The robotics stack, from the parts and data that go in to the robots doing real work. 133 companies, 62 of them in more than one layer.
Tap a layer to filter. Lines join layers that share companies; thicker means more companies.
NEO home humanoid and its own world model
Industrial robot arms and automation
Machine intelligence for welding (YC X26)
Humanoids plus a large robot-data collection operation
Digit humanoid, deployed in logistics warehouses
Dual-arm robot built for physical AI (YC X25)
Autonomous defense systems
Autonomous CNC factories (YC F26)
ANYmal legged inspection robots
Simulation, validation and autonomy software for vehicles and machines
Apollo humanoid for manufacturing and logistics
Safety layer so robots operate safely in the real world (YC F26)
Monitoring for industrial robots (YC S24)
Inspection and maintenance robots for data centers (YC X25)
Atlas, Spot and Stretch robots
Software-defined assembly automation
Autonomous solar piling robots
LaserWeeder for farms
World models for automating physical industries (a16z speedrun)
Proxie mobile manipulator for hospitals and warehouses
Industry-specific benchmarks and evals for robot models (a16z speedrun)
Large-scale real-world robot and human data (YC F25)
Autonomous construction robots (YC S26)
RFM-1 robotics foundation model
Autonomous robots to run data centers (a16z speedrun)
Training-data R&D engine for physical AI (YC S26)
Robots for e-commerce returns, kitting and FBA prep (YC F26)
AI robots for truck loading and parcels
Moxi hospital delivery robot
Real-time cloud inference for robots (YC F26)
Falcon digital-twin simulator for robots
Layout-printing robots for construction
Foundation-model-driven robots for commercial tasks
Military exoskeletons (YC S26)
Debugging and observability for complex hardware (YC S24)
Real-world RL environments for robot models (YC S26)
Data management and annotation for multimodal and robot data
Ameca expressive humanoid
Industrial robots and CNC systems
Field foundation models for robots in unstructured sites
General-purpose humanoid robots and the Helix VLA model
Scenario-based testing for autonomous systems
Modular autonomous factories for metal fabrication (YC F25)
Fleet management and teleoperation for robots
Robots-as-a-service for manufacturers
GR-series humanoids and rehab robots
Visualization and observability for robotics data
Wheeled humanoids for retail and factories
High-resolution tactile sensors
Deployment infrastructure for physical AI (YC X26)
Embodied foundation models trained on large real-world data
Physics simulation plus robot foundation models
Quadrupeds for defense and inspection
Gemini Robotics models and the MuJoCo simulator
Automated precision factories for aerospace and defense
Strain-wave gears for robot joints
Lidar for robots and vehicles
Sim-to-real data generation for robot training
Real-world training data for AI labs and robotics (YC X26)
Open-source robot learning library, models and datasets
UK humanoid startup building HMND 01
Personal AI robots (YC F24)
Robot operations and orchestration platform
Depth cameras for robot perception
Alphabet's robotics software platform (Flowstate)
da Vinci surgical robots
Industrial robots and automation systems
Autonomous mobile robots for warehouse picking
Robotic sheet-metal forming
US-made rare-earth magnets for robots and defense (YC S26)
Vision-only home cleaning robots
Precision motors and drives
Industrial robots that learn tasks like people do (YC X25)
MenteeBot humanoid
Configuration management for robot fleets (YC S24)
Agentic operations for autonomous fleets (a16z speedrun)
Better data collection for robotics (a16z speedrun)
Modular 3D storage and retrieval systems
Cognitive cobots and the 4NE-1 humanoid
NORI A3, a low-cost bimanual robot (YC S26)
Isaac Sim, GR00T models and Jetson Thor compute
Robot arms for repetitive work in existing factories (YC F26)
Quick-turn motors and actuators (YC F26)
Stewards of ROS and Gazebo
Affordable humanoid robots built to deploy at scale (YC S26)
Digital lidar sensors
Synthetic sensor data for perception training
AI welding robots
Open-source general-purpose robotics research (YC F25)
π0 general-purpose robot foundation models
Autonomous robots for inspection and site work (YC S25)
Chore-doing home humanoids for the price of a phone (YC F25)
AI for robot arms in factories (YC W24)
Advanced dexterous hands for humanoids (YC W25)
Robots that maintain and assemble data centers (YC S26)
Ability Hand bionic and robot hands
Robots for dexterous warehouse tasks (YC W26)
Logging and visualization for multimodal robot data
Evals for robots (YC S26)
Computer-vision datasets, training and deployment
Grippers and tooling for cobots
Evaluation infrastructure for robotics (YC F26)
Phoenix humanoid with dexterous hands
Data engine including physical-AI and teleoperation data
Physical AI for autonomous robots (a16z speedrun)
Grippers and clamping technology
Labeling platform for multi-sensor robotics data
Robot training data at scale (YC S24)
Sidewalk delivery robots
Robots that unload shipping containers (YC W26)
Dexterous robot hands
Actuators for physical AI (YC F26)
Skild Brain, a general robot foundation model
Autonomous drones for defense and inspection
Low-cost industrial arms trained with AI
Sidewalk delivery robots
AI warehouse automation systems
Chips that merge compute and vision (YC S26)
Robotic factories that build robots (YC S26)
Home robots, founded by Kyle Vogt
Humanoids that restock retail shelves and pick orders (YC F26)
Large behavior models for dexterous robots
Walker humanoids for factories
General-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks (YC S24)
Low-cost quadrupeds and humanoids
Collaborative robot arms
Software platform to build and run robots
Data and deployment infrastructure for physical AI (a16z speedrun)
FiftyOne visual data curation tools
LLMs that control robots (YC S26)
Autonomous ride-hailing
Isaac home robot
Autonomous drone delivery
Every company’s site was checked on October 26, 2026; companies that shut down or were bought outright are left out. Inspired by roboticsmap.org.