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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

Drone delivery

Drone delivery is the transport of goods by uncrewed aircraft, usually over the last few miles between a store, restaurant, warehouse or hospital and a customer's home or another facility.

Autonomous Vehicles

Dyna Robotics

Dyna Robotics (styled DYNA Robotics in its own materials) 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

Edward Johns

Edward David Johns is a British robotics researcher who is Professor of Robot Learning in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he directs the Robot Learning Lab, and co-founder and CEO…

Embodied AIPeople

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 close to the tactile sense of biological skin: the…

Robot Hardware

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, while the rest of the arm exists only to position…

Robot 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 startup headquartered in Shenzhen.

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 startup, and pitched by the company as "the first…

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., Ltd.)

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 robotics startup headquartered in Shenzhen, that…

Humanoid Robots

Estun Codroid 02

The Estun Codroid 02 is a second-generation industrial humanoid robot developed by Nanjing Estun Codroid Technology, a subsidiary of Estun Automation Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 002747; HKEX: 2715).

Humanoid Robots

EtherCAT

EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) is a real-time industrial Ethernet fieldbus protocol, developed by Beckhoff Automation and introduced in April 2003, that delivers microsecond-class…

Robot 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, assist, or restore human movement.

Healthcare AI

EyeRobot

EyeRobot is a line of robot-learning research from the University of California, Berkeley that gives a manipulator robot an actively controlled "eye" and trains it to look where looking helps the arm act.

Computer VisionEmbodied AI

FORT Robotics

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

AI CompaniesAI Safety

Fanuc

FANUC Corporation is a Japanese industrial automation company headquartered in Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture.

AI Companies

Field AI

Field AI (also written FieldAI) is an American robotics software company based in Irvine, California, that develops foundation models specifically designed for autonomous robots operating in outdoor and…

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

Figure 03

Figure 03 is a third-generation general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Figure AI and unveiled on October 9, 2025, as the company's first robot designed primarily for the home and engineered from the…

Humanoid Robots

Figure AI

Figure AI is a privately held American robotics company that develops electrically powered humanoid robots and the software used to control them. Brett Adcock founded the company in 2022.

AI CompaniesHumanoid Robots

Flytrex

Flytrex is an Israeli-founded autonomous drone delivery company that operates on-demand food and retail delivery services in suburban Texas and North Carolina.

AI CompaniesAutonomous Vehicles

Force-torque sensor

A force-torque sensor (F/T sensor) is a transducer that measures three orthogonal forces (Fx, Fy, Fz) and three torques or moments (Tx, Ty, Tz) applied simultaneously at a single point, across six degrees of…

Robot Hardware

Foundation (robotics company)

Foundation is an American humanoid robot company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that develops a general-purpose humanoid called Phantom and markets it for both industrial automation and military…

AI CompaniesDefense AI

Foundation Phantom MK1

The Foundation Phantom MK1 (also written as Phantom MK-1) is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Foundation, an American robotics company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Humanoid Robots

Fourier GR-1

The Fourier GR-1 is a full-size general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Fourier Intelligence (now branded as Fourier), a Shanghai-based company with deep roots in rehabilitation robotics.

Humanoid Robots

Fourier GR-2

The Fourier GR-2 is a general-purpose humanoid robot unveiled on September 30, 2024 by Fourier Intelligence (now operating as Fourier), a Shanghai-based robotics company.

Humanoid Robots

Fourier Intelligence

Fourier Intelligence (Chinese: 傅利叶; now operating as Fourier and Fourier Rehab) is a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shanghai that builds rehabilitation robots and general-purpose humanoid robots…

AI CompaniesChinese AI

GENE.01

GENE.01 is a humanoid robot concept developed by Generative Bionics, an Italian robotics company headquartered in Genoa.

Humanoid Robots

GENISOM AI

GENISOM AI is a Chinese embodied-intelligence company that develops and mass-produces four-legged robots, the machines popularly called robot dogs.

AI CompaniesChinese AI

Galaxea R1

The Galaxea R1 is a series of wheeled dual-arm humanoid robots developed by Galaxea AI (also known as Galaxea Dynamics), a Chinese embodied AI and robotics startup founded in 2023.

Humanoid Robots

Galaxea R1 Lite

The Galaxea R1 Lite is a compact wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot developed by Galaxea AI (also known as Galaxea Dynamics), a Chinese embodied AI and robotics startup founded in September 2023.

Humanoid Robots

Galaxea R1 Pro

The Galaxea R1 Pro is a full-size wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot developed by Galaxea AI (also known as Galaxea Dynamics), a Chinese embodied AI and robotics startup founded in September 2023.

Humanoid Robots

Galbot

Galbot (Chinese: 银河通用机器人, also known as Galaxy General Robotics or Galaxy General) is a Chinese embodied AI and general-purpose robotics company headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing.

Chinese AIEmbodied AI

Galbot G1

Galbot G1 is a wheeled, dual-arm mobile manipulator built by Beijing Galbot Co., Ltd., a Chinese embodied-AI start-up that also goes by the name Galaxy General (Chinese: 银河通用).

Chinese AIHumanoid Robots

Galbot G1 Premium

The Galbot G1 Premium is an upgraded variant of the Galbot G1 wheeled semi-humanoid robot, developed by Beijing Galaxy General Robot Co., Ltd. (commonly known as Galbot, Chinese: 银河通用机器人).

Humanoid Robots

Gazebo Simulator

Gazebo is an open-source 3D dynamic robotics simulator that has served as the de facto standard simulation environment for the robot software research community for over two decades.

Open Source AI

Gemini Robotics 2

Gemini Robotics 2 is a family of three robotics models announced by Google DeepMind on July 30, 2026: a vision-language-action (VLA) model of the same name, an embodied reasoning model called Gemini Robotics…

AI ModelsEmbodied AI

Generalist AI

Generalist AI (branded Generalist, legally Generalist AI, Inc.) is an American artificial intelligence company building general-purpose foundation models for robots and other physical systems.

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

Genesis AI (company)

Genesis AI is a robotics company building a general-purpose robot foundation model, the dexterous hardware the model runs on, and the simulation software used to develop it.

AI CompaniesEmbodied AI

GigaAI Maker H01

The GigaAI Maker H01 is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by GigaAI, a Chinese artificial intelligence and robotics startup headquartered in Beijing.

Humanoid Robots

HIVA Haiwa

HIVA Haiwa is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Haier Group Corporation in partnership with RobotEra (Star Era Technology Co.), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup.

Humanoid Robots

HMND 01

HMND 01 is a modular humanoid robot developed by Humanoid (legally registered as SKL Robotics Ltd), a London-based United Kingdom robotics and artificial intelligence company founded in 2024 by serial…

Humanoid Robots

HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal

The HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot built by Humanoid (legally SKL Robotics Ltd), a London-based United Kingdom robotics and artificial intelligence company founded in 2024 by…

Humanoid Robots

Harmonic Drive

A Harmonic Drive, also known as a strain wave gear, is a precision mechanical gear reducer that achieves very high reduction ratios (roughly 30:1 to 320:1) in a single compact stage by using the controlled…

Robot Hardware

Helix (Figure AI)

Helix is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for generalist humanoid control, developed in-house by Figure AI, the Sunnyvale, California humanoid-robot company founded by Brett Adcock.

AI ModelsEmbodied AI