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Robotics Companies in the Bay Area (9 in the Index)
Robotics companies Bay Area-based in the HardwareMap index: humanoids, warehouse robots and food automation, with stage, disclosed raise and status.
by the HardwareMap editors3 min read
From the HardwareMap index, REV 26.09, refreshed 3 Oct 2026
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Searching for robotics companies Bay Area-wide? The HardwareMap index lists 9 robotics companies headquartered in the SF Bay Area as of REV 26.09, from Series A to over $1.8 billion raised. They build humanoids, warehouse robots, inventory drones and food-line robots. Ranking rule: disclosed capital raised. The national view is the top robotics companies list.
The table is live from the index. For every Bay Area robotics entry with current filters, open the Bay Area robotics filter in the directory.
How the Bay Area robotics list is built
A company makes this list when three things hold. Its index category is robotics. Its headquarters city falls inside the SF Bay Area metro, which the index defines as a fixed set of cities from San Francisco and Oakland down to San Jose and Fremont. And it has a public product, a public source and an operating team. Robotics teams inside larger companies, such as Google's or Amazon's, are not startups and are left out.
The table sorts by disclosed capital raised. That is a ranking rule, not a quality score: it tells you who can afford a long sales cycle, not whose robot works best. "Raised" means disclosed equity rounds only; where a stage is blank, the round name is not public.
What the 9 entries share, as of REV 26.09:
- All private. None of the Bay Area robotics entries is listed or acquired.
- Young. Founding years run from 2014 (1X, as Halodi) to 2022 (Figure, Mytra, Collaborative Robotics).
- Industrial buyers first. Seven of the nine sell to warehouses, factories or food plants. Only 1X sells to households, and Figure targets both.
- Mid-size teams. Headcount runs from about 40 to just over 1,000, with most between 140 and 210.
Humanoid robots: Figure AI and 1X
Two of the best-funded humanoid makers in the world sit 20 miles apart. Figure AI (San Jose, founded 2022) builds general-purpose humanoids driven by its Helix vision-language-action model. Figure 03 was designed for high-volume production at its BotQ factory. On 30 June 2026 it started work at BMW Plant Spartanburg, sequencing parts in the assembly and logistics hall (Figure).
1X Technologies (Palo Alto) started in Norway in 2014 as Halodi Robotics. Its NEO uses tendon-driven actuators and a padded body for safe work around people, and it takes consumer orders for home use. In April 2026 it opened a 58,000 sq ft NEO factory in Hayward, in the East Bay (1X). The humanoid robot companies list ranks both against the rest of the field.
Warehouse and logistics robots
Logistics is the largest group. Dexterity (Redwood City) builds Mech, a mobile base carrying two industrial arms that load and unload trucks and palletize boxes, lifting up to 60 kg combined. It reports more than 100 million autonomous actions in production. Mytra (Brisbane, founded 2022 by former Tesla and Rivian engineers) builds a modular steel storage grid where robots move full pallets, a load most automated storage avoids.
Collaborative Robotics (Santa Clara) makes Proxie, a mobile manipulator for logistics, manufacturing and healthcare; it raised a $100 million Series B in April 2024. Corvus Robotics (Mountain View) flies Corvus One drones that scan warehouse inventory with no added infrastructure. Cartken (Oakland) builds Hauler robots for sidewalks and factory sites; a Mitsubishi Electric affiliate ordered nearly 100 of them.
Food automation
Chef Robotics (San Francisco) builds robots that portion and assemble meals for food manufacturers, running on its ChefOS software. Its robot module carries NSF/ANSI 169 certification, and it raised a $43.1 million round in 2025. It sells as robotics-as-a-service: the manufacturer pays for output, not the arm.
Other robotics companies Bay Area buyers know
The index files some robot builders under other categories, by what they sell. Bright Machines (San Francisco) builds robotic cells for electronics assembly and Dusty Robotics (Mountain View) drives a layout robot across concrete slabs printing floor plans; both sit in industrial. Zipline (South San Francisco) flies delivery drones and Waymo (Mountain View) runs robotaxis; both are in mobility. Skydio (San Mateo) builds autonomous drones under defense. Add those and the Bay Area's robotics count roughly doubles. The full Bay Area hardware list, across all ten categories, is on hardware startups in the SF Bay Area. Earlier-stage teams are on the robotics startups list.
Frequently asked questions
How many robotics companies are in the Bay Area?
The HardwareMap index lists 9 robotics companies headquartered in the SF Bay Area as of REV 26.09, out of 49 Bay Area hardware entries. Wider counts run into the hundreds once software-only robotics firms, research labs and divisions of large companies are included. The index lists a company only when it builds hardware, has a public product page and an operating team.
Which Bay Area robotics company has raised the most?
Figure AI in San Jose, with about $1.85 billion in disclosed funding as of REV 26.09. Dexterity in Redwood City and Mytra in Brisbane follow at about $291 million and $198 million. Raised means disclosed equity rounds only. Waymo and Zipline have raised more but are filed under mobility, not robotics.
Where in the Bay Area are robotics companies based?
Across the Peninsula and South Bay more than in San Francisco itself. The 9 robotics entries sit in San Jose, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Brisbane, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Oakland and San Francisco. Space for test floors and proximity to suppliers in the South Bay matter more for robots than for software teams.
Are Bay Area robotics companies hiring?
Most of the companies on this list are growing, and team sizes in the index run from about 40 people at Cartken and Corvus Robotics to more than 1,000 at 1X. Open roles change weekly, so check each company's careers page from its datasheet. Our hardware startup jobs note covers how to find roles across the index.
HardwareMap catalogues every Bay Area robot maker that meets the bar. Open any company above for its datasheet: stage, disclosed raise, team and status.
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