Alternatives to Applied Intuition

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

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

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

Ambi Robotics builds AI-powered robotic parcel sorting and stacking systems run on the AmbiOS physical AI platform.

Archetype AI's Newton physical world model turns sensor, video, and telemetry data into real-time physical AI insights for industrial

Degla's Tanit VTOL drone runs natural-language missions through SkyCommander autonomous flight control.

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

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

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

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

Autonomous drone mustering and aerial pasture monitoring for rotational cattle grazing

Twolabs builds verifiable reinforcement-learning environments for robotics, PCB design and embedded systems post-training.

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

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

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

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

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

Skild AI is building an omni-bodied robotic brain intended to control any robot for any physical task.

Applied AI research for physical systems — power transformer design, autonomous counter-UAS, and dexterous robot manipulation.

Shield AI's Hivemind delivers military aircraft autonomy that keeps flying when GPS and comms fail.

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

Euclid brings raw high-resolution radar and its generative digital-twin into autonomous driving training and simulation.

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.

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

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

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.