Robotics Engineering startups in San Francisco

Nimble Robotics

San Francisco

Nimble is a robotic 3PL providing an eCommerce and omni-channel pick, pack and ship fulfillment service. We've built out and operate a national network of autonomous warehouses using next-gen AI robotics so every brand can offer free 2-day or less delivery. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Our iconic board of directors includes famed robotics and AI icons Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), Sebastian Thrun (founder of Google X and Waymo) and Fei-Fei Li (former Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford's AI Lab and creator of ImageNet).

Chef Robotics

San Francisco

At Chef we believe that AI’s biggest impact will be on the physical world, representing 90% of Global GDP. In the food industry, for example, in 2023 there were 1,137,000 jobs unfilled in food preparation and service (Bureau for Labor Statistics). These growing labor shortages are forcing food companies to leave millions of dollars on the table every year in unmet demand. As this pain becomes more acute, food companies are more aggressively seeking out alternatives, including off-shoring more and more parts of the food supply chain to other countries where there is more labor available; this of course comes with its own significant risks for the US. Chef Robotics offers a new way for food companies to overcome their labor shortage and increase production volume using AI-enabled robots that mimic the flexibility of humans. Chef allows companies to maximize revenue by meeting demand, while keeping the American food supply chain onshore. Chef's mission is to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world to empower humans to do what humans do best.

Bedrock Robotics

San Francisco

Bedrock Robotics brings advanced autonomy to the built world, helping the construction industry build at the pace today's society demands. Our technology upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling truly autonomous operation with expert level quality and superhuman safety. At a time when we need to build faster than ever—from housing to data centers to factories and energy infrastructure—autonomous construction isn't just an innovation, it's an economic necessity.