Humanoid robot companies - makers, suppliers, researchers

Hexagon Robotics

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Hexagon Robotics develops autonomous humanoid robots for industrial environments, building on the broader Hexagon group's expertise in precision measurement and industrial automation. Its flagship platform AEON is a full-scale humanoid currently in pilot deployment, targeting tasks such as manipulation, asset inspection, reality capture, battery and component manufacturing, and operator support. The company positions its humanoids as practical industrial workers for sectors where precision sensing and autonomous operation are critical.

ABB

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Swiss-Swedish multinational industrial automation and electrification technology company formed in 1988 from the merger of ASEA and BBC Brown Boveri, operating across electrification, motion, process automation, and robotics with roughly 110,000 employees worldwide.

Flexion Robotics

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Flexion Robotics develops an AI-driven autonomy platform that serves as a general-purpose intelligence layer for humanoid robots. The platform integrates reinforcement learning, language understanding, and whole-body control to enable robots to operate in industrial and logistics environments.

ANYbotics

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Swiss ETH Zurich spin-off founded in 2016 that develops AI-driven four-legged autonomous robots (ANYmal) for industrial inspection in hazardous and hard-to-reach environments including oil, gas, and mining.

Duatic

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Duatic builds autonomous dual-arm mobile manipulation systems for intralogistics. Its DXTR picks, moves, and places goods on existing warehouse layouts, while DynaArm, DuaTorso, and DuaRover are also available as standalone modules.

Mimic Robotics

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

Mimic Robotics is a Zurich-based ETH Zurich spin-off developing AI-powered dexterous robotic hands for industrial automation. The company uses generative AI trained on teleoperation data captured during live production to enable precise assembly and complex manipulation tasks. Its flagship product, the M1.0 robotic hand, is available commercially for manufacturing applications, drawing on team expertise from Google DeepMind and the Tesla Optimus program.

ORCA Dexterity is a humanoid robotics company. Public information is limited.

Bubble Robotics

Robot Maker

Dübendorf, Switzerland

Bubble Robotics develops autonomous surface and subsea robotic systems for continuous offshore inspection, surveying, and underwater monitoring, deploying resident motherships with modular underwater robots and an AI-powered operating system for offshore energy operators.

ORCA Hand / Soft Robotics Lab (ETH Zürich)

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

The Soft Robotics Lab (SRL) at ETH Zurich, led by Prof. Robert Katzschmann, develops compliant robotic systems including the ORCA Hand, an open-source 17-DoF tendon-driven anthropomorphic robotic hand with integrated tactile sensors assemblable in under 8 hours for approximately $2,000. ORCA (Open-Source, Reliable, Cost-Effective, Anthropomorphic) is released under MIT and Creative Commons licenses to accelerate dexterous manipulation research.

RIVR

Robot Maker

Zurich, Switzerland

RIVR builds General Physical AI by deploying autonomous legged robots for real-world doorstep delivery. It combines large-scale reinforcement learning in simulation with real-world self-supervised learning, owning the software and hardware stack to improve reliability, safety, and cost efficiency.

Embodied AI

Robot Maker

Lausanne, Switzerland

Embodied AI develops safe, AI-powered robotic systems for work by combining soft hardware, teleoperation, imitation learning, and vision-language-model orchestration. Its robots automate tasks in manufacturing and complex manipulation environments around people.

LEM Surgical

Robot Maker

Bern, Switzerland

LEM Surgical develops robotic-assisted surgical platforms focused on hard tissue procedures, with the Dynamis being its commercial robotic arm system for spine surgery. The company is working to expand the precision and clinical outcomes of orthopedic and spinal operations through purpose-built robotic hardware. Its narrow focus on bone and joint surgery positions it as a specialized entrant in the surgical robotics space alongside platforms like Mazor and ROSA Spine.