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Harbin Boshi Automation Co., Ltd. (commonly known as BOSHIAC, Boshi, or in Chinese 博实股份; stock code: 002698.SZ) is a Chinese intelligent manufacturing and industrial automation company headquartered in Harbin…
The BYD humanoid, reported under the name "BoYoboD," is a widely circulated story about a $10,000 solar-powered home robot from Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD
A ball screw is a mechanical linear-motion device that converts the rotary motion of a shaft into precise straight-line motion
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.
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…
Behavioral cloning is the approach to imitation learning that reduces control to a supervised learning problem.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite is an open-source humanoid robot research platform developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
Beyond Imagination is a United States general-purpose humanoid robot company founded in January 2018 by the scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Harry Kloor and the futurist Ray Kurzweil.
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.
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.
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
Borg 01 is a modular humanoid robot developed by Borg Robotics, a Detroit-based robotics startup founded in 2022.
Boston Dynamics is an American robotics company that develops mobile robots for industrial inspection, logistics, research, and material handling.
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…
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…
CASIVIBOT is China's first industrial embodied quality inspection robot, developed by CASIVISION (Zhongke Huiyuan Vision Technology (Luoyang) Co., Ltd.)
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.
CORLEO is Kawasaki Heavy Industries' four-legged, rideable off-road mobility concept.
COVVI Ltd is a British medical technology company based in Leeds, England, that designs and manufactures myoelectric upper-limb prostheses.
Yogi is a humanoid robot developed by Cartwheel Robotics, a robotics startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in Fallon, Nevada.
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…
Chelsea Finn 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 Physical Intelligence.
Clone Alpha is a musculoskeletal humanoid robot developed by Clone Robotics, a Polish-American robotics company founded in 2021.
CloudMinds (Chinese: 达闼; pinyin: Dáta), legally CloudMinds Inc. and known in China since around 2020 as Dataa Robotics (达闼机器人)
Cognitive robotics is the subfield of robotics and artificial intelligence concerned with endowing robots with higher-level cognitive capabilities: perception, attention, memory, reasoning, knowledge…
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.
A collaborative robot (commonly called a cobot) is a robot designed to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace without safety fencing.
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.
Control theory is the mathematical and engineering discipline concerned with designing and analysing systems that achieve desired behaviour through measurement and feedback.
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.
Cosmic Robotics is a San Francisco construction-robotics company developing machines and software for large infrastructure projects.
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.
Covariant, Inc. (originally Embodied Intelligence) is an American artificial intelligence company that developed AI software for robotic manipulation and warehouse automation, founded in 2017 by UC Berkeley…
A crossed-roller bearing is a precision rolling element bearing that packs cylindrical rollers into a single V-shaped raceway
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.
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…
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
Degrees of freedom (DoF) count independent ways in which a system, estimate, or model can vary, but the phrase does not denote one universal quantity.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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…
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
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…
Diligent Robotics is an American healthcare robotics company based in Austin, Texas, that builds Moxi
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.
DoorDash Air is the first-party drone delivery program of the American local-commerce platform DoorDash
DoorDash Labs is the robotics and automation organization inside DoorDash, the American local commerce and delivery company.
Doosan Robotics Inc. is a South Korean robotics company that designs and manufactures collaborative robots (cobots) for industrial, food-service, and emerging humanoid applications.
Dot is an autonomous delivery robot designed and built in-house by DoorDash Labs, the robotics and automation arm of DoorDash.
Dream-1 is a robot-control model developed by Dream Labs. Its interface accepts camera images, the robot's current state, and a task, then returns actions for the robot to execute.