Companies building robots
25 organisationsBuilds the Forerunner series of low-cost industrial humanoids, positioning the K2 at roughly $20k–$30k for materials handling and inspection.
17,000 AMRs deployed across 350+ sites, past 7 billion picks — the largest independent warehouse AMR fleet.
Bootstrapped Indian humanoid robotics company founded by self-taught engineer Dr. Mukesh Bangar, building the SPACEO line of enterprise humanoids in-house.
Israeli humanoid startup co-founded by Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua; Mobileye agreed to acquire it for $900M in January 2026.
Alibaba-backed embodied-AI startup founded by robotics/HRI researcher Wang Qian, crossing a $2.8B valuation in June 2026 after four consecutive funding rounds.
Amazon's in-house robotics arm; Proteus is its first fully autonomous mobile robot, moving GoCarts around live fulfilment floors.
ETH Zurich spin-off building the ANYmal inspection quadruped; ANYmal X is the only Ex-certified legged robot, deployed with Shell, PETRONAS, BASF and Vale.
Beijing consumer-robotics firm; the S8 MaxV Ultra leads the premium robot-vacuum segment on suction and runtime.
Maker of the compact Booster T1 research/education humanoid platform, widely used by university teams for RL locomotion and RoboCup soccer research.
Rehabilitation-robotics company that expanded into general-purpose humanoids with the GR series, built on its high-torque FSA actuators.
Maker of Digit, the first humanoid commercially deployed under a Robots-as-a-Service model; built at RoboFab, the first dedicated humanoid factory.
Shenzhen-based commercial service-robotics company founded in 2016 by Felix Zhang (Zhang Tao), known for delivery, cleaning and hospitality robots deployed globally. In 2026 it expanded into humanoids with the semi-humanoid D7 and full-size bipedal D9, raising nearly $150M at a $1.5B valuation.
French medical exoskeleton pioneer that pivoted into industrial humanoids in 2025 with a strategic investment and commercial partnership from Renault Group.
Shanghai-based embodied-AI company, founded in 2023 by ex-Huawei engineers Deng Taihua and Peng Zhihui (a.k.a. 'Zhihui Jun'), that became one of the world's highest-volume humanoid-robot producers by 2025 with a broad portfolio spanning bipedal, wheeled and quadruped platforms.
Builds Phoenix, distinguished by miniaturized hydraulic actuation and among the most dexterous robotic hands in any commercial program, driven by its Carbon AI.
CASIA-linked humanoid spin-off founded by CAS Institute of Automation researcher Zhang Zhengtao, backed by Lenovo Capital and Lens Technology.
Beijing-based humanoid and bionic robot developer founded in 2023 by Jiang Zheyuan. Rose to national prominence after its N2 robot finished second in the world's first humanoid half-marathon (April 2025), then drew attention with low-cost consumer humanoids (N2, Bumi) and bionic service robots (Hobbs line). Raised a ~CNY 1 billion (~$145M) Series B led by Chendao Capital in early 2026.
Shenzhen-based robotics startup (brand 'Astribot') founded in 2022 by Lai Jie, former first employee of Tencent RoboticsX and ex-lead of Baidu's Xiaodu robot team. It develops cable-driven manipulation robots paired with proprietary AI models. A mid-2026 Series B round reportedly pushed its valuation past 10 billion RMB (~$1.4B), reaching unicorn status.
Created robot-assisted surgery with da Vinci; placed 1,721 systems in 2025 alone, including 870 da Vinci 5 units.
Automaker that defined modern humanoid robotics with ASIMO (2000–2018), the dynamic-walking benchmark the current generation now builds upon.
London-based Humanoid (legal entity SKL Robotics Ltd.) was founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov. Funded initially with ~$50M of founder-led capital, the company is building general-purpose humanoids and was reported in early 2026 to be raising a ~$200M Series A. Its HMND 01 Alpha mobile manipulator was trialed for logistics tasks in a Siemens factory with NVIDIA-powered compute.
Shenzhen-based embodied-AI robotics startup founded in 2022, building full-size general-purpose humanoid robots (Oli, Luna) and the modular TRON biped research platforms, paired with its COSA (Cognitive OS of Agents) software stack. Raised a $200M Series B in early 2026 with backers including SAIC Motor, NIO Capital, and JD.com.
KAIST research lab led by Prof. Hae-Won Park building high-speed bipedal locomotion research humanoids, independent of the earlier KAIST Hubo Lab lineage.
KAIST Hubo Lab spin-off, majority-backed by Samsung Electronics (35% stake); publicly listed on KOSDAQ, maker of the HUBO lineage and the newer RB-Y1.
Founded as CloudMinds by telecom veteran Huang Xiaoqing, pioneering a 'cloud robot' architecture backed historically by SoftBank and Foxconn; has faced reported financial distress in 2024-2025.
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Robot companies in 2026: who builds them
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