Robotics companies worth tracking

A benchmark robotics company known for dynamic mobility, now positioning Atlas for industrial automation while continuing commercial work with Spot and Stretch.

Figure builds humanoid robots around its Helix vision-language-action system, targeting home, logistics and high-volume manufacturing.

Agility Robotics focuses Digit on practical logistics work, especially tote handling and integration with warehouse operations.

Unitree is known for relatively accessible quadrupeds and increasingly visible humanoids, spanning consumer, research and industrial use.

Apptronik builds Apollo, a modular commercial humanoid designed for warehouses, manufacturing and later broader physical work.

1X develops humanoids for everyday environments, moving from the wheeled EVE platform to the bipedal NEO home robot.

Sanctuary AI builds Phoenix humanoid robots and the Carbon control system for industrial-grade general-purpose work.

UBTECH is a Hong Kong-listed Chinese robotics company pushing Walker humanoids into industrial manufacturing and service scenarios.

ANYbotics builds ANYmal quadrupeds for autonomous industrial inspection in harsh environments such as oil, gas, chemicals and utilities.

Covariant developed AI robotics software for warehouse picking and introduced RFM-1 as a robotics foundation model. In 2024, Amazon licensed its models and hired its founding team.

Tesla is developing Optimus, a general-purpose humanoid robot leveraging its FSD AI stack, with over 1,000 units deployed in its own factories by early 2026.

Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose foundation models (π0) that can control any robot to do any task, bridging large-scale AI with physical manipulation.