Alternatives to 1X Technologies

Figure AI builds the Figure 03 humanoid robot and the Helix AI stack, deployed at BMW and moving toward home use.

Agility Robotics deploys Digit humanoid robots for warehouse tote moving, orchestrated through the Arc cloud fleet platform.

Compress, verify, and deploy vision-language and world-action models on edge robots with General Instinct.

Lightberry is the social brain layer that lets you talk to the Lumi humanoid robot and have it learn from you.

Mbodi AI teaches industrial robots new skills through natural conversation and on-floor demonstration — no programming, no downtime.

Autonomous data center robots doing 24/7 thermal, visual, and acoustic inspection

Open-source general-purpose robots that automate unsafe and repetitive tasks.

An affordable humanoid robot for everyday household chores, priced like an iPhone.

Quantstruct is building hotel housekeeping robots, starting with the linen-folding unit HSK-01, currently a v0.1 operational study.

Rerun is the open-source data layer for physical AI: log, query, visualize, and train on multimodal robotics data in one toolchain.

License the Nuro Driver — an AI-first L4 self-driving system for robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles.

Wayve licenses mapless, end-to-end autonomous driving software and fleet-learned AI for automakers and robotaxi operators.

Programmable open-source robot dogs and cats you build, code, and control — Bittle, Nybble Q, and the Quaddle desk robot.

Build your own open-source quadruped robot dog with TNY-360 — 200 Hz inverse kinematics in a kit you assemble yourself.

Saildrone delivers persistent maritime ISR, undersea detection, and ocean mapping with wind- and solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicles.

Boston Dynamics Spot: a legged inspection robot that automates industrial sensing rounds on stairs, rubble and hazards.

Open-core LiDAR odometry and SLAM for ROS 2, with swappable filters, solvers and loop closure.

Carbon Robotics pairs the LaserWeeder G2 laser weeding machine with Carbon Autonomy retrofit tractor autonomy for large farms.

librealsense is the open-source depth camera SDK for streaming 3D depth, RGB, and IMU data from RealSense stereo cameras

Physical AI infrastructure for automotive, defense, trucking, mining and construction — simulation through Vehicle OS to deployed autonomy.

SharpShooter is a tractor-mounted precision application implement that detects, tracks and aims before it sprays — weeding, thinning and inputs in one pass.

Physical Intelligence builds vision-language-action robot foundation models — one generalist policy, any robot, any task.

Bedrock Ocean sells autonomous AUV seabed surveys with an API-accessible seabed baseline you can diff over time.

AI robotics platform for warehouse and fulfillment automation

6thSense captures tactile sensing and egocentric touch data for training dexterous robot policies

Open source dev kit for AI-native robotics with leader-follower teleoperation.

Locus Robotics automates warehouse fulfillment with AI-driven AMRs, robot-to-goods picking, and the LocusONE orchestration platform.

Open-source Python SDK and CLI for training VLA and SLM robot models in the cloud and deploying them to hardware.

Rhoda AI builds video-predictive robot foundation models that learn industrial manipulation tasks from a handful of human demos.

CARLA is an open-source autonomous driving simulator with a Python API for sensors, traffic, and scenarios.