Companies building robots

Melbourne startup building AI-powered companion robots for aged care; its Abi robot is deployed across mecwacare aged-care homes in Australia.

Abi 39

TU Munich Roboy spin-off building 'Robody' teleoperated care avatars for elderly home care, VR-controlled with sub-200ms latency.

Robody 39

Hong Kong-based robotics company founded by American roboticist David Hanson, known for lifelike social humanoid robots using its patented Frubber skin. Its most famous creation, Sophia, became a global media and AI-marketing phenomenon after activation in 2016.

Sophia 38 Desdemona 27

Kerala deep-tech startup building humanoid robots in-house; first Indian company selected for NVIDIA's Humanoid Robotics Program.

Tara Gen 1 38

Part of the Kawada Technologies group; has built the dual-arm NEXTAGE collaborative torso robot for Japanese factory automation since 2009.

NEXTAGE Fillie 38

European research-robotics veteran whose fully electric, torque-controlled TALOS humanoid is sold to robotics labs worldwide.

REEM-C 37 TALOS 34 Kangaroo 28

World's largest automaker by volume, with a long-running Partner Robot research program. Its T-HR3 (2017) is a third-generation teleoperated humanoid research platform built to explore safe, force-feedback-based human-robot interaction rather than commercial deployment.

CUE7 35 T-HR3 23

Tokyo-founded space-robotics startup building humanoid-torso robots to replace astronauts for routine space-station and lunar-base work; partnered with JAXA.

G1 34

French open-source robotics pioneer (Inria spin-off) behind the Reachy line; acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025 to open-source hardware and software for embodied AI.

Reachy 2 34

Startup building musculoskeletal androids with synthetic water-hydraulic 'Myofiber' muscles over a polymer skeleton instead of rigid servo actuators.

Protoclone V1 34

Paris humanoid startup founded by Remi Cadene (former Tesla Optimus scientist, creator of Hugging Face's LeRobot) targeting Europe as its beachhead market.

Northstar 29

KOSDAQ-listed Korean robotics component and platform maker best known for DYNAMIXEL smart actuators; builds the open-source THORMANG humanoid research platform.

AI Sapiens K1 26 THORMANG3 21

Italian humanoid startup founded by former IIT researchers, commercializing 20+ years of IIT humanoid R&D (iCub/ergoCub) under exclusive license; raised one of Europe's largest humanoid rounds.

GENE.01 18

R&D subsidiary of NAVER Corporation researching cable-driven dual-arm manipulation for safe human-robot collaboration.

AMBIDEX 18

Kyoto-based practical-robotics company leading KyoHA, a 14-company/2-university Japanese consortium formed to build a fully domestic humanoid robot supply chain.

SEIMEI 18

Academic robotics lab (EECS/Mechanical Engineering) building low-cost, open-source humanoid research platforms for reinforcement-learning locomotion and manipulation.

Berkeley Humanoid 14 Berkeley Humanoid Lite 14

Academic lab directed by Prof. Sangbae Kim (of Cheetah quadruped fame) developing the MIT Humanoid as a dynamic, acrobatic bipedal research platform.

MIT Humanoid 13

U.S.-based maker of Servi service robots, founded in May 2017; LG Electronics became its largest shareholder in 2025. In 2026 it acquired Bristol-based Kinisi Robotics and now offers Kinisi's wheeled humanoid as Kinisi.

South Korean startup spun out of Seoul National University's DYROS Lab developing the P-73 bipedal humanoid with modular dexterous hands for research and healthcare pilot applications.

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Chinese robotics company that builds the TLIBOT T1, a bipedal humanoid robot with 71 DoF designed for automation applications.

Develops the NAO robot line: its parent, Maxvision Technology Corp., acquired the core assets of Aldebaran in July 2025.

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EV and energy giant developing the Optimus humanoid as a mass-market general-purpose robot, leveraging its FSD autonomy stack and in-house AI silicon.

Teradyne-owned Danish firm that created the collaborative-robot category; the e-Series is the reference cobot line.