Robotics Software & AI in California
Robot foundation models and vision-language-action policies, simulation and synthetic data, perception stacks, fleet management, teleoperation and developer tooling.
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Builds general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial work and the home, and develops its own vision-language-action model to control them. The company publishes demos of its robots doing logistics and household tasks.
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Alphabet company building a software platform that makes industrial robots easier to program, with perception, motion planning and simulation as reusable building blocks.
Toyota Research Institute
Toyota's US research arm, whose robotics group works on large behavior models, home-assistance robots and manipulation research shared through open publications.
NVIDIA Robotics
Chip maker whose Jetson compute modules, Isaac simulation tools and GR00T robot foundation models are widely used by humanoid and mobile robot developers.
Foxglove
San Francisco company making tools for recording, visualizing and analyzing robotics data, widely used for debugging ROS and custom robot stacks.
Applied Intuition
Supplies simulation, validation and autonomy software to vehicle and machine makers across automotive, defense and off-road equipment.
Stereolabs
Maker of the ZED stereo cameras and perception SDK used for depth, tracking and spatial mapping on robots and autonomous machines.
Third Wave Automation
Union City company building shared-autonomy forklifts that can run autonomously or be taken over remotely by a human operator.
Dexterity
Redwood City company building physical-AI robots that load trucks, palletize and handle boxes in logistics facilities.
Dexmate
Santa Clara company building a mobile humanoid platform with dexterous arms and the learning software to make it useful in everyday environments.
Duality AI
Builds the Falcon digital-twin simulator for generating synthetic training data and testing robot and drone perception before field deployment.
Nimble Robotics
San Francisco company operating AI-run fulfillment centers with robotic picking and packing, offered as a service to e-commerce brands.
Ambi Robotics
Berkeley company whose AI-powered sorting robots handle parcels for logistics providers, built on university research into grasping.
Jacobi Robotics
Berkeley company selling fast motion-planning and control software for industrial arms, spun out of university robotics research.
Nuro
Mountain View company that built purpose-made autonomous delivery vehicles and now licenses its autonomy stack to vehicle makers.
OSARO
San Francisco company supplying machine-learning perception and control software for warehouse piece-picking and packing robots.
DYNA Robotics
Builds task-specific robot arms driven by its own learned models, aimed at commercial jobs such as folding and food handling.
Chef Robotics
San Francisco company deploying AI-driven robot arms that portion ingredients in high-volume food production kitchens.
Cyngn
Mountain View company selling DriveMod autonomous tuggers and an autonomy kit that retrofits industrial vehicles.
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How many robotics software & ai are listed in California?
19 in California. See the statewide page for every robotics company in California regardless of category.