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Ball screw

A ball screw is a mechanical linear-motion device that converts the rotary motion of a shaft into precise straight-line motion

AI Hardware

Bardeen

Bardeen is a browser-based workflow automation tool developed by Bardeen, Inc. (operating as Bardeen.ai), a San Francisco company founded in 2020 by Pascal Weinberger and Artem Harutyunyan.

AI AgentsAI Companies

Bear Robotics

Bear Robotics, Inc. is an American robotics company, founded in 2017 in Redwood City, California, by former Google software engineer John Ha, that designs and operates autonomous service robots for the…

AI Companies

Bionic hand

A bionic hand is a powered artificial hand, usually controlled by the electrical signals of the wearer's own muscles, that restores grasping function to a person who has lost a hand or was born without one.

Embodied AIRobot Hardware

Bipedal locomotion

Bipedal locomotion is movement powered by two legs, and in robotics it is the control problem of building machines that walk, run, balance, climb stairs, and recover from disturbances on two legs.

Humanoid Robots

Booster T1

The Booster T1 is a lightweight, open-source humanoid robot developed by Booster Robotics (北京加速进化科技有限公司), a Beijing-based Chinese robotics startup founded in 2023 by Cheng Hao

Humanoid Robots

Borg 01

Borg 01 is a modular humanoid robot developed by Borg Robotics, a Detroit-based robotics startup founded in 2022.

Humanoid Robots

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an American robotics company that develops mobile robots for industrial inspection, logistics, research, and material handling.

AI Companies

BrainCo

BrainCo, Inc. (Chinese: 强脑科技; pinyin: Qiángnǎo Kējì) is a neurotechnology company that develops non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) products, bionic prosthetics, and dexterous robotic hands for…

AI CompaniesChinese AI

Brushless DC motor

A brushless DC motor (BLDC motor) is an electric motor design in which permanent magnets are mounted on the rotating rotor and an electronic controller switches current through stationary stator windings to…

AI Hardware

CASIVIBOT

CASIVIBOT is China's first industrial embodied quality inspection robot, developed by CASIVISION (Zhongke Huiyuan Vision Technology (Luoyang) Co., Ltd.)

Humanoid Robots

CATL

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) is a Chinese battery manufacturer based in Ningde, Fujian province, and the largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage in the world.

AI HardwareChinese AI

Cartwheel Yogi

Yogi is a humanoid robot developed by Cartwheel Robotics, a robotics startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in Fallon, Nevada.

Humanoid Robots

Chef Robotics

Chef Robotics is an American robotics company, headquartered in San Francisco, that builds AI-powered robotic arms which assemble prepared meals by portioning ingredients into trays and packaging on…

AI CompaniesRobotics Companies

Chelsea Finn

Chelsea Finn (born October 8, 1992) is an American computer scientist, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, and a co-founder of the robotics company…

Machine LearningPeople

Clone Alpha

Clone Alpha is a musculoskeletal humanoid robot developed by Clone Robotics, a Polish-American robotics company founded in 2021.

Humanoid Robots

CloudMinds

CloudMinds (Chinese: 达闼; pinyin: Dáta), legally CloudMinds Inc. and known in China since around 2020 as Dataa Robotics (达闼机器人)

AI CompaniesChinese AI

Collaborative Robotics (company)

Collaborative Robotics, which operates under the brand Cobot, is an American robotics company founded in 2022 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a second office in Seattle, Washington.

AI Companies

Collaborative robot

A collaborative robot (commonly called a cobot) is a robot designed to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace without safety fencing.

Config (company)

Config (legally Config Intelligence) is a robotics data startup that builds the data layer for robot foundation models, positioning itself as a neutral data supplier rather than a robot maker.

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

Coreless motor

A coreless motor, also called an ironless motor, is a small electric motor whose rotor, the spinning part, carries a self-supporting winding of copper wire with no iron core wound inside it.

AI Hardware

Cost of transport

Cost of transport (COT), also called specific cost of transport, specific resistance, or the dimensionless cost of transport, is the standard measure of how much energy a moving body spends to travel.

Embodied AI

Covariant (company)

Covariant, Inc. (originally Embodied Intelligence) is an American artificial intelligence company that builds AI software for robotic manipulation and warehouse automation, founded in October 2017 by UC…

AI CompaniesRobotics Companies

Cyan Robotics ORCA

ORCA (also styled Orca I or ORCA 1) is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Cyan Robotics, a Shanghai-based startup formally registered as Shanghai Qingxin Yichuang Technology Co.

Humanoid Robots

Cycloidal drive

A cycloidal drive (also called a cycloidal speed reducer, cyclo drive, cycloidal gearbox, or, in industrial robotics, an RV reducer) is a compact mechanical speed reducer that converts high-speed, low-torque…

DARPA Robotics Challenge

The DARPA Robotics Challenge (commonly abbreviated DRC) was a prize competition organised by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that ran from October 2012 through June 2015

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DEEP Robotics DR01

The DEEP Robotics DR01 (also styled Dr.01) is the first humanoid robot developed by DEEP Robotics, a Chinese AI and robotics company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Humanoid Robots

DEEP Robotics DR02

The DEEP Robotics DR02 is a second-generation humanoid robot, unveiled on October 9, 2025, that DEEP Robotics markets as the world's first full-size humanoid robot to achieve a full-body IP66 dust and water…

Humanoid Robots

DJI

DJI (officially SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd., also known as Shenzhen Da-Jiang Innovations Sciences and Technologies Ltd.) is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and…

AI CompaniesChinese AI

DOBOT Atom

The DOBOT Atom is a full-size humanoid robot developed by DOBOT Robotics (formally Shenzhen Yuejiang Technology Co., Ltd.), priced at approximately $27,500 (199,000 yuan) and unveiled in March 2025 as one of…

Humanoid Robots

DOBOT Atom Max

The DOBOT Atom Max is a full-size humanoid robot developed by DOBOT Robotics (formally Shenzhen Yuejiang Technology Co., Ltd.), a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

Humanoid Robots

Dactyl (OpenAI)

Dactyl was a robotics research project at OpenAI that used deep reinforcement learning to control a five-fingered, human-like robot hand and manipulate physical objects with high dexterity.

OpenAIReinforcement Learning

Deepak Pathak

Deepak Pathak is an Indian American roboticist and machine learning researcher who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Skild AI, a startup building a general purpose foundation model for robotics.

Machine LearningPeople

Deepu Talla

Deepu Talla is the vice president of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA. He leads an organization that brings artificial intelligence to autonomous machines and intelligent devices, including humanoid robots…

NVIDIAPeople

Delivery robot

A delivery robot is a wheeled, uncrewed ground vehicle that carries goods over the last mile of a delivery, from a store, restaurant or depot to a customer. The category is not one thing.

Autonomous Vehicles

DexBot

DexBot is a dual-form humanoid robot platform developed jointly by Harbin Boshi Automation Co., Ltd. (branded as BOSHIAC, Shenzhen Stock Exchange ticker 002698) and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).

Humanoid Robots

Dexmate Vega

Dexmate Vega (often referred to simply as Vega) is a general-purpose mobile humanoid robot developed by Dexmate AI, Inc., a robotics startup headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Humanoid Robots

Dexterity (company)

Dexterity (Dexterity, Inc., often styled Dexterity AI) is an American robotics company based in Redwood City, California, that builds AI-powered robotic systems for warehouses, logistics, and supply chains.

AI Companies

Dexterous hand

A dexterous hand (also called a dexterous robotic hand or multi-fingered robot hand) is an anthropomorphic end effector that reproduces the grasping, in-hand manipulation, and tactile perception of the human…

Embodied AIHumanoid Robots

Diffusion policy

Diffusion policy is a robot imitation-learning method, introduced in 2023 by Cheng Chi, Shuran Song, and collaborators at Columbia University, the Toyota Research Institute, and MIT

Deep LearningDiffusion Models

Digital twin

A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical object, process, or system that is continuously updated with real-time data from its physical counterpart, so the digital copy mirrors the structure, context…

Artificial IntelligenceEnterprise AI

DoorDash

DoorDash, Inc. is an American on-demand local commerce and food-delivery company that uses applied machine learning to run a real-time logistics marketplace connecting consumers, merchants, and couriers.

AI CompaniesMachine Learning

Doosan Robotics

Doosan Robotics Inc. is a South Korean robotics company that designs and manufactures collaborative robots (cobots) for industrial, food-service, and emerging humanoid applications.

Robotics Companies

Droidlet

Droidlet is an open-source platform from Facebook AI Research (now Meta AI) for building embodied AI agents.

Embodied AIMeta AI

Drone

A drone is an aircraft that flies without a human pilot on board, controlled either remotely by an operator or autonomously by onboard computers using artificial intelligence and sensors.

Computer Vision

Drone AI

Drone AI refers to the application of artificial intelligence technologies to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, enabling them to perform tasks autonomously or semi-autonomously.

Artificial Intelligence