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Robotics Startups

Updated October 2026

Companies in the robotics sector developing innovative solutions and technologies.

Explore 1,388 recently funded robotics companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
1,388
Total Funding
$267.9M
Avg Funding
$10.7M
Global Reach
6
countries

Top Cities for Robotics

Saint James
Bucharest
Akishima
Tokyo
Mountain View
Campbell

Recently Funded Companies

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Saint James, United States

Mechanismic provides after-school and camp programs, curricula, and tutorials for children using a robotics product.

$1.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Bucharest, Romania

Tailent(ex-MissionCritical) the opportunity to “recruit” a digital workforce of reusable software robots, alongside their human resources.

Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Akishima, Japan

Lebo robotics is a manufacturing firm that develops blade maintenance robot, blade AI analysis, and repair material services.

Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Tokyo, Japan

Legmin is an agritech company that develops agricultural robots and IoT devices as well as offers farming services.

$128K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Mountain View, United States

InOrbit is a cloud-based robot management platform to help robotics developers and operators scale their robot fleets.

Sep 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Campbell, United States

Summer Robotics is a machine vision company that builds robotic perception software for the industrial manufacturing and mobility markets.

Sep 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Diego, United States

Ocean Aero is an autonomous underwater and surface vehicle (AUSV) driven by wind and solar energy.

$4.0M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Brooklyn, United States

Destro AI coordinates warehouse and factory robots, people, and workflows with artificial intelligence software.

$8.0M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pittsburgh, United States

EKTO VR develops wearable robotic boots that allow for locomotion in virtual reality environments.

$50K raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Higashi-shinagawa, Japan

LOMBY is a robotic company that offers remote workforce and logistic support services for the last mile transport industry.

$2.5M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Arlington, United States

Quartermaster AI develops maritime technology designed to improve ocean awareness and vessel safety.

$100.0M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Chattanooga, United States

Branch Technology combines novel 3D printing technology, conventional construction materials, & large-scale robotics.

Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Fremont, United States

Everestlabs.AI develops an AI-based robotics technology to recover valuable recyclables.

$16.1M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Auckland, New Zealand

Rocos enables robotics companies to connect, monitor and control their robot fleets - globally

$18K raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Mateo, United States

Mendaera is a healthcare technology company that focuses on leveraging robotics, AI, and imaging to enhance patient care.

$73.0M raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

München, Germany

navel robotics brings empathy to robotics. Robot-as-a-Service - robotic beeings you want to be with for social care.

$754K raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

La Crescenta, United States

W8less offers intelligent motion solutions to enable accurate and reliable positioning for the internet of moving things.

$500K raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Antonio, United States

Renu Robotics develops autonomous electric vehicles with monitoring through mission control, operating under a software subscription model

Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santa Clara, United States

Trifo is an AI home robot company that helps people live better by doing work around the home.

$15.5M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Carlos, United States

Fully autonomous, AI-powered drone security system for commercial, industrial and residential properties

$14.9M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Toranomon, Japan

Zen Intelligence is a technology firm that provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.

$10.0M raised
Sep 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Autumn Labs is a platform for manufacturing observability and operations

Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Altrincham, United Kingdom

Vsim Technology offers physics simulations technologies for AI, robotics, VFX, research and the industrial metaverse.

$21.5M raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Weave Robotics is a Robotics Engineering firm offering Personal robots for the home.

Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Simplex generates on-demand vision datasets from 3D scenes to train AI models helping companies save time in data collection.

Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

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About the Robotics Startup Ecosystem

Robotics companies are developing autonomous systems for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer applications. The sector combines hardware engineering, artificial intelligence, and software to build machines that can perform tasks in physical environments.

Funding Trends in Robotics

Robotics companies typically require significant capital for hardware development, manufacturing, and deployment. Seed rounds fund prototyping and initial testing, while Series A and B rounds support production scaling and market expansion. The sector has attracted increasing interest from industrial and logistics investors.

Growth Outlook

The robotics sector is benefiting from advances in AI, computer vision, and sensor technology that make robots more capable and cost-effective. Warehouse automation, surgical robotics, agricultural robots, and autonomous vehicles represent high-growth sub-sectors.

Robotics Funding Breakdown

Here is how funding is distributed among the 1,388 robotics companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$10.7M
Total Funding Tracked
$267.9M
Countries Represented
6

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Robotics

1.San Francisco
3 companiesUndisclosed
2.Saint James
1 companies$1.0M
3.Bucharest
1 companiesUndisclosed
4.Akishima
1 companiesUndisclosed
5.Tokyo
1 companies$128K

Related Industries

Companies in the robotics sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.

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