🚀 Robotics Startups to Watch
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Servi robot in Chili's and Denny's — robot-as-a-service for restaurants
⭐ In Chili's and Denny's nationwide — $999/month subscription replaces $25/hr labor
Backed by: SoftBank, LG Electronics
China's most dexterous humanoid hands for factory use
⭐ Galbot hands can open any door, pick any object — tested in 50+ factory scenarios
Backed by: Meituan, Matrix Partners China
Industrial inspection quadrupeds for power plants and mines
⭐ 500+ enterprise clients — quadrupeds operating 24/7 in nuclear and mining sites
Backed by: IDG Capital, Sequoia China
ANYmal — industrial inspection robot in oil rigs and nuclear plants
⭐ ANYmal deployed in ATEX Zone 1 — can operate in explosive gas environments
Backed by: Swisscom Ventures, Equinor (customer)
Flippy — the burger-flipping robot at White Castle
⭐ Flippy 2 fries 300+ lbs of food per day — deployed in White Castle since 2021
Backed by: White Castle (partner)
Self-balancing exoskeleton — paraplegic patients walk hands-free
⭐ Only fully hands-free exoskeleton — paraplegic patients walk without crutches
Backed by: Bpifrance
Robot arms replace stamping dies for aerospace metal forming
⭐ SpaceX and US Air Force customer — robot arms replace $1M+ stamping dies
Backed by: Salesforce Ventures, SpaceX (customer)
Climbing robots inspect aircraft fuselages and storage tanks
⭐ Climbs aircraft fuselage without scaffolding — saves Airbus $100k+ per inspection
Backed by: Airbus Ventures
Full-size humanoid targeting automotive factories
⭐ Forerunner K2 walking at 6 km/h — among fastest Chinese full-size humanoids
Backed by: Government funds
Incisionless surgical robotic technology for minimally invasive procedures.
⭐ Pioneering incisionless surgical robotic technology platform
Carter warehouse robot — co-founded by iRobot's Rodney Brooks
⭐ Founded by Rodney Brooks — creator of Roomba and pioneer of behavior-based robotics
Backed by: Tiger Global
Stretch — affordable home research robot for manipulation
⭐ Stretch 3 at $19,950 — most affordable capable home manipulation robot
Backed by: Toyota Research Institute
TUG robot in 1,000+ hospitals — millions of miles of deliveries
⭐ 1,000+ hospitals, millions of miles — most deployed hospital robot ever
Backed by: ST Engineering
Pepper + NAO — 20,000+ social robots deployed worldwide
⭐ NAO used in 70+ countries for research — 10,000+ units in universities worldwide
Backed by: SoftBank Group