Companies building robots
25 organisationsReliance Retail-backed Indian warehouse-automation leader that expanded into humanoids with Elixis-W, India's first domestically manufactured wheeled humanoid.
Home-oriented humanoid and companion robot maker founded by former Dreame China president Guo Renjie, expanding into North America and Europe.
Shenzhen startup offering agile, low-cost humanoids (PM01, SE01) for commercial and developer use, with end-to-end neural locomotion.
Embodied-AI startup founded by ex-industrial-robotics CEO Han Fengtao and Chief Scientist Gao Yang (UC Berkeley); raised over $620M across 8 rounds since 2024.
Fortune Global 500 appliance/industrial conglomerate that acquired KUKA in 2017 and built an in-house humanoid program spanning industrial (MIRO) and home/retail lines.
Hanyang University ERICA spin-off and the first Korean humanoid maker to win regulatory-sandbox approval for factory-floor field demonstrations.
Founded by ex-Synapse CEO Sankaet Pathak to build industrial and defense-oriented humanoids; leases units to auto manufacturers and holds US military research contracts.
Consumer-electronics and EV giant whose CyberOne humanoid debuted in 2022 as a technology demonstrator rather than a commercial product.
Ontario-based robotics firm building teleoperated humanoids with haptic force feedback for hazardous industrial tasks; backed by a Canadian Dept. of National Defence IDEaS grant.
UK robotics company founded by Will Jackson in 2004, specializing in expressive, social humanoid robots for entertainment, exhibitions, and human-robot-interaction research. Best known for the Ameca expressive humanoid and the Mesmer hyper-realistic animatronic line. Raised a $10M Series A in December 2024 and restructured as a US company to scale production.
Diversified Japanese heavy-industry conglomerate (motorcycles, aerospace, rolling stock, ships, industrial robots). Its Robot Division has developed the RHP (Robust Humanoid Platform) Kaleido bipedal humanoid since 2015, targeting industrial labor and eventual disaster-response applications.
Aldebaran Robotics, founded in Paris in 2005, created the NAO (2008) and Pepper (2014) social humanoid robots. SoftBank acquired Aldebaran for ~$100M in 2012-2013, rebranding it SoftBank Robotics. After commercial struggles, Aldebaran filed for bankruptcy in February 2025; Shenzhen-based Maxvision Technology acquired the Pepper and NAO IP in July 2025. SoftBank Robotics announced an AI-updated Pepper+ in February 2026.
Diligent Robotics develops Moxi hospital logistics robots. Based in Austin, Texas, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Serve Robotics on January 27, 2026.
Nasdaq-listed (RR) maker of AI-driven service robots for hospitality and healthcare; best known for ADAM, a fixed-base dual-arm bartender/barista robot.
World's largest EV and battery maker, exploring humanoid and service robots for its own factories and car showrooms; executives have discussed home/service robots, but BYD had not announced a publicly named humanoid model as of mid-2026.
Taiwanese collaborative-robot maker and Quanta Computer subsidiary; unveiled its first humanoid, the wheeled TM Xplore I, with NVIDIA and Quanta Cloud Technology.
University of Tokyo-born startup building a 'physical AI' foundation model and humanoid fleet; signed the first mass-production MOU between an automaker and a humanoid developer, with Mitsubishi Motors.
Embodied-AI startup (Xinghaitu) building wheeled dual-arm humanoids as a 'physical engine' platform for embodied AI research; reached a ~$1.4B valuation in Feb 2026.
Major South Korean electronics conglomerate; CLOiD, unveiled at CES 2026, is its first dedicated home-labor humanoid, extending its CLOi service-robot family.
Italian public research institute whose Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence lab built the iCub and ergoCub humanoid research platforms with INAIL.
Academic lab at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (led by Prof. Tamim Asfour) that has built the ARMAR family of humanoid research robots since 2000.
Japan's largest public research institute; its Humanoid Robotics Research Group built the HRP series of full-size research humanoids.
General-purpose humanoid robotics/AI company co-founded by Dr. Harry Kloor and Ray Kurzweil, building the wheeled, teleoperated Beomni platform.
Riyadh robotics/AI company building the first Saudi-made humanoid robots as part of Vision 2030 localization, partnered with UK's Humanoid for local assembly.
Founded by ex-NASA Valkyrie lead Nic Radford and former Figure AI CTO Jerry Pratt to build heavy-duty humanoids for shipyard welding and industrial fabrication.
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Robot companies in 2026: who builds them
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