MentionFox lists 207 Robotics companies. Of them, 175 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Fall 2026, with 13); 20 filed a Form D notice with the SEC; 12 won an SBIR or STTR award.
Companies207
Y Combinator175
Form D filers20
SBIR/STTR winners12
By year
- 2026: 98 companies (73 Y Combinator, 20 Form D filers, 5 SBIR/STTR winners); median amount sold $9M across 20 Form D notices
- 2025: 37 companies (32 Y Combinator, 5 SBIR/STTR winners)
- 2024: 22 companies (20 Y Combinator, 2 SBIR/STTR winners)
Robotics startups from other years
Companies from before 2020, or from a year with fewer than 15 of them. Every other year has its own full list, linked above.
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andromeda Surgical | Autonomous surgical robots | Summer 2023 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sola | Copilot for Robotic Process Automation | Summer 2023 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Persist AI | Developing long-lasting drug formulations 50% faster | Winter 2023 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Hedgehog | Building robotic mushroom farms | Summer 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Polymath Robotics | General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles | Summer 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| AstroForge | We Mine Asteroids | Winter 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Fleetzero | Making all ships robots | Winter 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Impossible Metals | Underwater robotic vehicles that collect battery metals responsibly | Winter 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Industrial Next | IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –… | Winter 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Shinkei Systems | Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. | Winter 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Charge Robotics | Robots that build solar farms | Summer 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Heo Robotics | We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense | Summer 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Revolve Surgical | Surgical robotics for every operating room | Summer 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| BotBuilt | We use robots to build houses. | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Encord | The data layer for physical AI | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Hermes Robotics | Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Reshape Biotech | Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists. | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Roin Technologies | Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction. | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Segments.ai | Build better computer vision models by building better datasets | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nextera Robotics | DIDGE.ai | AI-native Robotics | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Daedalus | AWS for precision manufacturing | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Morphle Labs | Robotic Automation for cancer diagnostics - Robotic Microscopes &… | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Perceptive Technologies | Automated tooth cutting for dentists using imaging, AI and robotics | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Somatic | Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Teleo | Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Lucid Bots | We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Well Principled | The neural engine for autonomous robots | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Yummy Future | We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Zeta Surgical | Next-Generation Surgical Navigation and Robotics | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mobot | Mobot is a QA-as-a-service platform using actual mechanical robots | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nebullam (DBA Clayton Farms) | We put farms inside restaurants, so customers get healthier food and… | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sorting Robotics | We create automation technology for the cannabis industry. | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Trexo Robotics | Exoskeletons to help people walk, starting with children | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Volta Labs, Inc. | Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world. | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Four Growers | Robots that feed the world - robotic harvesting and analytics | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mytos | Robotic human cell manufacturing | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Aerones | Robotics for wind turbine maintenance. | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| AlgoSurg Inc | We make AI technology for Robotic and AR Surgeries | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bear Flag Robotics | Autonomous driving technology for farm tractors. | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Orangewood Labs | Orangewood Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| May Mobility | Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Skyways | Creating a new form of air transportation to advance our civilization | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Tesseract | Tesseract builds better thrusters for modern satellites | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Multiply Labs | Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry | Summer 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Gecko Robotics | AI + Robotics for the Built World | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Opentrons | We make robots for biologists | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Auro Robotics | Autonomous shuttles for campus-like environments. | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| teaBOT | A robot that makes tea! | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Double Robotics | Telepresence robots | Summer 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| CircuitHub | On-Demand Electronics Manufacturing | Winter 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
Selling to these companies?
Export the list: a spreadsheet of the 50 Robotics companies in the table below, with each one's date, amount, round or stage, the record it comes from and its MentionFox page. Free with an account; if you are not signed in, you sign up first and the download starts when you come back to this page.
Export the listA Full Report covers who runs the company, who owns it, where its money comes from and what to watch for, every claim linked to its source. See pricing.
Related startup lists
AI (105 shared) Manufacturing and industrial (37 shared) Hardware and semiconductor (24 shared) Aerospace and defense (18 shared) Biotech (8 shared) Food and agriculture (8 shared)
Figures come only from the record linked in each row; a blank means the record gives none. How these lists are built.