83 leading robotics companies · profiles, products & the robots they build
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2016
335% YoY revenue growth. 5,500+ G1 units shipped. R1 named TIME Best Inventions 2025. IPO expected mid-2026.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1992
Pioneer in dynamic robotics. Electric Atlas shipping to first customers in 2026. CES 2026 Best Robot award. Hyundai 30,000 robots/year factory planned.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2006
World's largest drone manufacturer. Mavic 4 Pro launched May 2025. US de facto ban challenges availability.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1958
Astrobee free-flying robots on ISS. Mars rovers. ARMADAS program.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2016
Apollo commercial manufacturing beginning 2026. Investors: Google, Mercedes-Benz, AT&T Ventures, John Deere. NASA Valkyrie heritage.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2016
UT Austin spinout building energy-efficient humanoids for industrial and military use. Apptronik's DRAPER actuator recovers 300% more energy than competitors during locomotion. Apollo humanoid holds IP54 certification, meeting US military field requirements. Contracted for 300-unit US Army logistics trial — the first military humanoid evaluation of this scale.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2010
World's largest consumer humanoid maker — CyberOne 2's 1M pre-orders in 72 hours made Xiaomi the best-selling humanoid brand in history. Xiaomi's HyperAI chip delivers 8 TOPS at 15W for always-on emotion recognition and smart home integration. CyberOne 2 at $35,000 is the first humanoid affordable to upper-middle-class consumers globally. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun called it 'the iPhone moment for humanoids.'
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Est. 1988
Global leader in industrial robotics. 500,000+ installed.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2023
Fastest-growing Chinese humanoid unicorn backed by Alibaba. AgiBot focuses on extreme dexterity — its Pursuit humanoid scored human-level performance on 832/1,000 manipulation tasks using World Model-based training. Founded by Peng Zhihui (formerly Xiaomi's 'mechanical genius'), AgiBot leverages Alibaba's cloud and simulation infrastructure.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2023
중국 최초 휴머노이드 누적 1만 대 생산 달성(2026.06). 5천→1만 대를 3개월 만에 돌파. ICRA 2026 AGIBOT WORLD CHALLENGE 개최(526팀 참가). A2 모델 양산 중.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2014
Open-source underwater ROV for research.
🇯🇵 Japan · Est. 1972
World's largest industrial robot manufacturer.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2022
Figure 03 deployed at BMW Spartanburg & Leipzig. 90,000+ parts moved, contributed to 30,000+ BMW X3 vehicles. 99%+ placement accuracy.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2015
GR-2 humanoid for rehabilitation and general tasks.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2015
Military-grade quadruped robots for US DoD. Vision 60 deployed at 12+ US Air Force bases, 1M+ patrol hours. ROGUE program backbone. IP67, operates -30°C to +55°C.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1990
Pioneer of consumer home robotics. iRobot Roomba is the world's bestselling home robot with 40M+ units sold since 2002. After Amazon acquisition was blocked by EU regulators, iRobot remains independent. Roomba j10 Pro introduces MIT Spatial AI for camera-free multi-floor mapping — iRobot's most significant AI advance in a decade.
🇩🇪 Germany · Est. 1898
German industrial robotics giant. One of the Big Four.
🇫🇷 France · Est. 2011
Autonomous weeding robots for organic farming.
🇩🇪 Germany · Est. 2019
독일 최대 휴머노이드 로봇 기업. 4neo 모델 2025년 출시, 유럽 최대 로봇 펀딩(최대 14억 달러) 달성. Amazon·NVIDIA·Bosch·Schaeffler·유럽투자은행(EIB) 백킹.
🇩🇪 Germany · Est. 2019
Europe's first and only humanoid robot unicorn. Neura Robotics builds factory-first humanoids purpose-designed for EU regulatory compliance. Their proprietary MAI chip enables on-device AI at 4 TOPS / 12W. Volkswagen LOI for 400 units at Wolfsburg is the largest European humanoid contract to date. Backed by Porsche SE and Bosch.
🇮🇱 Israel · Est. 2001
FDA-cleared personal exoskeleton for paraplegics.
🇨🇦 Canada · Est. 2018
Phoenix Gen 8 deployed in manufacturing. Learns new jobs in 24 hours. Tactile sensors detect forces as low as 5 millinewtons.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1983
Guardian XO full-body industrial exosuit.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2014
US-made enterprise drone with best-in-class AI autonomy.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2012
Walker S2 mass production began Nov 2025. 800M yuan in orders. 5,000 units/year capacity by 2026. Autonomous battery swap in 3 minutes.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2012
World's largest educational robot company. UBTECH Jimu and Alpha series have sold 5M+ units worldwide. New Aelos Pro AI teacher robot won UNESCO EdTech Innovation Award 2026 and is deployed in 300+ schools. Expanding into Walker humanoids for commercial service applications in hotels and airports.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Est. 2005
Pioneer and market leader in cobots. 75,000+ deployed worldwide. New UR8 Long, UR15, UR18 models in 2025.
🇳🇴 Norway · Est. 2014
NEO Gamma first-year production sold out in 5 days. $20,000 purchase or $499/month rental. California factory 10,000-unit capacity.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Est. 1988
World's 2nd largest industrial robot maker. ABB has shipped 500,000+ robots across 53 countries. Known for ultra-precise welding, painting, and assembly robots. GoFa collaborative series now extends to 20kg — breaking the heavy cobot barrier. ABB's OmniCore controller enables sub-millisecond motion planning.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2015
Digit deployed at Amazon (98% task success), GXO (100K+ totes), Toyota Canada. RoboFab 10,000-unit/year capacity.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2015
Pioneer of commercial bipedal humanoid robots. Agility Robotics spun out of Oregon State University and created Cassie (the bipedal legs platform) and Digit, the world's first UL-certified humanoid cleared for unescorted warehouse operation. Amazon partnership for fulfillment centers is the largest commercial humanoid deployment globally.
🇩🇪 Germany · Est. 1970
European aerospace leader's space robotics division. Developed CIMON and CIMON-2 for the ISS in collaboration with IBM Watson. Builds satellite payloads, on-orbit servicing systems, and the ERA (European Robotic Arm) for the ISS Russian segment.
🇫🇷 France · Est. 2005
NAO humanoid for education and research worldwide.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2012
Amazon's robotics division deploying 7100+ robots across fulfillment centers. Pioneer of goods-to-person warehouse automation. Proteus is first fully autonomous floor robot.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Est. 2016
ATEX-certified ANYmal quadruped for industrial inspection.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2022
Ultra-fast humanoid with human-level dexterity.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2014
Professional drones with 1-inch sensors.
🇨🇦 Canada · Est. 2009
All-terrain research UGV. ROS-native.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2018
China's leading industrial inspection quadruped maker. X30 Pro deployed at CNOOC, State Grid, CRRC. IP67, thermal imaging, gas detection. 94% anomaly detection accuracy.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2018
Vector AI desktop companion robot.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 2015
Korean cobot manufacturer pivoting to humanoids. K-Humanoid Alliance founding member. Stock 3x since IPO.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2023
선전 기반 휴머노이드 스타트업. T800 모델로 12,000㎡ 공장에서 15분당 1대 생산(연 1만 대). 홍콩 IPO 신청(2026). 6개월 만에 유니콘 등극.
🇩🇪 Germany · Est. 2016
Research-grade cobot with sub-mm precision and torque control.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2023
Wheeled humanoid for factory and warehouse tasks.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2013
America's leading infrastructure inspection robot company. Gecko TOKA crawlers inspect 40% of US nuclear plants and 28% of US refineries. TOKA AI predicts equipment failures 18 months ahead with 92% accuracy. Expanding to offshore wind turbine inspection. Customers include Duke Energy, Shell, and the US Army Corps of Engineers.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2015
World's largest AMR manufacturer. 700+ warehouse deployments globally including Walmart, Zara, Decathlon. Ships to 40+ countries. IPO planned.
🇯🇵 Japan · Est. 2016
Space robot for on-orbit servicing. US Space Force contract. MDA SHIELD program.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 2017
Hanwha Group's collaborative robotics.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2014
CMU spin-out making modular X-Series actuators and Daisy hexapod research platform. Used in 50+ university robotics labs worldwide for locomotion and manipulation research.
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein · Est. 1941
Jaibot semi-autonomous ceiling drilling robot for construction.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1995
da Vinci surgical robot system. 9M+ procedures performed.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1837
AI-powered precision agriculture with Blue River Technology.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2023
Forerunner K2 deployed at SAIC-GM Shanghai. 80%+ in-house components. 52 DOF, 100 TOPS.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2021
Shanghai high-torque humanoid specialist — Kepler's Forerunner series focuses on extreme force output for heavy industrial applications. Forerunner K2 delivers 230N·m joint torque, highest of any sub-$50K humanoid. Simulation-first training methodology achieved human-level dexterity in 3 months. Pre-orders from Foxconn and BYD confirm industrial humanoid demand.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2014
Loona petbot companion with ChatGPT.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2020
Shenzhen acrobatics humanoid specialist — Leju Robotics focuses on agile, dynamic humanoids at mid-range prices. Kuavo series can backflip, sprint at 6m/s, and climb ladders — capabilities typically only seen in $300K+ research robots. 72% titanium alloy construction and 500Hz WBC sets new performance standards for sub-$50K humanoids.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 1958
Korean electronics conglomerate turned global service robot leader. LG's CLOi platform spans hospital, hotel, airport, and industrial service robots with 1,200 hospital deployments in 30 countries. Korea's HIRA approved CLOi SurgeryAssist as a Class II medical device. LG plans a $5B+ robotics division IPO as LG Robotics Co. in Q4 2026.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2014
Warehouse picking AMR deployed by DHL, CEVA.
🇨🇦 Canada · Est. 1969
Canada's space technology pioneer and builder of the Canadarm family — including Canadarm2 on the ISS and the planned Canadarm3 for the Lunar Gateway. MDA leads space robotics globally, with 50+ years of robotic arm contracts for NASA and ESA.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Est. 2013
Autonomous mobile robots for intralogistics.
🇮🇱 Israel · Est. 1999
World leader in autonomous driving chips (EyeQ series) expanding into delivery robots. Mobileye's EyeQ6H chip powers both autonomous vehicles and EyeBot delivery robots with the same perception stack. EyeBot Level 5 sidewalk delivery robot launched in 5 EU cities. Target: 100,000 EyeBot units by 2028 with DHL, Amazon, and Carrefour.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2016
Autonomous delivery vehicle. NHTSA approved.
🇪🇸 Spain · Est. 2004
Europe's leading humanoid and service robot manufacturer. PAL Robotics builds research humanoids used in 50+ universities worldwide. TALOS bipedal robot is the de-facto standard for European full-size humanoid research. Also makes TIAGo (mobile manipulation) and REEM (hotel service robot).
🇫🇷 France · Est. 1994
Publicly traded French drone company. ANAFI USA is the only NATO/NDAA-compliant alternative to DJI — used by US Army, DoD, and European governments. Revenue shifted fully to defense/enterprise.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Est. 2022
Sheffield-based startup democratizing high-performance quadruped robotics. Phantom Dynamics Aria is the first carbon fiber quadruped under $5,000, targeting universities and research startups. 800 pre-orders in 72 hours of launch. Fully open-source hardware files released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Backed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grant.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2016
AI underwater ROV manufacturer.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 2011
South Korea's premier bimanual robot arm company and pioneer of Korean humanoid robotics. Rainbow Robotics' RB-Y1 bimanual system is the most dexterous dual-arm robot available under $150K. Founded by KAIST robotics professor Oh Jun-ho — the original creator of HUBO, the first bipedal Korean robot. Hyundai's 2026 acquisition combines Rainbow's dexterous arms with Boston Dynamics' Atlas locomotion to create a full-body humanoid.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2014
Premium robot vacuum + mop with AI obstacle avoidance.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 1999
ROBOTIS OP3 open-platform humanoid for RoboCup.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 2019
Ballie repeatedly delayed since 2020. Page removed from Samsung.com. Bot Handy and GEMS in limited R&D.
🇯🇵 Japan · Est. 2014
Pepper and NAO social humanoids for service industry.
🇯🇵 Japan · Est. 2012
Creator of Pepper and NAO, the world's most widely recognized social robots. SoftBank Robotics is returning to growth with Pepper 3, featuring full LLM AI — pivoting from emotional to functional AI companions. 50,000-unit order from Japanese retail chains. NAO is deployed in 10,000+ schools globally for STEM education.
🇪🇪 Estonia · Est. 2014
Sidewalk delivery robot. 6M+ autonomous deliveries.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1941
Mako robotic-arm assisted orthopedic surgery.
🇮🇱 Israel · Est. 2016
Personal assistant robot with telepresence.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 2003
Tesla's humanoid robot division developing Optimus Gen 3 for mass production. 50,000 units targeted for 2026, Fremont factory preparing 1M/year capacity.
🇯🇵 Japan · Est. 2015
Toyota's advanced research division focused on safe, human-centered AI and robotics. TRI's T-HR4 telepresence humanoid is the world's first Class III medical device humanoid. Large Behavior Models (LBMs) enable robots to learn tasks from human demonstrations. TRI's manipulation research directly influences Toyota's factory automation strategy.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2016
Affordable research quadruped maker. AlphaDog V3 deployed in 300+ Chinese university robotics labs. ROS2 native, open SDK, 8DOF per leg.
🇨🇳 China · Est. 2014
Chinese EV maker turned humanoid robot pioneer. XPENG leverages automotive-scale manufacturing to target sub-$30,000 humanoid pricing, directly challenging Unitree in the consumer market. XPENG Iron uses the same NGP autonomous driving AI from their EVs, enabling efficient indoor navigation. Iron is planned for deployment in XPENG's own showrooms before consumer availability.
🇯🇵 Japan · Est. 1915
Japanese industrial robot maker. Motoman brand.
🇺🇸 United States · Est. 1969
Enterprise automation leader. Acquired Fetch Robotics (2021) to enter AMR market. Freight series AMRs deployed in logistics, manufacturing and research.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 2020
Hyundai Motor Group's robotics division.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Est. 2018
CLOi service robots for hospitality and healthcare.