German subsidiary of ifm group responsible for sensor manufacturing under the efector brand; founded alongside ifm in 1969 in Essen.
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Germany
German subsidiary of ifm group responsible for sensor manufacturing under the efector brand; founded alongside ifm in 1969 in Essen.
United States
US developer of autonomous agricultural robots for lettuce thinning and harvesting; uses neural net AI for in-field crop identification.
United States
Industrial connector maker supplying M8/M12 circular connectors, solenoid-valve connectors and distribution boxes for automation and fluid power.
German family-owned maker of precision gears, planetary gearboxes, and mechatronic drive solutions for automotive, robotics, medical, and industrial markets.
United States
US industrial AI company offering VisionIQ machine-vision inspection and FaktoryIQ digital-twin platform for manufacturing plants.
United States
Cone Drive Operations is a USA precision gearbox manufacturer founded 1925, making harmonic strain wave gears, worm gears, and slewing drives for robotics.
United States
Joplin, Missouri battery manufacturer supplying power for over 90% of US military munitions and more than 600 satellites currently in orbit.
Spain
Zamudio, Spain dealer of used industrial robots founded in 2001; stocks more than 600 refurbished KUKA, ABB, FANUC, and Motoman units for resale.
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Stanford, California university AI research lab founded 1963 by John McCarthy; about 25 faculty work on machine learning, robotics, vision, and NLP.
United States · North America
Stanford AA department lab researching autonomous navigation and robotics for air, space, land, and water vehicles using feedback control and sensing.
United States · North America
San Jose, California machine-vision company founded by Stanford, MIT, and Google engineers; builds AI inspection systems for factory production lines.
United States · North America
Alameda, California battery materials company founded in 2021 by Stanford-linked researchers; developed the Proteus polymer electrolyte for lithium cells.
United States · North America
Natick, MA maker, founded 1993, of Trigno wireless surface EMG and IMU sensors (up to 32 per base) plus an API for myoelectric control of robots and prostheses.
Denmark · Europe
Copenhagen maker, founded 2014, of camera-free inertial/EMF motion-capture suits and gloves, with a Linux SDK for robot teleoperation and data capture.
United States · North America
San Francisco startup founded 2025 whose Drift AI agent turns natural-language prompts into ROS 2 robot simulations in MuJoCo and Gazebo for robot evaluation.
United States · North America
San Francisco public benefit corporation founded 2026 that benchmarks frontier AI models on real robot arms and maintains the Inspect Robots framework.
United States · North America
Sunnyvale-based agricultural robotics company founded in 2011; acquired by John Deere in 2017 for $305M; makes See & Spray systems for precision weed control.
United States · North America
Redwood City AI robotics company deploying Physical AI-powered robots for warehouse truck loading, palletizing, and logistics.
United States · North America
Santa Clara adaptive robotics company founded 2016; makes force-controlled Rizon arm series with 0.005N force sensing; raised $322M total.
United States · North America
Kind Humanoid (Palo Alto, 2023) built Mona bipedal humanoid for home and healthcare; acquired by 1X Technologies in Jan 2025.