Humanoid robot companies - makers, suppliers, researchers

Boston Dynamics

Robot Maker

Waltham, USA

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Figure AI

Robot Maker

Sunnyvale, USA

Figure AI develops general-purpose humanoid robots for both commercial and residential applications. Its lineup includes the Figure 01, which has been piloted in warehouse and manufacturing settings, and the Figure 02, designed for industrial tasks like automotive sheet-metal handling. The company is also prototyping the Figure 03 for household environments, using its Helix AI system for navigation in unstructured spaces.

Tesla

Robot Maker

Austin, USA

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and solar products. Founded in 2003, Tesla is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is known for models including Model S, 3, X, Y, Cybertruck, and its Optimus humanoid robot program.

Realbotix

Robot Maker

Las Vegas, USA

Realbotix Corp develops and manufactures lifelike AI-powered humanoid robots. The company unveiled its $175,000 female humanoid robot named Aria, featuring advanced artificial intelligence for realistic interactions. Realbotix Corp provides investors with presentation materials and maintains a public newsroom for company updates.

Agility Robotics

Robot Maker

Salem, USA

Oregon-based humanoid robotics company spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, best known for Digit — a bipedal humanoid robot designed for logistics and warehouse automation. Also offers Arc, a cloud platform for operating Digit fleets.

Fauna Robotics

Robot Maker

New York, USA

Fauna Robotics is an American robotics company that designs and assembles small-scale humanoid robots in the United States for consumer, educational, and everyday environments. Their flagship product, Sprout, is a commercially available humanoid platform built for home assistance tasks. The company also offers the Sprout Creator Edition, a variant targeted at research and developer use, positioning Fauna Robotics within the emerging market for accessible, entry-level humanoid platforms.

Faraday Future

Robot Maker

El Segundo, USA

Faraday Future is the parent brand of Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., an American electric vehicle company developing AI-powered mobility solutions including the FF 91 luxury EV and the Faraday X (FX) mass-market brand. The company also develops the Aegis, an AI-powered system designed for industrial, educational, and research applications, reflecting its effort to extend its vehicle technology stack into broader robotics and embodied AI domains.

1X Technologies

Robot Maker

Palo Alto, USA

Norwegian-American humanoid robotics company (formerly Halodi Robotics) developing general-purpose humanoid robots for home use, including its NEO consumer robot. The company is backed by OpenAI and EQT Ventures and began full-scale production in 2026.

Apptronik

Robot Maker

Austin, USA

Apptronik develops humanoid robots and other robotic systems intended to work alongside people and perform physical work. Its work spans humanoid mobility, manipulation, actuation, controls, mobile manipulation, and wearable robotics.

Amazon

Robot Maker

Seattle, USA

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Toyota Research Institute

Robot Maker

Los Altos, USA

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is Toyota Motor Corporation's R&D subsidiary focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, and materials science. TRI developed Large Behavior Models (LBMs) to advance general-purpose humanoid robots and partnered with Boston Dynamics to power the Atlas robot.

Stanford University

Robot Maker

Stanford, USA

Private research university in Stanford, California, with one of the world's foremost robotics research programs. The Stanford Robotics Center (SRC) houses 13 labs spanning CS, ME, EE, Bioengineering, and Aeronautics — researching field robotics, domestic robotics, medical robotics, humanoids, and autonomous systems.

Generalist AI

Robot Maker

Bay Area, CA and Boston, MA, USA

Generalist AI is building general-purpose robots by developing embodied foundation models focused on dexterity. The company combines large-scale AI, robotics, data, models, and hardware to enable robots to interact intelligently with the physical world.

Foundation

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Foundation develops autonomous machines designed for general-purpose physical work, with a focus on humanoid robotics. Its flagship product, the Phantom MK1, is a bipedal humanoid robot being piloted for industrial automation, logistics, and defense applications, building on the earlier Phantom platform. The company positions its systems as fully autonomous machines intended to perform a wide range of tasks traditionally done by humans.

New York University (NYU)

Robot Maker

New York City, USA

New York University is a major private research university founded in 1831 with campuses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai. Its robotics work is anchored by the NYU Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (CREO), launched in 2025 with over 70 researchers.

Mind Robotics

Robot Maker

Palo Alto, USA

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Physical Intelligence

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Physical Intelligence develops generalist robot foundation models — AI systems designed to control any robot for any task using a single model architecture. Their flagship π0 is a Vision-Language-Action model representing the state of the art in robot learning, with over $1B raised and a $5.6B valuation.

TetherIA

Robot Maker

Santa Clara, USA

TetherIA (also known as Chestnut Robotics) is a Silicon Valley-based full-stack robotics startup founded in January 2025, developing a dexterous robotic hand platform for general-purpose manipulation in humanoid and embodied AI systems. The hand uses tendon-driven actuation with 7 active degrees of freedom and 16 joints, with open-source CAD, firmware, and ROS2 support. The founding team includes engineers from Tesla Optimus, Apple Vision Pro, Waymo, and XPeng.

Bear Robotics

Robot Maker

Redwood City, USA

Bear Robotics is a Redwood City company building AI-powered service robots for the food service and hospitality industry, including the Servi robot that autonomously delivers food in restaurants and commercial kitchens.

Hello Robot

Robot Maker

Martinez, USA

Hello Robot is a US robotics company founded in 2017 by Aaron Edsinger and Charlie Kemp that develops the Stretch series of open-source mobile manipulator robots for developers and researchers working on assistive applications for older adults and people with disabilities. The Stretch RE2 features a lightweight arm on a compact, repositionable base designed for safe operation in human environments, with a software stack built entirely on open-source Python and ROS. The platform has been deployed in academic labs and pilot studies focused on in-home manipulation assistance, making it one of the more accessible research-oriented mobile manipulators on the market.

Richtech Robotics

Robot Maker

Las Vegas, USA

Richtech Robotics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RR) is a publicly traded company headquartered in Las Vegas, NV, developing advanced embodied AI robots for food service, retail, hospitality, industrial, and healthcare. Their robots include DEX (AI humanoid), Titan 440 AMR, and service robots for restaurant and hotel deployments. Founded in 2016, the company has 55 employees and a $402M market cap.

Machina Labs

Robot Maker

Chatsworth, USA

Machina Labs builds software-defined factories where AI-guided robotic systems execute the full metal forming and manufacturing process. Its RoboCraftsman platform produces complex production-grade metal structures directly from design files, serving defense, aerospace, and automotive customers without the need for traditional hard tooling.

Teradyne Robotics

Robot Maker

North Reading, USA

Teradyne Robotics is the industrial automation division of Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ: TER), a publicly traded test and automation company founded in 1960. The division owns Universal Robots (acquired 2015 for ~$315M), the world's leading collaborative robot maker, and Mobile Industrial Robots/MiR (acquired 2018 for up to $272M), a leading AMR manufacturer. In 2024 the robotics division generated approximately $365M in revenue.

IHMC Robotics

Robot Maker

Pensacola, USA

DRC-HUBO is a disaster-response bipedal humanoid robot developed by KAIST HuboLab and Rainbow Robotics (South Korea), based on the HUBO platform. Designed for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, it can switch between bipedal walking and wheeled locomotion by using its arms as extra legs for stability on rough terrain. DRC-HUBO features compliant joint control, independent finger control, and completed all 8 DRC tasks in under 45 minutes, winning first place and the $2 million prize at the DRC Finals 2015 in Pomona, California against 24 international teams.

Samsung / STAR Labs

Robot Maker

Mountain View, USA

Samsung STAR Labs is the advanced AI and robotics research division of Samsung Electronics, responsible for developing robot concepts such as the Ballie AI home companion robot first unveiled at CES 2020. In 2026, Samsung launched a dedicated humanoid robotics division (RX) targeting industrial automation, backed by its own robot AI platform and a Robot Data Factory at its Gumi manufacturing facility.

Covariant

Robot Maker

Emeryville, USA

Covariant developed the Covariant Brain, a foundation-model AI platform that powers robotic warehouse automation including item picking, sortation, and depalletization for mixed-SKU fulfillment. Its commercial systems include the Robotic Putwall for autonomous pick-and-sort operations and the RFM-1 robotic arm for warehouse pick and place. Founded in 2017 by UC Berkeley researchers and based in Emeryville, California, the company was acquired by Amazon Robotics in 2024, bringing its AI and grasping expertise into Amazon's broader warehouse automation efforts.

iRobot

Robot Maker

Bedford MA, USA

iRobot Corporation is an American consumer robotics company headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, best known for the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. Amazon's proposed acquisition was blocked by EU antitrust regulators in January 2024, leaving iRobot independent; the company subsequently laid off approximately 31% of its workforce and its CEO resigned. iRobot continues to operate independently and is listed on NASDAQ (IRBT).

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.

Robot Maker

El Segundo, USA

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) is an American EV and AI mobility company that designs, develops, and manufactures electric vehicles including the FF 91 and Faraday X (FX) brand. Operates in AI Electric Vehicle and Digital Assets segments.

Noble Machines

Robot Maker

Sunnyvale, USA

Noble Machines (formerly Under Control Robotics) is a Sunnyvale-based robotics company founded in 2024 by engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech. The company emerged from stealth in March 2026 deploying general-purpose robots for hazardous and physically demanding industrial tasks in manufacturing, construction, logistics, energy, and semiconductor industries.

Flexiv

Robot Maker

Santa Clara, USA

Flexiv develops adaptive robotic arms and mobile manipulation platforms that integrate force control, computer vision, and AI for industrial automation tasks such as precision assembly, screw fastening, polishing, and material handling. Its Rizon series and ENLIGHT robot apply force-sensitive control to complex manipulation in factory settings, while the GRAV platform extends these capabilities to mobile automation. The company also offers Mello, a humanoid robot designed for emotional support and mental wellness applications.

PickNik Robotics

Robot Maker

Boulder, USA

PickNik Robotics is a robotics software company specializing in the Robot Operating System (ROS) and motion planning, and is the primary maintainer of the open-source MoveIt project. They offer MoveIt Pro, a platform for developing robotic arm applications, serving sectors including mobile manipulation, space robotics, and multi-arm control.

WorkFar Technologies (USA)

Robot Maker

Dover, USA

WorkFar Technologies develops AI-powered humanoid robots and integrated automation systems for manufacturing, logistics, and other industrial environments. It also provides custom automation, industrial controls, fulfillment technologies, vision and data management, machine design, and conventional industrial robotics solutions.

Kyber Labs

Robot Maker

Brooklyn, USA

Kyber Labs develops affordable, fully backdrivable five-finger robotic hands with 20 degrees of freedom for general-purpose dexterous manipulation. Its hands use motor current sensing for touch feedback, eliminating the need for dedicated tactile sensors and reducing cost and complexity. The company targets high-mix low-volume manufacturing, lab workflows, and unstructured environments where versatile gripping is critical. By supplying dexterous end-effectors at accessible price points, Kyber Labs addresses one of the key hardware gaps in deploying humanoid and manipulation robots beyond structured factory settings.

Plus One Robotics

Robot Maker

San Antonio, USA

Plus One Robotics develops AI-powered computer vision software and robotic systems for parcel handling and logistics automation in warehouses and fulfillment centers.

PSYONIC

Robot Maker

San Diego, USA

PSYONIC is a US-based bionic technology company founded in 2015 by Aadeel Akhtar, headquartered in San Diego, California, that develops advanced prosthetic limbs with embedded robotics and sensory feedback. Its flagship product, the Ability Hand, is the fastest multi-grip bionic hand on the market and the only one made in the USA, with fingertip sensors that provide touch feedback to users. The Ability Hand is covered by insurance at no out-of-pocket cost to users, making advanced prosthetics accessible to a wide population of amputees.

Robot.com

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Robot.com is an autonomous mobile robotics company founded in 2017 and originally based in Medellin, Colombia, with significant US operations and deployments across 30 states. The company develops and deploys autonomous robots for last-mile delivery, logistics, advertising, and inspection, including the R-Kiwi delivery robot, R-Cargo logistics robot, and R-Noid humanoid warehouse robot, which feature Level 4 autonomy with LiDAR and computer vision navigation. Robot.com operates a fleet of over 500 robots serving Fortune 500 clients including Sodexo, Grubhub, and Aramark, and has raised over $63 million in funding.

MIT CSAIL

Robot Maker

Cambridge, USA

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is MIT's largest research lab, conducting foundational work in AI, robotics, computer systems, and programming languages. CSAIL researchers have produced influential work in robotic manipulation, perception, motion planning, and humanoid locomotion and balance, making it a cornerstone of academic robotics research. The lab also spins out companies and technologies through its affiliated startups and industry collaborations.

Roboligent Inc.

Robot Maker

Austin, USA

Roboligent Inc. is an American robotics company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, formerly known as LinkDyn Robotics. The company develops AI-powered force-controlled collaborative robots, including the Optimo robotic arm for advanced assembly, haptic rendering, and logistics automation, and the Regen rehabilitation robot for patients with neuromuscular impairments. Roboligent is expanding into humanoid robotics and in 2025 announced a collaboration to demonstrate a dual-arm humanoid robot capable of delicate object manipulation.

Chef Robotics

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Chef Robotics is a San Francisco AI robotics company building robotic arms for automated food assembly and meal production in commercial kitchens and large-scale food manufacturing facilities.

Cobalt Robotics

Robot Maker

San Mateo, USA

Cobalt Robotics, now operating as Cobalt AI, develops autonomous indoor security patrol robots that work alongside human guards to provide intruder detection, anomaly detection, and facility monitoring for enterprise environments. Founded in 2016 by Travis Deyle and Erik Schluntz, the company offers a Robotics-as-a-Service platform that combines mobile robots with remote human supervision for continuous building security. Cobalt has raised approximately $66.5 million to scale its patrol robotics deployed across offices, data centers, and other commercial facilities.

Dexterity Inc.

Robot Maker

Redwood City, USA

Dexterity, Inc. is a Redwood City, California-based AI robotics company founded in 2017 that develops industrial robotic systems with human-like dexterity for warehouse logistics applications including palletizing, depalletizing, truck loading, and container unloading. Its flagship Dexterity One platform is an AI-powered robotic arm system deployed at FedEx and UPS distribution centers, combining computer vision and force sensing for complex physical manipulation tasks in fulfillment environments. The company reached unicorn status in March 2025 at a $1.65 billion valuation, reflecting growing demand for dexterous automation in logistics operations where traditional industrial robotics have struggled.

IntBot

Robot Maker

Sunnyvale, USA

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Starship Technologies

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Pioneer in autonomous last-mile delivery using six-wheeled sidewalk robots. Founded by Skype co-founders, operating across 300+ service areas in 20+ countries with over 10 million deliveries completed. Robots operate at Level 4 autonomy delivering groceries, hot food, and packages at pedestrian speed.

Weave Robotics

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Weave Robotics builds home robots, including Isaac 0, a stationary laundry-folding robot, and Isaac 1, a home robot scheduled to begin shipping in fall 2026.

Sunday Robotics

Robot Maker

Mountain View, USA

Sunday Robotics (Sunday) is a Silicon Valley home robotics startup founded in 2024 by Stanford PhD roboticists Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi. It develops the Memo wheeled home robot with two arms for household tasks, targeting cat-level intelligence for domestic chores.

Disney

Robot Maker

Burbank, USA

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment company with a robotics research division that develops lifelike animatronic and free-roaming humanoid robots for theme park experiences.

General Robotics

Robot Maker

Boston, USA

General Robotics develops high-torque, simulation-ready joint actuators used in humanoid and legged robots. Their compact actuator modules target the performance, efficiency, and reliability demands of quadruped and bipedal platforms while reducing the sim-to-real gap for developers. By offering cost-optimized designs suited to series production, the company supplies a critical building block for scaling humanoid robot manufacturing.

Humble Robotics

Robot Maker

San Francisco, USA

Humble Robotics develops vision-first autonomous ground vehicles designed to haul a wide range of freight on low-cost, flexible platforms. The company applies physical AI to simplify logistics challenges, enabling autonomous navigation without reliance on expensive sensor suites like LiDAR. Its approach targets one of the core problems in commercial transportation: moving goods more efficiently using affordable, scalable robotic hardware.

Nuro

Robot Maker

Mountain View, USA

Nuro is an American autonomous vehicle technology company founded in 2016 by former Google Waymo engineers, now licensing its AI-powered Nuro Driver autonomy platform to automotive OEMs, commercial fleets, and ride-hail companies.

Rovex

Robot Maker

Gainesville, USA

Rovex develops autonomous hospital transport robots. Their flagship product Rovi is the world's first in-hospital transport robot designed to attach to any stretcher and enable patient transport while keeping patients informed and connected to their care team. The system uses computer vision for autonomous navigation through elevators and doors without major infrastructure modifications.

Serve Robotics

Robot Maker

Los Angeles, USA

Serve Robotics is an American technology company founded in 2017 that designs, develops, and operates autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for last-mile food and goods delivery. Originally launched as the robotics division of Postmates, it spun out as an independent company in 2021. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ (SERV) since April 2024 and has deployed over 2,000 robots across seven U.S. cities, making it the largest sidewalk delivery fleet in the country. Serve Robotics has partnerships with Uber Eats, DoorDash, and 7-Eleven, and has raised a total of $247M in funding.

Tutor Intelligence

Robot Maker

Watertown, USA

AI-powered robotics company offering a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model for warehouse and manufacturing automation. Founded out of MIT CSAIL, Tutor Intelligence deploys vertically integrated fleets of collaborative robots that work alongside humans in logistics and industrial environments.

Persona AI

Robot Maker

Houston, USA

Persona AI builds industrial humanoid robots purpose-built for heavy industry, targeting shipyards, steel fabrication, and energy infrastructure. Founded by NASA veterans, their robots are designed to perform skilled tasks such as welding, inspection, and fabrication in unstructured real-world environments.

Cyan Robotics

Robot Maker

Santa Monica, USA

青心意创 develops embodied-character intelligence and humanoid robots. Its Amoo and Orca robots share the Dino OS platform for navigation, interaction, manipulation, and multi-scenario deployment.

Ghost Robotics

Robot Maker

Philadelphia, USA

Ghost Robotics is a Philadelphia-based company founded in 2015 as a University of Pennsylvania spinoff, building legged unmanned ground vehicles for defense, security, and industrial applications. Its quadruped robots include the Vision 60, used by military and security agencies for perimeter surveillance, CBRNE reconnaissance, and industrial inspection, and the Spirit 40, a smaller and more affordable variant aimed at research institutions. The company was acquired by South Korean defense firm LIG Nex1 in a $240 million deal, strengthening its position in the autonomous ground robotics market.

Westwood Robotics

Robot Maker

Los Angeles, USA

Westwood Robotics is a humanoid robotics company founded by UCLA RoMeLa lab alumni, developing proprioceptive actuators and dynamic general-purpose humanoid robots. Their flagship THEMIS robot is a full-size humanoid platform featuring 40 degrees of freedom and proprietary BEAR actuators designed for manipulation, logistics, and service applications.

Dexmate

Robot Maker

Santa Clara, USA

Dexmate is a Santa Clara-based robotics company developing dexterous robotic hands and mobile humanoid platforms for industrial and research customers. Their flagship Vega robot is a 171cm dual-armed mobile humanoid with omni-directional mobility, designed for assembly, inspection, logistics, and advanced research applications. The company focuses on combining dexterous manipulation with full-body mobility to address complex real-world manipulation and navigation tasks.

OpenDroids

Robot Maker

Mountain View, USA

Droid brings design, sourcing, robotics, software, and integration together to automate business operations. The company builds modular robotic platforms, custom systems, and hardware for tasks ranging from coordinated manipulation to logistics and data collection.

Reflex Robotics

Robot Maker

Brooklyn, USA

Reflex Robotics builds wheeled mobile manipulator robots for warehouse and factory automation, featuring a torso with two arms mounted on a mobile base. The robots are currently operated via teleoperation to handle complex, unpredictable tasks in live logistics environments.

Boardwalk Robotics

Robot Maker

Pensacola, USA

Boardwalk Robotics offers Alex, an AI-powered robot for manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance. The robot is designed to enhance productivity and support rapid scaling of operations.