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Top Robotics Companies: Ranked by What They Have Shipped
Top robotics companies in the HardwareMap index, ranked by shipping evidence, then stage, then disclosed capital. Hub, stage, raise and status for each.
by the HardwareMap editors3 min read
From the HardwareMap index, REV 26.09, refreshed 3 Oct 2026
Contents
The top robotics companies in the HardwareMap index, ranked here, are drawn from 34 robotics entries as of REV 26.09. Ranking rule: shipped product to paying customers first, named paid pilots second, prototypes third; inside each tier, disclosed capital raised breaks ties. Every name links to its datasheet. This list sits under the hardware startups index.
Rows 1 to 12 are tier one, 13 to 17 are tier two, row 18 is tier three. The full robotics category, including agriculture and service robots that did not make the cut, is on the robotics category page.
How we rank the top robotics companies
Most "top robotics companies" lists rank by headlines. This one ranks by evidence a buyer can check.
- Tier one, shipping. A product delivered under a commercial contract, sold at a public price, or listed on an exchange with reported revenue.
- Tier two, paid pilots. A named customer and a site, announced by the customer or the maker.
- Tier three, pre-commercial. Working prototypes, no named paying deployment on the record.
Disclosed capital breaks ties inside a tier. Undisclosed raises sit at the bottom of their tier, not at zero. Where the index has a fact, we use it; where it does not, the field says undisclosed.
Tier one: robotics companies that ship
Logistics dominates the top of the list, because warehouses buy robots on clear payback math.
Agility Robotics (Salem, Oregon) builds Digit, a bipedal humanoid that moves totes. It signed a multi-year robots-as-a-service agreement with GXO Logistics in 2024 (Agility announcement) and runs RoboFab, its own humanoid factory in Salem.
Exotec (Wasquehal, France) sells Skypod, a goods-to-person system where robots climb racks to fetch bins. GreyOrange (Suwanee, Georgia) pairs warehouse robots with fulfillment orchestration software. Locus Robotics (Wilmington, Massachusetts) says its LocusONE platform runs over 17,000 robots across more than 360 sites (Locus Robotics), the largest fleet figure any startup in the index publishes.
Dexterity (Redwood City) builds Mech, a mobile base carrying two industrial arms that load and unload trucks. Unitree Robotics (Hangzhou) sells quadrupeds and humanoids at listed prices and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in August 2026. Standard Bots (Glen Cove, New York) makes AI-controlled industrial arms assembled in the US. Carbon Robotics (Seattle) sells the LaserWeeder, which burns weeds with lasers on vegetable farms.
Further down tier one: ANYbotics (Zurich) with ANYmal legged inspection robots, Chef Robotics (San Francisco) with food-assembly robots sold as a service, and two Chinese makers with undisclosed raises, UBTECH Robotics (listed in Hong Kong) and Pudu Robotics (service robots for restaurants and cleaning).
Tier two: the best-funded robotics companies, still in pilots
The biggest raises in robotics are in humanoids, and most of that money is still ahead of revenue.
Figure AI (San Jose) has the largest disclosed raise in the robotics category. It runs its own Helix vision-language-action model and built Figure 03 for volume production at its BotQ factory. Neura Robotics (Metzingen, Germany) sells cognitive cobot arms and is developing the 4NE1 humanoid. Apptronik (Austin) builds Apollo, with partners including Mercedes-Benz. Collaborative Robotics (Santa Clara) builds the Proxie mobile manipulator. 1X Technologies (Palo Alto) is taking consumer orders for its NEO home humanoid.
Tier three holds Sanctuary AI (Vancouver), which builds the Phoenix humanoid and its control software. The humanoid robots list ranks all humanoid makers with the same rule.
Where the top robotics companies sit in the wider market
Startups are a small share of installed robots. The International Federation of Robotics counted 5 million industrial robots operating in factories worldwide in 2025, with more than 600,000 installed that year and China taking 59% of installations (IFR, 24 Sep 2026). Almost all of those are arms from incumbents such as Fanuc, Yaskawa and ABB, which a startup index does not list.
That is why tier one skews toward logistics: warehouses are where new entrants have taken share. For factory arms, cells and automation, see industrial robotics companies. For earlier-stage names, see robotics startups to watch. For the companies building robot models as much as robot bodies, see AI robotics companies.
Status changes monthly, and so does this ranking. The next REV re-tiers any company that publishes a new deployment.
Frequently asked questions
What are the top robotics companies right now?
By shipping evidence, the leaders in the HardwareMap index are warehouse and logistics makers such as Agility Robotics, Exotec, GreyOrange, Locus Robotics and Dexterity, plus Unitree for research humanoids and quadrupeds. By disclosed capital, Figure AI and Neura Robotics lead, but neither has published a fleet deployment at scale. Which list you trust depends on whether you weight product or money.
What is the largest robotics company in the world?
The largest robot makers are long-established incumbents, such as industrial arm makers Fanuc, Yaskawa and ABB Robotics and surgical robot maker Intuitive. They are decades old and sit outside a startup index. Among startups in the HardwareMap index, Figure AI has the largest disclosed raise and Locus Robotics reports one of the largest deployed fleets.
How does HardwareMap rank robotics companies?
Three tiers. Tier one: a product delivered to paying customers or sold at a public price. Tier two: named paid pilots. Tier three: prototypes and demos. Inside a tier, companies sort by disclosed capital raised, and companies with an undisclosed raise sit at the bottom of their tier. The rule is stated so readers can re-rank with their own weights.
Which robotics companies are public?
In the robotics category of the index, Unitree Robotics (Shanghai STAR Market), UBTECH Robotics (Hong Kong) and Exyn Technologies (Nasdaq) are listed. Agility Robotics has agreed to go public through a SPAC merger that had not closed at the time of writing. Our list of publicly traded robotics companies covers incumbents and tickers in more detail.
Where are most robotics companies based?
The SF Bay Area holds the largest single cluster of robotics companies in the index, followed by a spread across Austin, Philadelphia, Bengaluru, Shenzhen and individual cities in Europe. Robotics is less concentrated than chips or space, because warehouse, farm and factory robots tend to be built near the customers who buy them.
HardwareMap ranks robotics companies by what they ship. Open any company above for its full datasheet, part number and investors.
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