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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
$48.9M
Avg Funding
$2.0M
Global Reach
9
countries

Top Cities for Robotics

Cambridge
Chiswick
London
Seattle
Best
Higashi-shinagawa

Recently Funded Companies

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Cambridge, United States

MorphoAI is a software tool that allows users to design, generate and identify robots and machines.

Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Chiswick, United Kingdom

Hammer Missions offers an AI software platform to digitize and inspect critical built infrastructure using commercial drones.

$1.8M raised
Apr 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup.

Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Seattle, United States

Artly Coffee develops a robot barista that learns various coffee-making techniques from human baristas.

$3.5M raised
Apr 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Best, The Netherlands

Smart Robotics, the agency for robots, delivers flexible robotic solutions.

$11.8M raised
Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Higashi-shinagawa, Japan

Ugo is a robotics solutions company that creates sustainable work environments by combining humans and robots.

Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Austin, United States

Contoro Robotics is a robotics startup that combines artificial intelligence and human intelligence with teleoperation.

Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Farum, Denmark

Fable - an educational modular robot system for teaching STEM and 21st century skills to students ranging from 3nd grade to university.

$1.2M raised
Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pasadena, United States

Impossible Metals is building underwater robotics vehicles which mine battery metals responsibly from the seabed.

Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Seeing Systems designs and builds autonomous hardware using AI and computer vision.

Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Boston, United States

BOXOLOGIC Box-on-Demand Robotics

Apr 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Kyiv, Ukraine

Frontline is a defense technology developer working to establish new rules of battle in which robots would replace humans.

Apr 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Provo, United States

Inertial Sense provides autonomy-as-a-service for robotics vehicles in outdoor applications

Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Singapore, Singapore

Building the Trust Infrastructure for Physical AI

$250K raised
Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Wilmington, United States

Robotic Actuators Company offers autonomous mobility robots with a reconfigurable motion platform.

$350K raised
Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Giuliano Terme, Italy

Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.

$4.9M raised
Apr 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Dublin, Ireland

Akara Robotics develops AI-powered technology to help hospitals reduce downtime and increase capacity

$2.7M raised
Apr 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Robotics and AI to make Restaurants as scalable as SaaS

$1.8M raised
Apr 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Norwich, United Kingdom

Academy of Robotics is a technology company specialising in creating robotic technology to perform or simplify complex tasks

$643K raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Bristol, United Kingdom

Vaarst develops robotic analytic solutions for marine applications.

$19.9M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Novato, United States

Kray Protection - the most efficient form of crop protection application. It is industrial productivity drone built by Kray Technologies.

$100K raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santa Clara, United States

Flexiv Ltd. is a global leading general-purpose robotics company, focusing on developing and manufacturing adaptive robots.

Mar 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Columbus, United States

READY Robotics seeks to empower manufacturers to be more competitive through industrial robots.

Mar 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pittsburgh, United States

KEF Robotics is a robotics software development company.

Mar 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pittsburgh, United States

ESTAT Actuation is a developer of electroadhesive clutches to make robots or machines more capable and affordable.

Mar 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
$2.0M
Total Funding Tracked
$48.9M
Countries Represented
9

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Robotics

1.London
3 companies$1.8M
2.Pittsburgh
2 companiesUndisclosed
3.Cambridge
1 companiesUndisclosed
4.Chiswick
1 companies$1.8M
5.Seattle
1 companies$3.5M

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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