer-based balanced-impedance phase shifters for beamforming (US 12,738,646)Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Panthalassa
Public-benefit company generating wave power in the open ocean and using it to run AI compute at sea.
FundingSeries B+Last public updateMedia · Aug 13, 2026Naver invests in US startup developing wave-powered AI data centersCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Parallel Domain
Turns real drive and flight logs into photoreal simulation replicas plus deterministic camera/lidar/radar simulation with a measured sim-to-real gap.
FundingSeries BLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Parallel Systems
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$100M+ Series C (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Parasail
AI deployment network aggregating GPU capacity across 40+ datacenters into one OpenAI-compatible on-demand inference API.
Funding$42MLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
PaXini Tech
Shenzhen tactile-sensor maker that moved a 6D Hall-array touch sensor into commercial volume, then built hands and a humanoid on top.
Funding$145MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Phaidra
DeepMind-alum AI agents that run cooling and power for AI data centres, sold as a supervisory layer over existing BMS/SCADA.
Funding$120MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Physical Intelligence
San Francisco robot foundation-model lab (pi) building one generalist robot brain (pi0-series VLAs) that controls any robot.
Funding$1.1BLast public updateMedia · Oct 16, 2026Physical Intelligence Hits $11B Valuation In $1B Round (Founders Fund led)Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Plus One Robotics
Vision and supervised-autonomy software that drives robotic parcel picking in warehouses.
Funding$94MLast public updateMedia · Oct 2, 2026Plus One Robotics enhances operations in one of FedEx's busiest facilitiesCompany profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Point One Navigation
RTK/SSR corrections network and sensor-fusion positioning software for drones, robots and autonomous vehicles.
FundingSeries CLast public updateMedia · Nov 21, 2025Point One Navigation Secures $35 Million in Series C FundingCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Polymath Robotics
YC software shop selling the generic autonomy and safety stack that off-highway vehicle programmes build on.
FundingNot disclosedLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Positron AI
Memory-first AI inference hardware (Atlas shipping, Asimov/Titan next-gen) built on commodity LPDDR5X to sidestep HBM/CoWoS constraints; deployed at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Funding$1.2BLast public updateFinancing · Sep 10, 2026$875M Series C at $5B post-money (two tranches: $375M Series C at $3.5B pre-money + up to $500M Series C-1)Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
PowerLattice
Vancouver, WA startup putting voltage regulation inside the processor package with a power-delivery chiplet.
Funding$31MLast public updateProfile · Oct 20, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Proception (Proception.AI)
Palo Alto startup building high-dexterity 22-DoF robot hands and the sensor glove that trains them.
Funding$11MLast public updateMedia · Oct 16, 2026Proception: ProHand 22-DoF hand and ProGlove data glove milestones; $11M seed led by First Round (undated retrospective)Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Prophesee
Event-based (neuromorphic) vision sensors, cameras and perception systems that report per-pixel change instead of full frames.
Funding$127MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Provocative
Stealth — vertically integrated AI infrastructure that removes CO2 from the atmosphere.
FundingNot disclosedLast public updateProfile · Oct 14, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
PSYONIC
Maker of the Ability Hand: a 490 g, touch-sensing bionic hand with 32 grip patterns, also pitched as a robot end-effector.
Funding$10MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Rajant
Kinetic Mesh private wireless: BreadCrumb nodes + InstaMesh routing that turn moving vehicles and robots into self-healing network infrastructure.
FundingSeries BLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Raven Space Systems
Automated composite manufacturing cells that print and microwave-cure aerospace and defence composite parts.
FundingPre-SeedLast public updateMedia · Oct 22, 2026Wins ACMI Horizon Manufacturing Cup grand prize — $1M non-dilutive, plus a scale path at ACMI's National Security Industrial HubCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Reactor
Ex-Apple Vision Pro and Luma AI founders building the real-time inference infrastructure layer for world models — a developer platform for running generative video, world models and robot policies at sub-50ms latency.
Funding$74MLast public updateProduct · Oct 21, 2026Reactor publishes the FastH3-Omni engineering deep dive (real-time video + synchronized audio; 5s 1344x768 clip 42s -> 14.7s on 4xB200)Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
RealSense
Independent Intel spinout selling stereo depth cameras, vision SoCs and perception software for robots. Cognex (NASDAQ: CGNX) agreed to acquire RealSense for ~$500M cash (~$606M all-in); close expected Q4 2026 — prnewswi
Funding$50MLast public updateMedia · Oct 2, 2026RealSense spins out from Intel, raises $50 million to drive robotics AI visionCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Realtime Robotics
Motion-planning software that automates robot paths and interlocks for multi-robot workcells.
FundingSeries B (Mitsubishi Electric-led, 2024)Last public updateMedia · Aug 14, 2026Realtime Robotics Appoints Kevin Carlin as CEO to Drive Next Phase of AI-Powered Industrial AutomationCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Reliable Robotics
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$115M Series D extension (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Rerun
Open-source SDK plus commercial multimodal database for physical AI: log, visualise and query robot, drone and AV sensor data.
Funding$17MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
RightHand Robotics
RightPick robotic piece-picking system: ML-driven picking across millions of SKUs for e-commerce, pharmacy and grocery fulfilment.
Funding$66MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
RISE Robotics
Beltdraulic linear actuation: fluid-free, high-force electric cylinders that replace hydraulics in liftgates, machines and defence kit.
Funding$29.4MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
RobCo
Modular, software-defined industrial robotics-as-a-service for mid-market manufacturers (no-code RobFlow + Physical AI); 1,000+ robots deployed, $1B valuation (Oct 2026).
Funding$100MLast public updatevaluation · Oct 5, 2026RobCo reaches $1B valuation via secondary share sale; CEO relocates to USCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Robust AI
Carter collaborative mobile robot plus a robotics cognitive engine for warehouse and manufacturing material handling.
FundingNot disclosedLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
SAEKI
Robots-as-a-service microfactories: autonomous cells that 3D-print, mill and inspect large parts near the customer.
Funding$6.7MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Sanctuary AI
Vancouver physical-AI company whose Carbon control system powers the Phoenix humanoid and, since 2026, existing commercial robots.
Funding$140MLast public updateData · Oct 5, 2026Sanctuary AI publishes TIGER — Task-Space Imitation Guidance for Efficient RL (arXiv 2610.07527), a reward-construction/pretraining framework for sparse-reward tabletop manipulationCompany profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Zhejiang Sankai Electromechanical
Company profile undergoing evidence review
FundingSeries BLast public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Scantinel Photonics
FMCW LiDAR on chip at 1550 nm: over 300 m range, simultaneous range and velocity, built for mass production.
Funding$10MLast public updateProfile · Oct 21, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Scout AI
Defense frontier-AI lab building Fury, a VLA foundation model that coordinates mixed unmanned fleets from commander intent.
Funding$115MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Sensei Robotics
Y Combinator-backed 'Scale AI for robotics data' — a marketplace of human operators collecting demonstration data on low-cost sensorised hardware.
Funding$625,000Last public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Sereact
Stuttgart robot-brain company: Cortex, a hardware-agnostic VLA + world model retrofitted onto existing warehouse and factory robots.
Funding$110MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Shadow Robot Company
London maker of the Shadow Dexterous Hand — the long-standing anthropomorphic hand and teleoperation platform behind OpenAI's Dactyl work.
Funding$11MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Sharpa
Singapore robotics company selling tactile dexterous hands, a wheeled humanoid and manipulation foundation models.
Funding$668MLast public updateDeployment · Oct 14, 2026Sharpa co-founder sets a 30,000-robot commercial target across restaurants, retail and hotels (disclosed 2026-10-12 at CIIF Shanghai)Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Sila Nanotechnologies
Silicon-carbon anode material (Titan Silicon) for lithium-ion cells, drop-in for graphite; scaling automotive volumes at Moses Lake, WA.
FundingPrivate equity round ($300M, Jul 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
SiLC Technologies
Silicon-photonics 4D+ FMCW LiDAR chip (Eyeonic) that gives machines range plus per-pixel velocity at low cost and power.
Funding$56MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
SiMa.ai
San Jose edge-AI silicon company selling the MLSoC and Palette software for on-device physical-AI inference.
Funding$355MLast public updatepartnership · Oct 5, 2026Wobot.ai partnership — reasoning-based video analytics runs on Modalix MLSoC PCIe card and SoM, on-premises at the edgeCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Skild AI
Pittsburgh lab building the Skild Brain, a cross-embodiment robotics foundation model that aims to control any robot for any task.
Funding$1.8BLast public updateCustomer · Oct 14, 2026Pittsburgh International Airport deploys four Skild AI-powered quadrupeds in the terminal (xBridge trial) to monitor air quality and assist staffCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Smack Technologies
Austin frontier-AI lab building domain-specific decision models and edge hardware for US national security.
FundingSeries BLast public updateFinancing · Sep 9, 2026Series BCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Somatic
Somatic builds the BCR, an autonomous mobile-manipulator robot that cleans commercial restrooms - toilets, urinals, floors and trash - sold as a flat monthly robots-as-a-service subscription to building owners.
Funding$21.2MLast public updateMedia · Jan 1, 2026This bathroom cleaning robot is trained in VR to clean up after youCompany profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Space Forge
Reusable orbital manufacturing (ForgeStar) producing semiconductors and alloys in microgravity — defect-free materials unattainable on Earth.
Funding$28.7MLast public updateFacility · Aug 17, 2026Master research agreement with The Texas A&M University System - framework for first U.S. semiconductor-materials facilityCompany profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
Spirit AI
Hangzhou embodied-AI company pairing Spirit VLA models with the Moz1 force-controlled humanoid; open-sources Spirit v1.5.
Funding$280MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Standard Bots
Glen Cove, NY maker of AI-native industrial arms (Spark/Core/Thor) starting at $29.5k, taught in plain language, built in the U.S.
Funding$63MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Submer
Liquid/immersion cooling plus a full AI-infrastructure group (thermal, modular DC, DC ops, GPUaaS); 500MW+ deployed, 8GW+ capacity.
FundingSeries C ($55.5M, Oct 2024)Last public updateProfile · Oct 11, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Sunday Robotics
Mountain View maker of Memo, a two-arm wheeled home robot trained on real-household data captured with its Skill Capture Glove.
Funding$200MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Swift Navigation
Centimeter-accurate GNSS: Piksi/Duro receivers plus Skylark cloud RTK corrections, sold into automotive ADAS, robotics and mapping.
Funding$200MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
SynSense
Neuromorphic 'sense + compute' company: event-driven ultra-low-power chips plus iniVation event-cameras for always-on edge sensing.
FundingSeries ALast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Syntiant
Irvine-based maker of ultralow-power Neural Decision Processors (NDPs) for always-on voice/sensor AI in battery-powered devices.
Funding$120MLast public updateProfile · Oct 22, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Tacta Systems
Dextrous Intelligence: a smart nervous system of tactile hardware + AI giving robots human-like touch and manipulation.
Funding$75MLast public updateMedia · Sep 30, 2026Tacta Systems opens Singapore facility to produce robot training glovesCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Tactical Edge Systems
Deployable power + elevated comms for austere/contested environments (OTower, GRWLR mesh, Moonshine Hydrogen).
FundingPre-SeedLast public updateMedia · Jan 15, 2026Learn Why Tactical Edge Systems Won NATO DIANA Phase 2 and is an Army xTech Search9 WinnerCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Tashan Technology
Tactile-sensing stack for humanoid hands: neuromorphic touch chips, fingertip and manipulator sensor arrays, tactile simulation and data collection.
FundingSeries B (Jul 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
TensorWave
All-AMD AI cloud purpose-built for memory-intensive training/inference — an open-ecosystem alternative to Nvidia-locked neoclouds.
Funding$493MLast public updateCustomer · Aug 10, 2026Fermi America binding lease: 222 MW at Project Matador (Carson County, TX), ~$6.5B over 15 yearsCompany profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Tenstorrent
RISC-V AI processors (Ascalon CPU + Tensix AI cores) sold as silicon and as licensable IP.
Funding$1.5BLast public updateGovernance · Oct 12, 2026Bloomberg: Intel AND Qualcomm both in early acquisition talks; dual-track sale/funding processCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Touchlab
Electronic-skin tactile sensors + software giving robots the sense of touch for dexterous manipulation.
Funding$4.8MLast public updateProduct · Jun 18, 2026Released TACTO tactile e-skin at ICRA 2026 (Vienna); official integrations with Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand and Tesollo DG-5FCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Tractian
Company profile undergoing evidence review
Funding$130M Series D (Oct 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 26, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
TriEye
CMOS-fabricated short-wave-infrared (SWIR) sensing chips that let machine vision see through rain, fog, dust and darkness at mass-market cost.
Funding$96MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
TwelveLabs
Multimodal video-understanding models (Marengo, Pegasus) that index and reason over existing video — a perception layer for physical AI.
Funding$207MLast public updateProduct · Oct 23, 2026Jockey reaches general availability — adds ChatGPT MCP support alongside Claude, URL/Google Drive/device ingestion, and MP4 reel exportCompany profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Uhnder
Fully software-defined 4D digital imaging radar-on-chip (Digital Code Modulation) for automotive ADAS, industrial automation and defense perception.
Funding$145MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Ultra Robotics
Dual-arm AI robots leased as a monthly service that pack e-commerce orders and process returns at existing warehouse workstations.
Funding$62MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
unspun
Vega/OneWeave 3D weaving machines enabling low-inventory, nearshore, cut-free apparel manufacturing.
FundingSeries B+Last public updateGovernance · Sep 28, 2026Strengthens leadership team with COO Deborah Palmer Keiser (ex-Gap, Victoria's Secret, Williams-Sonoma, AllSaints, Yeezy) and CCO Michael Rabin (ex-Morgan Tecnica Americas)Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Valstad Shipworks
Austin-based startup building AI-planned robotic fabrication cells and precision structural steel panel kits to automate ship panel assembly for U.S. commercial and naval shipyards.
Funding$8.6MLast public updateFinancing · Aug 14, 2026Seed-stage Form D: $8.62M sold of $11.3M offeringCompany profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Vecna Robotics
Autonomous mobile robots plus the Pivotal orchestration software that coordinates case picking, forklifts, tuggers and pallet jacks in brownfield warehouses.
Funding$31M (Sep 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateEdge Compute & Control Silicon
Velaura AI
Ultra-low-power silicon and IP (Titan Core) licensed to chip designers to cut the energy per AI arithmetic operation by 2-4x, plus a Physical AI SoC.
Funding$344MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Vention
Cloud-based, AI-powered platform combining modular hardware + software to design, order and deploy factory automation.
Funding$155MLast public updateProduct · Sep 10, 2026At IMTS 2026 (Sept 14-19, Chicago): unveils Physical AI and Agentic AI on one platform — MachineAgent agentic cell plus Rapid Operator AI deep bin picking and GRIIP goal-driven collision-free path planningCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Verne Robotics
Bimanual robot arms with in-house manipulation foundation models that learn new tasks in hours, deployed as pay-by-the-hour physical labor on U.S. factory floors and in labs.
Funding$500,000Last public updateDeployment · May 1, 2026'Verne Van' road tour adapts robots on-site in hoursCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Verobotics
AI-powered robots for high-rise facade cleaning, inspection and predictive maintenance.
Funding$9MLast public updateCustomer · May 20, 2026Deploys façade robots at NVIDIA's Israel campus — ~100,000 sq ft and ~3,000 windows cleaned/inspected, ~20,000 images captured, 40 anomalies flagged for engineering reviewCompany profile ↗1 mapped investor - PrivateGrid, Power & Thermal Infrastructure
Verse
Energy software (Aria + Dispatch Intelligence) that dispatches behind-the-meter batteries so AI data centers clear interconnection queues years sooner.
FundingSeries B ($54M, Jun 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Voyant Photonics
Silicon-photonics FMCW LiDAR on a single chip - thousands of optical elements on one CMOS die, packaged as the solid-state Helium sensor line.
Funding$19.7MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Vulcan Elements
U.S. sintered NdFeB rare-earth magnet manufacturer - producing at Research Triangle Park and building a 1.1M sq ft Benson, NC plant.
Funding$65MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateMaterials & Critical Components
Vulkam
French deep-tech industrialising amorphous metals (Vulkalloys) into millimetre-scale precision parts for watchmaking, medical devices and aerospace.
Funding$34MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Walden Robotics
Full-stack Physical AI: general-purpose robots plus Large Behavior Model policies and an expert operations team, deployed in live manufacturing and logistics.
Funding$300MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateAutonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets
Wandercraft
Self-balancing robotic mobility: the CE-marked Atalante X hands-free walking exoskeleton, the Eve personal exoskeleton and the Calvin-40 humanoid.
Funding$75MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Westmag (Western Magnetics Company)
American BLDC drone motors and robot actuators (NDAA-compliant) for UAS and robotics OEMs.
Funding$11MLast public updateMedia · Jun 3, 2026Westmag Raises $11M To Build American Drone Motors, Betting Scale Beats China On PriceCompany profile - PrivateManufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation
Wilder Industries
Aerospace manufacturing + automation group: autonomous MRO robots (Wilder Systems) and airframe parts (Hughes Bros.).
FundingSeed+Last public updateMedia · Oct 2, 2026RoboDK software helps cut aircraft washing time by 95%Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
Wirepas
Hardware-agnostic NR+ mesh-networking software for massive industrial IoT - 20M+ devices, including a single mesh of over a million smart meters.
FundingVenture debt (EIB, 2026)Last public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
X Square Robot
Shenzhen embodied-AI lab: the WALL world-model/VLA foundation-model series plus in-house QUANTA wheeled humanoid robots and the ArtiXon dexterous hand.
Funding$140MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateSim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation
XDOF
Robot training data pipelines, teleoperation and annotation tools; released the ABC-130K open dataset.
Funding$70MLast public updateFinancing · Sep 8, 2026Series A — $70,000,000 total disclosedCompany profile - PrivatePerception & Sensing
Xense Robotics
Shanghai visuotactile sensing: marker-free optical tactile sensors giving robots 3D shape, six-axis force and slip sensing, plus simulation and VTLA control.
FundingPre-ALast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateActuation & Motion Control
Xynova (Xynova Future)
Hangzhou dexterous-hand and micro-actuator supplier: Flex 1/2 hands plus the micro electric cylinders and joint modules that drive them.
Funding$148MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateConnectivity, RF & Positioning
ZaiNar
Turns existing 5G and WiFi networks into a positioning system via sub-nanosecond time sync - sub-10cm accuracy indoors and where GPS fails.
Funding$100MLast public updateProfile · Oct 23, 2026Company profile - PrivateAI Factory & Cloud Training Infrastructure
Zinite
High-performance z-axis thin-film transistor enabling true 3D chip stacking; node/substrate-agnostic.
FundingSeries A+Last public updateMedia · Oct 2, 2026Zinite, ALBERTA - Canadian Innovators member profileCompany profile