Robotics

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...

Humanoid Robots

Borg 01

--- Developer Humanoid robot Country of origin Late 2024 Release target 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) Weight 23 Payload capacity Dual-mode (bipedal +...

Humanoid Robots

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an American robotics company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts that builds advanced legged and mobile robots, including the Spot...

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...

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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...

AI Hardware

CASIVIBOT

--- General information CASIVISION (Zhongke Huiyuan Vision Technology (Luoyang) Co., Ltd.) Type China (Luoyang, Henan) Unveiled June 2026 Status ...

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COVVI

COVVI Ltd is a British medical technology company based in Leeds, England, that designs and manufactures myoelectric upper-limb prostheses. Its flagship...

Robot HardwareRobotics Companies

Cartwheel Yogi

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

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...

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Chelsea Finn

Chelsea Finn (born October 8, 1992) is an American computer scientist, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford...

Machine LearningPeople

Clone Alpha

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

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), is a cloud-robotics company...

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Cognitive robotics

Cognitive robotics is the subfield of robotics and artificial intelligence concerned with endowing robots with higher-level cognitive capabilities: perception,...

Artificial IntelligenceEmbodied 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,...

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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. Unlike...

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...

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

Control theory

Control theory is the mathematical and engineering discipline concerned with designing and analysing systems that achieve desired behaviour through measurement...

MathematicsReinforcement Learning

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...

AI Hardware

Covariant (company)

Private Industry October 2017 (as Embodied Intelligence) Founders Emeryville, California, United States Key people Covariant Brain, RFM-1 (Robotics...

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Crossed-roller bearing

A crossed-roller bearing is a precision rolling element bearing that packs cylindrical rollers into a single V-shaped raceway, with each roller's axis turned...

AI Hardware

Cyan Robotics ORCA

--- Developer Humanoid robot Generation October 2024 Height 42 kg (93 lb) with battery Degrees of Freedom 2 hours Walking Speed 5 kg total AI...

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...

DARPA Robotics Challenge

The DARPA Robotics Challenge (commonly abbreviated DRC) was a prize competition organised by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Machine LearningPeople

Deepu Talla

Deepu Talla is the Vice President of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA, where he leads the company's effort to bring artificial intelligence to autonomous...

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Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of freedom (commonly abbreviated DoF or DOF) is the number of independent values that are free to vary when specifying a system, a count that appears...

Artificial Intelligence

DexBot

--- Manufacturer China Year unveiled Prototype Availability DexBot is a dual-form humanoid robot platform developed jointly by Harbin Boshi...

Humanoid Robots

Dexmate Vega

--- Developer Humanoid robot (wheeled mobile manipulator) Country of origin January 2024 Unveiled In production Height 135 kg (298 lb) Degrees of...

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Dexterity (company)

Dexterity (Dexterity, Inc., often styled Dexterity AI) is an American robotics company based in Redwood City, California, that builds AI-powered robotic...

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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...

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...

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...

Artificial IntelligenceEnterprise AI

Diligent Robotics

Diligent Robotics is an American healthcare robotics company based in Austin, Texas, that builds Moxi, an autonomous mobile manipulation robot used by...

AI CompaniesHealthcare 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...

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...

Robotics Companies

Droidlet

Droidlet is an open-source platform from Facebook AI Research (now Meta AI) for building embodied AI agents. Released in 2021, it is a modular framework that...

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...

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...

Artificial Intelligence

Dyna Robotics

Dyna Robotics is an American embodied-AI and robotics startup, founded in 2024 and based in Redwood City, California, that builds robot foundation models for...

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

Electronic skin

Electronic skin (usually shortened to e-skin) is a flexible, stretchable sensing surface built to give a robot, prosthetic limb, or wearable device something...

AI Hardware

Embodied AI

Embodied AI is artificial intelligence that perceives, reasons about, and acts within physical or simulated environments through a body, using sensors to...

Artificial IntelligenceDeep Learning

End effector

An end effector is the device mounted at the working end of a robot arm or wrist: the part that actually touches, grips, welds, or otherwise acts on the world,...

AI Hardware

EngineAI PM01

The EngineAI PM01 is a compact, lightweight humanoid robot developed by EngineAI (formally Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.), a Chinese robotics...

Humanoid Robots

EngineAI SAO2

The EngineAI SAO2 (also written as SA02) is a compact, lightweight humanoid robot unveiled in August 2025 by EngineAI, a Shenzhen-based Chinese robotics...

Humanoid Robots

EngineAI SE01

The EngineAI SE01 is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot unveiled on October 24, 2024 by EngineAI (formally Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co.,...

Humanoid Robots

EngineAI T800

The EngineAI T800 is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by EngineAI (formally Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.), a Chinese...

Humanoid Robots

Estun Codroid 02

--- Developer Humanoid robot Generation Codroid 01 Unveiled China Height 70 kg (154 lb) excluding battery Degrees of Freedom 5 kg per arm ...

Humanoid Robots

EtherCAT

EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) is a real-time industrial Ethernet fieldbus protocol, developed by Beckhoff Automation and introduced in...

AI Hardware

Event camera

An event camera (also called a dynamic vision sensor, DVS, or neuromorphic camera) is an image sensor whose pixels work independently and asynchronously....

Computer Vision

Exoskeleton (Wearable Robotics)

An exoskeleton, sometimes called a powered exoskeleton, exosuit, or wearable robot, is a powered or passive mechanical structure worn on the body to augment,...

Healthcare AI

FORT Robotics

FORT Robotics is a Philadelphia-based technology company that builds safety and security infrastructure for autonomous machines, robots, and industrial...

AI SafetyCompanies

Fanuc

ファナック株式会社 (Fanakku Kabushiki-gaisha) Type Industrial robotics, Computer numerical control, Factory automation Founded Seiuemon Inaba Headquarters ...

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Field AI

Field AI (also written FieldAI) is an American robotics software company based in Irvine, California, that develops foundation models specifically designed for...

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

Figure 02

Figure 02 (also written as F.02) is a commercial general-purpose humanoid robot built by Figure AI, a San Jose, California robotics company, and unveiled on...

Humanoid Robots