PHYSICAL AI · CURRENT STAGE
Physical AI companies by current stage
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OBSERVED · OPEN POSTINGS · 2026-11-15
Role mix of open postings, by stage
For the 142 companies with five or more open postings, we computed each company’s role mix first and then averaged it by stage, so no single company decides a number. Cells clearly above the overall average are shaded.
| Stage | Software & AI | Mechanical | Controls | Field | Sales & BD | Quality | Production | Planning & admin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All stages 142 companies | 33% | 8% | 19% | 12% | 12% | 5% | 6% | 5% |
| R&D · prototype 15 companies | 38% | 9% | 19% | 12% | 7% | 3% | 5% | 6% |
| Pilot · first production 27 companies | 42% | 8% | 18% | 11% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 5% |
| Scaling production 26 companies | 21% | 10% | 21% | 11% | 13% | 9% | 8% | 6% |
| Operations · field rollout 42 companies | 36% | 8% | 17% | 10% | 14% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Going global · localizing 17 companies | 36% | 7% | 19% | 17% | 7% | 2% | 5% | 8% |
| Restructuring 11 companies | 26% | 8% | 18% | 16% | 21% | 3% | 7% | 1% |
Only postings with a role family count (38% of open postings) · stages with fewer than 10 companies are hidden · no company names · observed, not a forecast · updated weekly
R&D · prototype 32 companies
Building and validating technology and prototypes
Role mix of open postings at 15 companies in this stage (observed)
- Software & AI 38%
- Controls 19%
- Field 12%
- Mechanical 9%
- RhOSA Shanghai physical AI company building world models and robot hardware together
Publication and revision of the research report on the multi-agent world model Khora
- Ludo Roboticsa robot-brain research unit founded by a game company
Ludi 0.2 robot AI responding to human intent and feedback unveiled at a research event
- Bleu Roboticssoftware that teaches humanoids factory work
Early funding raised to develop and expand humanoid learning software; repeat deployments unconfirmed
- MinebeaMitsumia bearing company moving into making the joints, muscles and nerves of robots
Stronger R&D base through a Yonago X-Tech Base gathering motor development and design staff
- PLAIFTeaching dual-arm robots the assembly work once done by two human hands
Development MOU with Tokyo Boeki for joint validation of market viability and technical applicability of assembly automation in Japan
- REVEL RoboticsA young Prague robotics company turning human skills into robots
Collaboration with Mazak on robot component prototypes, with plans announced for three CNC machines
- WandelbotsSelling the software that moves robots rather than the robots themselves
Agreement with Schaeffler to jointly develop a NOVA-based physical AI platform linking robot applications across factories
- Algorizedwireless sensing that lets robots recognize people
Two-year joint research launched to predict human movement around collaborative robots
- RobotensorBuilding an intelligence layer that teaches robots by demonstration
Published robot imitation learning benchmark results and ongoing follow-up research
- MakinaRocksPutting AI into factories and warships, with headcount growing fast
Participation in government-funded forging-autonomy research and start of equipment-operation AI demonstrations aboard the naval ship Pohang · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- Tommoro RoboticsPutting a brain into other companies' robots to make them do factory work
HABILIS Brain 0 unveiled with 400 consecutive successful logistics picks by a real robot presented as a development demonstration
- SAIGEwidening from eyes that inspect to hands that move
Participation in a project developing perception, decision-making and control for collaborative robots using Korean AI chips
- Pantographa lab aiming to grow robot intelligence with many cheap robots
Published robot evaluation research and preparation to sell proprietary hardware
- Swarm Aeroa US defense startup flying large drones in swarms
Large unmanned aircraft Gamera unveiled with an account of design and prototype development
- FMC³ Roboticsa German company selling the 'brain' and field data, not the robot body
Developing a foundation for industrial applications through humanoid prototype demonstrations and joint research agreements
- APTOan AI data company that has set up a robot data factory
Toyosu data factory opened for real-robot data collection and development
- ATOMbuilding Japanese humanoids starting from a data factory
Announced a 1,700 m² development site opening and ongoing humanoid training data collection and physical robot validation
- Generalista company building a 'foundation model' for robot hands
Published GEN-1.5 research results on learning new tasks from short demonstrations
- Veeda AIa world model lab building the 'virtual reality' robots learn in
Secured early funding to develop a multimodal world model
- Athenyx Roboticsa new company bringing lab robot AI to the factory
Joint development of a robot intelligence software stack with BMW
- FingerVisionA company automating Japanese worksites by giving robot hands a sense of touch
Selection for a government project with robot makers and a university to build manufacturing-site vision, touch, language and action training datasets
- Flexion Roboticsbuilding the 'brain' software for humanoids
Long-duration autonomous missions demonstrated with Reflect v1.0, without commercial-customer deployment figures
- Laplacian RoboticsA Seongnam physical AI startup aiming at fully autonomous manufacturing and logistics
Incorporation completed and industrial robot software under development for manufacturing and logistics sites
- Genesis AIA company building the robot's brain, hands and body under one roof
First general-purpose robot Eno unveiled, with announced plans for production and initial industrial-customer deployments at the end of 2026
- Nirvana Roboticsa New York research startup building humanoids and learning systems together
Presenting a memory model for long-horizon robotic manipulation and validating performance through experiments
- Marso RoboticsA French company building autonomous logistics robots for existing warehouses
Preparing for demonstrations after selection for a logistics innovation program
- Menlo Researcha Singapore company putting an open-source humanoid in developers' hands
Unveiled the open-source Asimov DIY humanoid kit for researchers and developers to assemble, modify and experiment with
- WIRoboticsa company moving from wearable robots to humanoids
KRW 95 billion raised for ALLEX development, with research release and mass production setup timelines announced as plans
- LexxPlussA Japanese startup expanding from logistics robots to industrial humanoids
New Industrial Lab recreating real logistics environments for AMR and industrial-humanoid research and testing
- Sunday RoboticsBuilding home robots from household-chore data collected with gloves
USD 165 million Series B raised for home-robot development and preparations for fall beta deployment
- Miraian Italian startup putting physical AI on uncrewed vessels at sea
Initial funding and announced plans for autonomous vessel technology development and pilot projects
- Sphere Defensebuilding the first engineering team for autonomous aerial-threat countermeasures in Brussels
Funding secured and development of an autonomous response drone announced
Pilot · first production 52 companies
First customers, first production or pilot operations
Role mix of open postings at 27 companies in this stage (observed)
- Software & AI 42% (average 33%)
- Controls 18%
- Field 11%
- Mechanical 8%
- Runwayvideo generation AI widening into models that move robots
Public release of Praxis-1 after testing on partner robots
- DIDEN Roboticsa company taking its robot that walks on shipyard steel walls into mass production
Moving from shipyard demonstrations to small-volume deliveries and productization
- Nidusa New York team automating US manufacturing with robotics foundation models
Delivery of wire assembly models to defense factories and early field deployment
- CarbonSixa company turning skilled workers' hand skills into robot data
Demonstrating learned manufacturing tasks on real robots to validate field applications
- Origami Roboticsturning the skill of the human hand into robot training data
Official-blog announcement of production start for factory-tested S1 data-collection gloves
- XYZgrowing humanoids on field data gathered in robot cafés
Initial delivery of 10 in-house DEUX humanoids for a physical AI education course
- Eka Roboticssolving manipulation with robot hands that read force
Picking and wire manipulation pilots with industrial customers
- Noble Machinesa company building general-purpose robots that go into harsh industrial sites
Completed first industrial customer robot deployment and began development collaboration with a Japanese construction company
- Holiday Roboticsa company building industrial humanoids in-house in Seoul
Producing initial units at the first Seongsu-dong production line and validating field use
- Originaiming to turn interior finishing on construction sites over to robots
Actual construction-site use of OG-1 and funding announced, with additional overseas demonstrations presented as plans
- Config Intelligencea company building robot brains from data on how people work
Validating action data and robot models with customers and robot manufacturers
- Muso Actiona company handing the small manual tasks of factories and warehouses to robot foundation models
Second phase of kitting automation demonstration underway at a Daikin factory
- MAUM AImoving AI that talked into robots that walk
Delivery of a quadruped robot system as proof-of-concept equipment for trials in Thailand
- Physical Intelligencea research company aiming to supply the brain for many robots
Announced limited release of robot model training and inference APIs to a small number of companies and initial field deployments under way
- Breakera software company that moves robot groups with a single spoken command
Announced software integration into an industrial partner's vehicle platform and completion of operating demonstrations for customers
- Airiona University of Tokyo spin-off bringing factory-floor craft skills into physical AI
Announced the start of development platform provision to Yazaki, beginning with joint project development and technical validation
- sewtsA Munich company handling laundry and other deformable materials with robots
On-site deployment of a robot for automatically sorting soiled laundry at a laundry service facility
- Persona AIhumanoids learning the work at Korean shipyards and steelworks
On-site humanoid PoCs for shipyard welding and steel logistics with HD Hyundai and POSCO DX
- Wayveone AI driving model going into many automakers' cars
First series-production contract signed for Mercedes vehicles, with commercialization preparation underway
- RoboForcea robot labour company that takes on rough work at outdoor sites
Commercial transition of existing pilots, with industrial field validation collaboration announced
- Yokogawa Electriclayering robot inspection and autonomous control AI on top of measurement and control
Integrated control-system order for one carrier and two fuel vessels in a hydrogen-commercialization demonstration project
- Omakase Roboticsbuilding its own small humanoid for Japanese hospitals and care facilities
Validating D1 use at a care facility through guidance, transport and tea-serving trials
- 42dotThe software center building Hyundai Motor Group's own autonomous driving AI
Autonomous driving validation through real-vehicle data collection and road testing in Seoul
- Maven Roboticsa company that started general-purpose industrial robots with warehouse palletizing
Announced robot fleet deployment at a consumer goods customer site and autonomous operation across multiple shifts
- XPENGthe stage where an EV maker has built a humanoid factory
New IRON production line in operation, with announced plans for mass production at year-end
- Servo7handing container unloading over to robots
Testing container unloading robots at a BTS warehouse
- EverestLabsa company running AI robots and agents together on recycling conveyors
Navigator launched with recycling-facility operational use at early customer Caglia disclosed
- Loki Roboticsa Swiss company that entered Japanese sites first with a restroom-cleaning robot
Started cleaning robot demonstration in a Japanese office building
- Human Computer Laba robot that enters the home through expression and responsiveness rather than arms and legs
LeLamp pilot operations in actual homes
- RobrosA company that sells humanoids and puts them to work on site
Paid supply contract for nine humanoids for industrial demonstrations, expanding customer-validation applications
- Aurelius Systemsa company putting lasers and autonomous target recognition on unmanned vehicles
US laser manufacturing division and production line unveiled, with reservations open for initial production
- Black Forest Labsa lab extending from image generation models to robot hands
Testing and deployment at Audi of an action model jointly developed with mimic
- Walden Roboticsgeneral-purpose robots now working factory shifts
Officially announced robots performing real work at North American automotive production facilities since February
- Mboditeaching industrial robots through words and demonstrations
Validation and customer-driven refinement of industrial collaborative robots for picking and packing
- Pickle RobotScaling truck-unloading robots to site scale
First commercial integrated deployment with Ambi linking trailer unloading to palletizing
- Proceptionbuilding the humanoid's hand first
Shipping the first robotic hands to researchers and robotics companies to validate initial use
- Navflexa company handing the last manual job, truck loading and unloading, to robots
Customer site testing of the loading and unloading solution jointly developed with Jungheinrich
- sensmoreturning large machines at mining and aggregates sites into autonomous robots
First autonomous underground production process at a Cemex quarry integrated into daily production
- Raion Roboticsa company getting ready to build its lab robot dog in a factory
Production facility and testbed established in Daejeon, with mass production preparations under way
- Delian Alliance Industriesa Greek defense startup building the 'eyes' for drones that fly without GPS
Long-distance field testing of an optical navigation module in Ukraine
- Kinovaa 20-year-old company widening from assistive robot arms to medical robot arms
Launch of the KIMA medical robot arm and early integration and validation
- HIVELondon and Norway firm putting a ‘silicon brain’ into existing heavy machines, now building a field team in Austin
Industrial-site trials of autonomous heavy equipment for tunneling and quarrying with Veidekke and Telia
- Dexmateselling a wheeled dual-arm robot as a test bed for physical AI
Demonstration of collaborative Vega tasks on the LG CNS platform
- MVTecBuilding the eyes of factory inspection equipment in software
New commercial semiconductor-inspection use through HALCON integration into ZEISS's new automated microscopy platform
- PerceptyneAn Indian robotics company building semi-humanoids for industrial work
Pre-production validation through robot prototype trials with Indian manufacturers
- Scout AIa defense robot brain that commands unmanned systems in plain language
Field testing autonomous vehicle technology with defense customers
- RideFluxAn autonomous driving company moving beyond testing to paid freight hauling
Preparing commercial operations after heavy autonomous truck tests and authorization for paid freight transport
- Mantis Roboticsbetting on robots that move fast without fences
Early commercialization of the safety-certified MR-1 available for sale
- Moonlake AIa lab extending virtual worlds made by speaking into robot training grounds
Opened the public beta of a world-modeling agent
- OpenMindbuilding robot brains instead of robots
Early software distribution through the launch of a robot app store
- Brumbyan Australian robotics startup herding cattle with drones
Autonomous drone cattle mustering demonstrations at two pilot ranches in Australia
- Avridean autonomous driving company running robotaxis and delivery robots together
Early field operations with a Dallas passenger service accompanied by onboard safety operators
Scaling production 30 companies
Adding plants, capacity or large orders
Role mix of open postings at 26 companies in this stage (observed)
- Software & AI 21%
- Controls 21%
- Sales & BD 13%
- Field 11%
- Ottonomy.IOa company sending delivery robots to airports, hospitals and even mining villages
Disclosed 50 robots in operation and 500 additional orders secured, with announced plans for the deployment expansion schedule · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- Saronic Technologiesbuilding its own shipyard to make autonomous vessels
Scaling production with a Navy production contract and the launch of the second Marauder
- Ousterfrom a lidar company to one that sells a robot's entire eyes
At least 27,000 sensor shipments in Q3, capacity-investment benefits and initial REV8 production expansion announced
- ugoLetting robots take over inspection of factories and equipment
EMS setup with Canon Electronics, October production start and announced November supply plans for a next-generation patrol robot · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- Foundry Roboticsan Emeryville company building AI-driven contract assembly where robots build robots
Opening and expansion of an autonomous assembly factory and acquisition of robot software · Also seen: M&A · integration
- Renishawgrowing again on encoders that measure the precision of semiconductor equipment
Quarterly disclosure confirms additional capacity investment in response to rising optical and laser encoder orders for semiconductor equipment
- Schneider ElectricCombining power and automation to bring AI into factories and data centers
Opening of an Indian liquid-cooling production site and announcement of industrial edge AI agent collaboration · Also seen: Going global · localizing
- Gecko RoboticsReading the condition of warships and industrial equipment with wall-climbing robots
U.S. Navy maintenance-support contract ceiling raised to USD 300 million, with continued vessel-inspection use · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- Heliconstamping out composite frames for drones and robots on automated lines
Expansion of automated composite production lines
- StradVisionVehicle vision AI in 5 million cars, preparing its next generation after listing
Software contract secured for Aptiv's next-generation platform following existing series-production applications
- Matic Robotsa cleaning robot company that understands the home with cameras and on-device AI
Research team relocation and conversion of the entire Mountain View building to manufacturing as production increases
- AeiRobota humanoid company that builds everything from its own actuators up
KRW 40 billion investment agreement signed for research and manufacturing facilities in Ansan
- SFAa logistics automation company in the middle of becoming an autonomous manufacturing robot company
Expanding new orders across multiple industries, with a separate autonomous manufacturing research and demonstration center established · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Fluidstackbuilding data centers itself for AI labs
Started phase-one construction of a large AI data center in Texas
- TARbuilding off-grid power plants for AI data centers with robots
Funding secured while advancing a West Texas manufacturing and logistics center and field deployments
- NODA AIa company bringing unmanned systems from many makers under a single command
Announced contract to expand autonomous mission command software
- DEEPXA Korean fabless company making low-power AI chips that run inside robots and cameras
Commercial purchase orders for mass-produced NPUs up to 77 at July-end, with more follow-on orders from existing customers
- Koh Young Technologya company whose inspection equipment demand is being lifted by AI servers
Announced plans for a second production center in Yeoju for inspection equipment and new businesses
- fab2a company that wants to mass-produce semiconductor fabs, not chips
Confirmed relocation to Texas and ongoing expansion of facilities for producing equipment and small fabs
- Remote Robotic Systemsfrom importing drones to making them in Canada
Agreement with Orqa to expand drone manufacturing in Canada
- Medraa company running laboratories autonomously with robots
Established a 38,000-square-foot robotics laboratory for commercial experiments and announced active partner projects
- DexterityA logistics robot company taking on truck loading and unloading
Announced expansion of Mech production and logistics deployment using Kawasaki robot arms
- Harmattan AIa French company that reached mass production of defense autonomous systems in two years
Additional French order for 5,000 units and production capacity disclosed following earlier deliveries
- Andromeda Roboticsa company bringing companion robots into aged care facilities
Melbourne relocation from 500 m² to 2,500 m² expands robot production, testing and maintenance space · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- Teledyne FLIRgiving robots and drones 'eyes that see heat'
USD 11.2 million contract secured for at least 45 autonomous sensor-drone kits for the U.S. Army
- Lightwheelselling the virtual worlds and data robots learn from
Announcement of approximately US$100 million in quarterly physical AI infrastructure orders
- bitsensingtaking automotive 4D radar into commercial vehicle operations
Supply contract for at least 500 units secured after commercial-vehicle ADAS pilot validation
- Machina Labsa company growing factories where robots form metal
Funding and plans announced for a third factory to produce large metal structures
- Mytraa company standardizing the 'movement of goods' in warehouses through software
Deployment contract larger than the previous largest installation, with investment to expand customer support announced
- Blue Roboticsan underwater robot company moving its headquarters and production to the waterfront
Announced long-term lease and expansion plans to relocate headquarters and production facilities to the Port of Los Angeles
Operations · field rollout 68 companies
Running and widening installed systems and services in the field
Role mix of open postings at 42 companies in this stage (observed)
- Software & AI 36%
- Controls 17%
- Sales & BD 14%
- Field 10%
- Rorze SystemsA Yongin equipment maker of wafer transfer and automation systems
Continued supply and maintenance of semiconductor and display equipment for customers in Korea and abroad
- SE3 Labsa Munich defense AI company that makes machines understand 3D space
Thousands of system shipments and execution of multiple contracts in Germany and Ukraine disclosed
- Gritta company building solar power plants by adding AI to existing construction equipment
Follow-on site collaboration with MasTec announced, building on solar installation experience
- Tutor Intelligenceteaching warehouse robots like people and renting them out by subscription
Robot operations at multiple U.S. production sites and millions of picks disclosed, with new learning models announced · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- TechMagicA cooking robot company expanding from kitchens to factories
Cooking robots added at three Lawson stores and actual operations launched at a spaghetti specialty restaurant
- SpecterSan Francisco hardware team building long-range video sensing networks for power plants and data centers
Applying vision AI detection at industrial sites of multiple large-enterprise customers
- AvalaSan Francisco data infrastructure firm turning robot, vehicle and drone sensor data into training datasets
Verification records, signed receipts and delivery histories applied to customer dataset delivery operations
- Formicletting factories use robots without buying them
Robots operating across at least 100 US manufacturing facilities, with investment in broader applicability announced
- Circus Groupsending cooking robots to factory canteens and army barracks
At least 30 units deployed to 19 corporate customers in 8 countries, with cumulative preparation of at least 230,000 meals disclosed
- Gather AIcounting warehouse inventory with drones and camera eyes
Recurring drone-based inventory operations at logistics customer sites
- Rapyuta RoboticsAutomating warehouses by linking many robots through one cloud
ASRS operations launched at two NX Group logistics sites, adding automated-warehouse operating cases
- Seoul Roboticsa lidar AI company expanding from factory logistics to urban infrastructure
LiDAR monitoring solution deployed at at least 3,800 infrastructure sites in 15 countries
- Preferred Networksa Japanese AI company bringing chips, LLMs and robots together under one roof
Group company transport robots operating at multiple manufacturing sites, alongside selection for next-generation AI semiconductor research · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Meckaturning human motion into robot training data
Supplying data to multiple robotics laboratories and expanding ongoing operations · Also seen: M&A · integration
- Humaidturning hand movements on factory floors into robot training data
Collecting and processing real-world motion data for robotics company customers
- Yujin RobotMoving from robots that carry to robots that work
Continued AMR supply to manufacturing, logistics and hospitals, with announced plans for new humanoid task-automation research and demonstrations · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- eve autonomymaking 'transport' in the factory yard driverless
About 100 vehicles operating at roughly 60 Japanese sites, with multi-vehicle traffic-coordination functionality unveiled
- NomagicA company replacing the hands of fashion logistics with AI
First ten robots deployed at European logistics centers, with customer-site expansion and new-customer deployment contracts announced
- WaabiPutting an AI driver trained in simulation onto real freight
Warp freight operations launched in Texas, with autonomous-driving technology also applied to Warrior Logistics' recurring transport
- SENSYN ROBOTICSa company automating Japan's infrastructure inspection with drones and AI
Actual refinery drone-inspection operations and wind-inspection use at three J-POWER sites disclosed
- ExotecA company that has entered Korean distribution centers with warehouse robots
Broader deployment across regions through disclosure of at least one year of warehouse operations at a U.S. customer and a new Japanese center launch
- Locus Roboticsa company adding hands to the robots that ran through warehouses
Robot fleets operating across at least 360 sites in around 20 countries
- ISEEan MIT-born company automating the logistics yard first
Continued customer site vehicle operations and an expanded supply framework combining leasing, retrofitting and management
- ANYboticshanding dangerous plant inspections to robots
Inspection robot operations platform applied across at least 200 deployments and actual factory inspections
- Outridera company moving trucks in logistics yards without people
Operating driverless yard support services and contracting with YMX for customer-site deployment and operation
- Relay Roboticsa company adding delivery robots that travel hospital corridors
Delivery robots operating in at least 30 US hospitals, with two newly deployed at JFK Hospital
- NeubilityUsing driving data gathered on the streets to expand to robots with hands
Deployment and operation of about 400 autonomous mobile robots at at least 150 sites in Korea and abroad
- DYNA RoboticsA company aiming to hand a robot an entire work shift
DYNA 2.1 unveiled with hotel, laundry and restaurant deployments underway, expanding commercial-site use
- Ambi Roboticsselling robot skills built on distribution center data
Customer warehouse-validated software improvements applied to the US robot fleet
- Watneya company running robots that take the place of human hands inside data centers
Disclosed hundreds of thousands of operating hours at hyperscaler customer facilities and continuous robot operations across the US
- Skild AIthe company that has started selling one brain for any robot
Operating robot intelligence at paying customer sites in logistics, factories and other settings
- Ventiona platform company trying to cut factory automation down to days
Operating machines and an automation platform supplied to numerous factories
- EV Groupa company installing hybrid bonding equipment in customer fabs
Announced operation of validation centers supporting customer process development and mass production transition, alongside next-generation bonding research · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Corvus Roboticsa company that counts warehouse inventory with drones and forklift AI
Recurring operation of inventory equipment deployed across multiple logistics centers
- Bedrock Roboticstaking the operator out of the excavator cab
Excavation without an occupant in the operator's cab at three Nevada and Texas customer sites after supervised testing · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- Acuminobringing two-handed robots taught by shop-floor workers into factories
Applying technology at a Greek factory and operating a subscription robot service
- OSAROa company running AI picking on the floor of logistics centers
Maintaining continuous operation, remote support and customer data security for distributed logistics robots
- IO-AI TECHpaving the way to collect the data robots learn from
Expanding applications while providing robot data products to at least 150 customers worldwide
- Path Roboticsthe welding-AI company that has started taking on work at US shipyards
Expanded early-customer evaluation of mobile Rove and shipbuilding-process development, building on commercial stationary welding cells · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- GrayMatter RoboticsTaking sanding and painting robots into shipyards and defense
Continued robot use in at least 20 industries and an HII agreement on shipbuilding-process development, validation and conditional delivery · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Avatar Roboticsa young company that has entered logistics sites with teleoperated humanoids
Product handling in customer warehouses and deployment expansion beyond pilots
- AIM Intelligent Machinesturning existing heavy equipment into autonomous machines
Commercial autonomous equipment operations at U.S. customer construction sites
- FoundationA company putting its Phantom humanoid into factories and defense settings
Phantom MK-1 use in automotive production disclosed, with next-generation humanoid co-development announced with AMD · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Strykerthe company that has transformed the orthopedic operating room with a single joint-surgery robot platform
Disclosed at least 2.5 million cumulative robotic surgeries in 47 countries and officially launched a handheld product
- Telexistencegrowing humanoids on data from convenience-store shelf stocking
Participation in robot-model development using NVIDIA Cosmos, building on commercial retail, logistics and manufacturing operations · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Anvil Roboticsa company selling ready-to-use robots to physical AI development teams
Reports of at least 100 robots shipped and 150 customers confirm a real customer operating base
- Chef Roboticsa company that rents robot arms to meal-tray lines in food factories
Robot services for 15 food manufacturers in North America and Europe
- Collaborative Robotics (Cobot)a non-humanoid robot company that pulls carts in place of people
Second-generation Proxie orders open, building on existing customer site operations
- Overview.aimaking inspection cameras that run without a vision expert
Disclosed AI inspection system deployments in hundreds of factories across at least 20 countries and expanded the camera portfolio
- XDOFa company where people create the data robots learn from
Supplying robot training data services to approximately 20 customers
- UnitXcutting factory visual inspection down to a single AI camera
Disclosed inspections of USD 15 billion in products annually across at least 190 manufacturing facilities worldwide
- Human Archiverecording human hand movements and selling them as robot training data
Robot training data collection operations through partners in India
- CartkenA company that has set its course on robots hauling between factory buildings
Four robots transporting between buildings and at least 15 pickup and handoff points at a Danish pharmaceutical production campus
- Peer Roboticsautonomous pallet robots taught by frontline workers
Transport robot applications expanded across trolleys, conveyors and pallets at BioWorld's logistics site
- Elite Robotsfrom collaborative robot arms to mobile dual-arm robots and unstaffed stores
Disclosed deployment of at least 20,000 collaborative robots in at least 50 countries and launched an automated coffee solution
- Connected Roboticsa company shifting manual work in food factories to robots
Broader product presentation in filling and meal-serving support, building on side-dish portioning robots at multiple food factories
- FoxgloveA company that builds tools for reading the data robots leave behind
Expanded unified search and customer-storage integration for a robot data platform serving hundreds of customers across industries
- LionsBota Singapore company sending cleaning robots to 30 countries
Disclosed deployment of at least 5,000 cleaning robots in 30 countries and strengthened sensor collaboration for next-generation products
- ZooxAn Amazon subsidiary running robotaxis in a purpose-built vehicle with no steering wheel
Service area expanded based on operating experience in Las Vegas and San Francisco
- Carbon Roboticsgrowing from a laser weeder into an autonomous farming platform
Supplying and supporting equipment for farm customers across multiple countries
- Weave Roboticsexpanding from laundry folding to household chore robots
Operating laundry robots for commercial customers and in homes while preparing next-model shipments
- Trener Roboticsteaching industrial robots by talking instead of coding
Expanding industrial applications and partnerships around Acteris using production-site feedback
- CoLaba company moving assembly processes still done by hand onto AI robots
Robot system operations and expanded deployment at multiple manufacturers' factories
- Cosmic Roboticsa robotics company starting at solar sites and aiming at construction on Mars
Operator certification after deployments at multiple actual solar projects
- Automataa company building the operating system that links AI models and lab robots
Five leading pharmaceutical customers and repeat deployments disclosed, with funding raised for further site expansion
- Dematica logistics automation company adding AutoStore on top of 20 years of field experience in Korea
Installation of an 18-robot AutoStore system for Kuwait's MNSS and support for actual parts-logistics operations
- Valinor Enterprisesa holding-style startup that builds up multiple defense hardware companies
Operating five product companies with government contracts and actual mission deployments
- Civ Roboticsa company replacing surveying at solar power plant sites with robots
Serving existing construction surveying customers while testing a new equipment guidance product
Going global · localizing 23 companies
Moving out through overseas units, local production or customers
Role mix of open postings at 17 companies in this stage (observed)
- Software & AI 36%
- Controls 19%
- Field 17% (average 12%)
- Planning & admin 8%
- Serve RoboticsA company extending sidewalk delivery robots to hospitals and new cities
Service launched in October in its first overseas city in Australia, with broader existing delivery and hospital-customer operations · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- WeRideAn autonomous driving company running robotaxis, robobuses and robovans in several countries
Global insurance cooperation framework established to support local operations in Singapore and the Middle East
- Genonwalking out of generative AI and into factory robots
Indonesian entity established, with local manufacturing AI validation and follow-on project orders secured
- Niqo Roboticsan Indian physical AI company giving farm machinery eyes
Expanding the product range for U.S. farms to serve overseas markets
- WIMthe controller company turning AI judgment into robot motion
U.S. subsidiary established for local contracting and sales, with control-software demonstrations at manufacturers · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- Dominion Dynamicsa Canadian defense tech company growing with autonomous systems that guard the Arctic
Agreement with a Ukrainian company to pursue Canadian production and technology transfer
- Promise Roboticsturning out house framing in robotic factories
Multi-year agreement with a U.S. homebuilder and announced plans for a Phoenix factory
- Multiply LabsA company turning cell therapy plants into robotic clusters
First overseas manufacturing subsidiary launched in Italy, with funding to expand clinical-stage robot deployments to commercial scale · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- RobCoa modular industrial robot company shifting its center of gravity from Germany to the US
Manufacturing and assembly in Austin and research in San Francisco, serving customers in more than 12 US states
- General Roboticsa company using AI to automate the engineering of putting robots into the field
Development partner at Singapore's public safety humanoid center
- InboltA company that gives existing factory robots eyes
Detroit office opened and U.S.–Asia expansion funding secured, with use in at least 100 factories disclosed · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- Applied Intuitionexpanding from autonomous driving development tools to an operating system for physical AI
Road data collection vehicles begin operating in Korea with a Korean partner
- Eureka RoboticsA Singapore maker of AI vision systems for factory automation
AI vision integration and supply partnership with a North American automation partner
- Havocautonomy software that moves hundreds of uncrewed vessels together
Joint-production collaboration announced with a Taiwanese shipbuilder for local production and maintenance
- NearthlabTaking autonomous flight learned in wind turbine inspection to defense drones
Agreement with a Vietnamese organization to pursue local development, production, operation and maintenance cooperation
- Gravis Roboticsa company widening its reach by adding autonomy to existing excavators
Expanding field deployments across four continents and collaboration with a UK equipment rental partner
- Tazmoan equipment maker that also builds the robots that move wafers
Disclosed capital increase for the Taiwan sales and service subsidiary to secure a customer demonstration and experimentation cleanroom
- Monumentaltaking on construction subcontracts with bricklaying robots
Preparing for U.S. entry based on construction work completed in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
- Roboticanmaking robots that go first into places people find hard to enter
Operating production bases in Israel and the United States and an overseas customer support network
- Luma AIexpanding from video generation models to physical world models
Opened a London sales base and expanded partner business in the Middle East · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- SAMICK THKfrom linear motion parts to wafer transfer robots
Agreement with a Vietnamese partner on joint smart manufacturing development and Southeast Asian expansion
- Reflex RoboticsA wheeled humanoid for heavy work in warehouses and factories
Announced plans for a production and operations base in Mexico and adoption of a manufacturing management system
- Aerotecha company supporting laser and semiconductor processes with nanometer-scale motion control
Expanded local assembly in Fürth, Germany, and a new laser process validation site for European customers · Also seen: Scaling production
M&A · integration 9 companies
Combining businesses after an acquisition or merger
Fewer than 10 companies in this stage have open postings, so no role mix is shown.
- Agile RobotsFrom robot arms to humanoids, taking on factory automation end to end
Integrated operation after acquiring automation-engineering assets, with a humanoid PoC announced at Audi's production lab · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- FORT Roboticsa company responsible for the safety and trust of autonomous machines
Mapless AI acquisition integrates remote supervision and active safety technology, serving at least 600 customers · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- Wandercrafta company widening from rehabilitation exoskeletons to factory humanoids
Integrating medical exoskeleton products and customer bases after completing the Ekso Bionics acquisition
- Recycleyeputting AI eyes and robot arms into recycling sorting facilities
Technology and product integration following CP Group's majority stake acquisition, alongside ongoing operations for European sorting facility customers · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- NEURA Roboticsbuilding the robot's body, its brain and even the training ground
Announced acquisition of all ADLATUS shares and plans to integrate technology into the existing cleaning robot fleet
- Diligent RoboticsHospital-corridor delivery robots move to a second generation after acquisition
Initial Moxi 2.0 deployment at three U.S. hospitals following integration as a Serve subsidiary · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- NovantaGrowing its robot components while shifting its center of gravity to medical
Completed acquisition of a volumetric drug-delivery business to expand medical devices
- PI (Physik Instrumente)a precision positioning company that creates motion at the nanometer scale
Completed acquisition by Hoerbiger, integration into its new positioning division, and changes in CEO, finance and operations leadership · Also seen: Restructuring
- Mentee Roboticsa humanoid preparing for volume production inside an autonomous driving company
Mobileye acquisition completed, with Mentee Robotics results included in consolidated financial statements
Restructuring 15 companies
Divestments, structural changes or a change of chief executive
Role mix of open postings at 11 companies in this stage (observed)
- Software & AI 26%
- Sales & BD 21% (average 12%)
- Controls 18%
- Field 16% (average 12%)
- Doosan RoboticsRebuilding itself from a collaborative robot maker into an AI robot solutions company
New chief executive, technology and strategy leadership, with a business shift toward AI robot solutions and industrial humanoids · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Angel RoboticsFrom wearable robots to selling robot joints
Founder reappointed as CEO to unite technology and management and pursue physical AI business expansion
- Renesasan automotive MCU company shifting its weight toward AI data center power semiconductors
Completed timing business transfer and announced details of software holding company establishment
- Tokyo ElectronA company whose key people set up and run equipment beside customer fabs
Announced field-solutions reorganization establishing Field Solutions Divisions 1 and 2 effective October 1
- maxon groupa precision drive company that has reached all the way into humanoid joints
Management-generation transition through announced plans for the COO to assume CEO operating responsibility in March 2027
- NSKA bearing company has started making robot joints itself
Dedicated robotics organization linking component capabilities to actuator and robot-solution development and commercialization · Also seen: R&D · prototype
- Robust AIGrowing collaborative warehouse robots by the unit count
Realignment of chief executive and technology-innovation leadership, with at least 100 Carter deployments disclosed · Also seen: Operations · field rollout
- KEBAAn Austrian automation company putting AI into the controllers inside machines
Establishment of a dedicated KEBA DIGITAL organization for hardware-independent AI services
- Sanctuary AIBringing humanoid hand technology to industrial robots first
Shift to applying AI to existing industrial robots and disclosure of an automotive-parts customer's proof-of-concept results · Also seen: Pilot · first production
- Propheseefrom a sensor company to a complete vision system company
Announced an integrated vision systems strategy under new management through EUR 20 million in funding and the launch of Mantara and Hearth
- FRAMOSmoving from component supply to vision systems for robots and drones
Shift to co-CEOs and integrated vision products, with US-based EMAC acquisition adding systems capabilities · Also seen: M&A · integration
- JEOLan inspection equipment company that finds semiconductor defects with electron microscopes
Completed medical equipment business transfer to Sysmex and separately started semiconductor failure analysis equipment sales
- Aptivshifting its weight to autonomous driving compute and vision software
Completed restructuring through the spin-off and independent listing of the electrical wiring business as Versigent
- Niantic Spatialtelling robots 'where they are'
Management reorganization and transition to a spatial AI business
- IntrinsicA platform inside Google that lets AI software run industrial robots
Collaboration restructured through a move from a separate Alphabet business into Google
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