Robotics companies

Formic, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois, offers robots for palletizing, case packing, machine tending and pallet wrapping.

RobCo, a Munich company spun out of the Technical University of Munich, builds modular industrial robots and software and rents them to manufacturers as a service with no upfront investment, with U.S. operations in Austin, Texas.

Tutor Intelligence, based in Watertown, Massachusetts, rents AI-driven robots to U.S. factories and warehouses by the hour or by the pick, with remote human operators guiding them and its own models learning from their work.

Ultra, based in Brooklyn, New York, leases robots to warehouses under a monthly robots-as-a-service model.

Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco company founded in 2024, builds the π family of robot foundation models and launched its Pi API beta in October 2026.

Skild AI, based in Pittsburgh, builds the Skild Brain, a general-purpose robot foundation model meant to control any kind of robot, from quadrupeds and humanoids to arms and mobile manipulators.

Hirebotics, a Nashville company that began by renting out robots, now sells complete collaborative-robot systems for welding, cutting and painting in metal fabrication, set up from a phone with its own no-code software.

Standard Bots, based in Glen Cove, New York, designs and builds AI-native industrial robot arms that are programmed without code.

Universal Robots, founded in 2005 in Odense, Denmark, and owned by Teradyne since 2015, makes collaborative robot arms sold principally through distributors and OEMs.

Weave Robotics, a San Francisco company founded in 2024, makes personal robots for the home.

Robots for America, launched in May 2026 in Washington, D.C., is a national coalition of robotics and AI companies, manufacturers and industry institutions with a shared policy agenda for deploying automation in U.S. factories and warehouses.

Robocurve, a San Francisco company founded in 2026, builds open-source tools and independent benchmarks that measure how well robots do real-world jobs.

Waddle Labs, a San Francisco company founded in 2025, offers early access to an API through which language-model agents write control programs for robots.

Agility Robotics, of Salem, Oregon, makes Digit, a two-legged humanoid robot for manufacturing, distribution and logistics work; it listed on Nasdaq as AGLT in Nov 2026 after reporting $1.8M of net sales for 2025.

Apptronik, of Austin, Texas, makes the Apollo humanoid robot; founded in 2016 at the University of Texas at Austin, it says its Series A passed $935M in Feb 2026, and it builds Apollo with Jabil and pilots it with Mercedes-Benz and GXO.

Figure, of San Jose, California, makes the Figure 03 humanoid robot and Helix, the AI that runs it; founded in 2022 and private, it raised more than $1B at a $39B post-money valuation in Sep 2025, and BMW uses its robots at Plant Spartanburg.