MentionFox lists 37 Robotics companies for 2025. Of them, 32 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Fall 2025, with 7); 5 won an SBIR or STTR award. The median SBIR or STTR award in the table is $849,236, across 5 awards.
Companies37
Y Combinator32
SBIR/STTR winners5
Other years
All years (207) 2026 (98) 2024 (22)
Robotics startups in 2025
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluxworks, Inc. | Advancing manufacturing on earth and beyond through magnetic gear technology development | Award starts Sep 15, 2025 | $1.5M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Cortex AI | Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Darwin | Humanoid robots | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Forge Robotics | A robotics intelligence system for metal fabrication | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Lightberry | Robots with soul | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Parametric | Physical businesses that run themselves | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Philon | General Purpose Robots | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Piggy Robotics | Humanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone! | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Motiv Space Systems, Inc. | 80nssc25c0101 "safe persistent operations with cobots in space (spocs)" | Award starts Aug 13, 2025 | $849,236 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Traclabs Inc. | 80nssc25c0428 entitled "advanced software technologies for space robotics" | Award starts Jul 7, 2025 | $184,663 | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| Picknik Inc. | Space ros: a modular framework for cost-effective, reusable space robotics systems | Award starts Jul 1, 2025 | $848,974 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Cactus Compute | Automation Foundation Models For Tiny Devices | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley) | Robots, parts & RL envs & evals - delivered in 48 hrs / pickup in SF. | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Flywheel AI | Waymo for excavators | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Maximal | Truckload Planning at Machine Precision | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Physical Turing | Next generation robot deployer | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Relling | deploying the first billion robots for manufacturing | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Topological | Physics-based foundation models for CAD optimization. | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Verne Robotics | AI models that teach robots new skills in hours | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Charles River Analytics, Inc. | Af22b-t004 human-autonomy teaming testbed for research (hatter) | Award starts Apr 14, 2025 | $1.7M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Almond | A dual-arm robot built for physical AI. | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Boost Robotics | Robots for the inspection and maintenance of data centers | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mbodi AI | Industrial Robots that Learn and Operate Like Humans | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| MorphoAI | Software tool for designing robots and machines | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sureform | Real-world data and RL environments for frontier AI | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| The Robot Learning Company | Tools for the next era of physical automation. | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Vassar Robotics | Open-source semi-humanoid dev kit → home data → autonomy → 20h/wk | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Vision Lab | Industrial data layer for robotics training | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Zeon Systems | AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation. | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Axal | We design, assemble, and test custom PCBs fast. | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Dalus | AI-Powered Hardware System Design Software | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Forge Automation | Software Enabled CNC Parts Supplier | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| General Trajectory | AI for the physical world | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Pave Robotics | Robots that repair roads | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Proception Inc | Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Red Barn Robotics | A Roomba for weeds on a farm | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Steinmetz | Next-Generation Power Electronics | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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