Robotics startups in San Francisco Bay Area

The Bot Company

San Francisco

The Bot Company builds household robots to give people back time, pursuing in-house AI, software and hardware. It plans to deploy millions at home before expanding, and has raised $300M, including a $150M Greenoaks-led round, valuing the co

Rhoda AI

Palo Alto

Rhoda AI develops general-purpose robots powered by frontier AI models for real-world tasks in logistics, manufacturing, and beyond; backed by over $225 million from top-tier investors and building a world-class team to advance technology a

Sauron

San Francisco

Sauron provides residential security via autonomous robots and cars, led by alumni of Zipline, Tesla, Apple, and Google. Incubated by Kevin Hartz and Atomic, it has raised rounds totaling at least $40M from investors including A*, 8VC, and

Crewline AI

San Francisco

Crewline AI retrofits heavy equipment with plug-and-play autonomy and teleoperation kits, enabling autonomous or teleoperated operation on real construction sites across any vehicle. Its hybrid autonomy-plus-human-in-the-loop approach suppo

Medra

San Francisco

Medra uses AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research and eradicate disease, building a Scientific Physical AI platform to scale lab work and generate orders of magnitude more data for faster drug development and biology

Droyd

Burlingame

Droyd builds robots for tasks in controlled environments, starting with data centres, using digital twins and integrations to accelerate rack build-outs; backed by Lux, Refactor, and Ravelin with $3.4M raised, a 4–6 engineer team, planning

Compound Eye

San Francisco

Compound Eye builds computer vision and perception tech to teach machines to see. With a US team of 15, it closed a Series A led by a tier-one VC and backed by Khosla Ventures, serving automotive, agriculture, healthcare, defense.

Camfer

San Francisco

Camfer enables engineers to use natural language for CAD tasks, building AI agents that autonomously design, source off-the-shelf parts, and generate drawings. It has Y Combinator recognition and OpenAI's o1 hackathon wins, plus a $4.8M see

OverlayRobotics

Oakland

Overlay is a venture-backed pre-launch startup developing the first intelligent makeup robot, redefining beauty application through robotics, perception, and design. With a stealth team, it aims to create a category of personal robotics at

Nexus Intelligence

San Francisco

An a16z-backed software startup building AI-enabled industrial automation systems for Fortune 100 customers across automotive, food, energy, and other sectors, aiming to become the platform for developing and deploying modern industrial aut

Bucket Robotics

San Francisco

Bucket Robotics seeks to solve the problem that 95% of industrial robots are blind, addressing robot blindness as its core mission.

Saphira AI

San Francisco

Saphira AI builds tools for safety and compliance teams in hardware companies to accelerate and streamline processes, serving startups to industry leaders in semiconductors, aerospace, and robotics, delivering faster, cheaper safety and com

Andromeda Surgical

South San Francisco

Andromeda Surgical is developing autonomous surgical robots to shorten the learning curve for surgeons. By leveraging off-the-shelf hardware, it builds controls, planning, and ML algorithms to guide surgeons to perform steps more quickly an

Cerulion

Mountain View

Cerulion, founded in 2024 by MIT PhDs, is a robotics company building a backwards-compatible open source robot middleware as a modern foundation for robotic systems, backed by a seed round from top-tier investors, motivated by dissatisfacti

Charge Robotics

Oakland

Charge Robotics builds robots to automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction, removing bottlenecks to enable faster deployment of solar energy. It helps construction companies meet rising solar demand by addressing labor l

Multiply Labs

San Francisco

Multiply Labs, a 36-person San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 by Fred Parietti and Alice Melocchi, delivers pharmaceutical automation via a pharma robotics as a service model, enabling life-saving therapies and partnering with glob

Pave Robotics

San Francisco

Pave Robotics develops robots that repair roads to improve infrastructure. Founded by Josh Kelly (CEO) and Mason Landon Smith (Chief Product Officer), it operates in the road repair robotics market as a robotics company.

Relling

San Francisco

Relling develops data and infrastructure for world models, building advanced datasets to power world-models for humanoid robots and AR systems.

Spaceium

San Francisco

Spaceium Inc, a YC S24 startup, is building space stations to refuel and repair spacecraft. It has multi-million-dollar contracts, plans a soon-to-fly demo mission, and secured one of the largest seed rounds in YC S24, signaling strong earl

Polymath Robotics

San Francisco

Polymath Robotics develops software to safely control all industrial vehicles and quickly bring autonomous vehicles to various industries. With about 20 employees, its engineering is based in SF Mission office three days a week as part of a

DeepAware AI

San Francisco

DeepAware AI is a YC-backed startup delivering AI-powered infrastructure management and autonomous robotics for data centers, aiming to improve security, uptime, and energy efficiency by up to 30% for operators and AI infrastructure provide

Weave Robotics

San Francisco

Weave Robotics develops personal robots for home use and positions itself as the maker of the first home-built personal robots, with plans to ship its home-based robots in 2025.