Alternatives to Verdant Robotics

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

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.

librealsense is the 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, mining and construction — simulation through Vehicle OS to deployed autonomy.

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.

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.

1X Technologies takes home humanoid robots to consumers — reserve NEO with a $200 deposit.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.