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

Open-source data layer for Physical AI: log, query, transform, visualize, and train on multimodal robotics data in one toolchain.

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

Agility Robotics builds Digit, a bipedal humanoid for tote moving and unloading, run as a fleet through the Arc cloud platform.

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

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

MRPT: open-source C++ libraries and Python bindings for SLAM, 3D vision, and sensor fusion in robotics.

Twolabs builds post-training environments and datasets for robotics, PCB design, and embedded systems.

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

Wayve AI Driver is mapless, vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving software that scales L2 to L4 autonomy.

Build and program an open-source robot dog with a 200 Hz inverse kinematics control loop and a fully hackable hardware stack.

Wind- and solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicles delivering persistent maritime ISR, undersea detection, and ocean mapping as a fully managed service.

Boston Dynamics Spot is a four-legged mobile inspection robot that climbs stairs, crosses rubble and carries sensor payloads into hazardous industrial sites.

Open-core LiDAR SLAM for ROS 2: LiDAR odometry, LIO, 3D SLAM and georeferencing you can modify at the source level.

Open-source depth camera SDK for streaming 3D depth, RGB, and IMU data from RealSense stereo cameras

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

Physical AI infrastructure for automotive, defense, trucking and mining — simulation, Vehicle OS, and self-driving stacks in one platform.

SharpShooter is tractor-mounted precision application that aims before it applies — weeding, thinning, and inputs in one pass.

Physical Intelligence builds vision-language-action robot foundation models that let one generalist policy control any robot for any

Reserve the NEO home humanoid robot from 1X Technologies with a $200 refundable deposit.

Build, code, and program OpenCat quadruped robot kits — Bittle, Nybble Q, and the new Quaddle desk robot dog.

Open-source Python SDK and CLI for training and deploying physical AI models — VLA and SLM — from managed cloud compute to real robot hardware.

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

Rhoda AI builds video-predictive robot foundation models for heavy industrial manipulation, learned from a handful of human demos.

Bedrock Ocean runs autonomous AUV seabed surveys and delivers a maintained, API-accessible seabed baseline you can diff over time.

Open-source autonomous driving simulator with a Python API, ROS2 support, and Unreal Engine 5.5 rendering.

General Instinct compresses VLM and world-action models and runs them on robots and edge silicon with a single inference runtime.

Shield AI builds Hivemind AI pilot autonomy for military aircraft that keep flying when GPS and comms fail.

Applied AI research for the physical world: transformer design, autonomous counter-UAS, and dexterous manipulation.

Archetype AI's Newton physical world model turns raw sensor, video, and telemetry data into real-time operational intelligence.