Reward AI
Reward AI is a robotics company that builds general-purpose manipulation policies meant to run on many different robot bodies. The company gives its location as the Bay Area, California, on its X account.
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Rhoda AI
Rhoda AI (also called Rhoda) is an American robotics company that builds robot foundation models pre-trained mainly on internet video, along with its own robot hardware for factory and warehouse work.
RoBee
RoBee is a cognitive humanoid robot developed by Oversonic Robotics, an Italian company headquartered in Carate Brianza, Lombardy.
Robbyant R1
The Robbyant R1 is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Robbyant (formally known as Ant Lingbo Technology, or Shanghai Mayi Lingbo Technology), a robotics subsidiary of Ant Group
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH, known as Bosch, is a German engineering and technology company that is the world's largest automotive supplier and one of Europe's largest corporate investors in artificial intelligence.
RoboArena
RoboArena is a distributed, real-world benchmark for generalist robot policies in which volunteer evaluators at different laboratories run double-blind, pairwise (A/B) comparisons of policies on tasks and…
RoboCasa
RoboCasa is a large-scale simulation framework for training generalist robots to perform everyday household tasks.
RoboCat
RoboCat is a self-improving foundation agent for robotic manipulation developed by Google DeepMind.
RoboChallenge
RoboChallenge is an online benchmarking platform that evaluates robot control policies, mainly vision-language-action models (VLAs), on physical robots instead of in simulation.
RoboCup
RoboCup (short for Robot World Cup) is an international scientific initiative and annual competition, founded in 1997, that uses the game of soccer as a standard problem to drive research in artificial…
RoboDojo
RoboDojo is a benchmark for generalist robot manipulation policies that combines a simulation suite of 42 tasks with a real-robot suite of 18 tasks, a standardized physical test platform called…
RoboForce TITAN
TITAN is an AI-powered industrial mobile manipulator developed by RoboForce, an American robotics startup headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Robocurve
Robocurve (Robocurve, Inc., which styles itself Robocurve PBC) is a San Francisco public benefit corporation that evaluates how well frontier AI models and robot-control models perform on real robots, and…
Roboligent Robin
Robin is a mobile dual-arm humanoid robot developed by Roboligent, a robotics company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.
Robostral Navigate
Robostral Navigate is an 8-billion-parameter vision language model developed by Mistral AI for instruction-following robot navigation.
Robot
A robot is a programmable machine that senses its environment, computes a decision, and acts on the physical world through a closed loop of perception, planning, and actuation.
Robot Operating System (ROS)
Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open-source software platform for building robot applications.
Robot form factor
Robot form factor is the physical shape and mobility architecture of a robot: whether it moves on wheels, tracks, legs, or a hybrid of these; how many limbs and joints it carries
Robot foundation model
A robot foundation model is a large-scale machine learning model, typically based on the transformer architecture, that is pre-trained on broad, diverse datasets of robot interactions and then adapted to a…
Robot learning
Robot learning studies how robots acquire or improve behavior from data and experience.
Robot locomotion
Robot locomotion refers to the methods by which robots move through their environment, with a particular focus on legged robots that walk, run, climb, and balance using discrete footholds rather than…
Robot manipulation
Robot manipulation is the ability of a robotic system to physically interact with objects in its environment through grasping, pushing, pulling, inserting, placing, and other contact-based actions.
Robot navigation
Robot navigation is the ability of a mobile robot to determine its own position in its environment, plan a path toward a goal, and execute that path while avoiding obstacles.
Robot safety
Robot safety is the discipline concerned with minimizing the risk of physical harm, property damage, and other hazards arising from the operation of robotic systems.
Robot skin
Robot skin is the outer covering of a robot: the layer, or set of layers, applied to the outside of a machine for appearance, protection, safety, hygiene, and, increasingly, touch sensing.
Robot teleoperation
Robot teleoperation is the remote control of a robot by a human operator over a communication link that carries commands from the operator to the robot and sensory feedback from the robot back to the operator.
RobotEra L7
The RobotEra L7 (Chinese: 星动 L7, Xingdong L7) is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by Beijing-based RobotEra (星动纪元), a Tsinghua University spin-off founded in August 2023.
Robotera Star1
The Robotera Star1 (stylized as STAR1) is a full-size, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Robotera (Beijing Robot Era Technology Co., Ltd.), a Chinese robotics startup incubated by Tsinghua University.
Robotics
Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and engineering of robots: embodied machines whose mechanisms, sensors, computation, and actuators are organized to perform tasks in the physical world.
Robotics Capability Framework
The Robotics Capability Framework is a reference framework published by Arm in September 2026 for describing what intelligent robots and other embodied AI systems can do.
Robotics and AI Institute
The Robotics and AI Institute (RAI Institute) is a robotics and artificial intelligence research organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a second office in Zurich, Switzerland.
Robotics as a Service
Robotics as a Service (RaaS), also written robots-as-a-service or robot-as-a-service, is a business model in which a provider supplies robots together with the software, connectivity, maintenance, and support…
Robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area
Robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area includes academic research in perception and control, companies developing robot hardware and learned policies, and suppliers of computing and simulation tools.
Robust AI
Robust AI (styled Robust.AI) is an American robotics company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Carlos, California.
Rochu Robotics
Rochu Robotics (Chinese: 苏州柔触机器人科技有限公司, branded ROCHU) is a Chinese robotics company that develops soft end effectors for industrial automation.
Rolling-element bearing
A rolling-element bearing is a machine component that lets one part rotate or pivot against another while carrying load, typically a shaft turning inside a housing, by placing hardened balls or rollers between…
Rotary encoder
A rotary encoder is an electromechanical sensor that measures the angular position, direction, and speed of a rotating shaft and converts that motion into an electrical signal a controller can read.
SIASUN DUCO
DUCO (an acronym for DO UNIQUE COBOT) is the collaborative robot (cobot) brand of SIASUN Robot & Automation Co., Ltd., one of China's largest robotics companies.
SIASUN Songxing
Songxing (Chinese: 松行, literally "Pine Walk") is a bipedal humanoid robot developed by SIASUN Robot & Automation Co., Ltd., one of China's largest and most established robotics companies.
SIMPLER
SIMPLER (Simulated Manipulation Policy Evaluation for Real Robot Setups) is a collection of simulated robot manipulation environments, released in 2024
SO-101
The SO-101 (Standard Open Arm 101) is a low-cost, open-source, 3D-printable robot arm designed by The Robot Studio in collaboration with Hugging Face and published in the TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 repository…
SONIC (Humanoid Control)
SONIC, short for Supersizing mOtion tracking for Natural humanoId Control, is a physics-based whole-body motion tracking and control system developed by Nvidia.
SUPCON Technology
SUPCON Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中控技术; pinyin: Zhōngkòng Jìshù), formally Zhejiang Supcon Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese industrial automation and industrial artificial intelligence company…
Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI (formally Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation) is a Canadian artificial intelligence and robotics company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, that builds general-purpose humanoid…
Sarcomere Dynamics
Sarcomere Dynamics Inc. is a Canadian robotics company based in St. Albert, Alberta that designs compact, high-dexterity robotic hands sold under the ARTUS brand.
Satyress
Satyress is a small robotics company based in Auburn, California, that is developing Threehalves, a teleoperated centaur-form machine: a humanlike torso and arms mounted on a four-legged base.
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American computer scientist, roboticist, and entrepreneur best known for leading the Stanford team that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge with the autonomous…
Sensor fusion
Sensor fusion is the process of combining data from multiple sensors, often of different types, to produce information that is more accurate, complete, or reliable than any single sensor could provide on its…
Sergey Levine
Sergey Levine is a computer scientist, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-founder of Physical Intelligence
Series Elastic Actuator
A series elastic actuator (SEA) is an actuator with an intentionally compliant element in the mechanical force path between its power source and its load.
Service robot
A service robot is a robot "in personal use or professional use that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment," according to the international vocabulary standard ISO 8373:2021.
Servo motor
A servo motor is a motor operated inside a closed feedback loop: a controller sends a target position, speed, or torque, a sensor, typically a rotary encoder, reports what the motor actually did, and the…
Shadow Robot Company
The Shadow Robot Company is a British robotics firm based in London that designs and builds anthropomorphic dexterous hands and teleoperation systems for research.
Sharpa North
Sharpa North is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Sharpa, a Singapore-headquartered artificial intelligence robotics company founded by the three co-founders of Hesai Technology.
Shenzhen Robot Valley
Shenzhen Robot Valley (Chinese: 机器人谷) is a robotics industry cluster in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, China, concentrated along a roughly 10-kilometer corridor of Liuxian Avenue in the narrow valley…
Siemens
Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate, headquartered in Munich, that is one of Europe's largest industrial companies and one of the world's leading providers of industrial AI.
Sim-to-real transfer
Sim-to-real transfer (also written as sim2real) is the process of training a policy, controller, or perception model inside a physics simulator and deploying it on a physical robot in the real world without…
Simulation (in AI and robotics)
Simulation in artificial intelligence and robotics is the use of computational physics, rendering, and procedural environments to recreate a synthetic version of a physical or virtual world inside which AI…
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the computational problem of building a map of an unknown environment while at the same time estimating the position of a sensor, vehicle, or agent moving…
Skild AI
Skild AI is a robotics artificial intelligence company building a general-purpose foundation model for physical embodiments