Alternatives to Lightwheel
The top Robotics companies similar to Lightwheel, ranked by relevance (named competitors first, then how closely their sectors overlap) and our 0-100 AI-readiness score. Each links to a full profile with funding and team.
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Covariant61RoboticsEmeryville, United States$80.0MCovariant builds a universal AI platform, the Covariant Brain, to enable robots to see, reason, and act autonomously in dynamic real-world environments like warehouses.
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Applied Intuition64Autonomous VehiclesMountain View, United States$1.2BVehicle intelligence platform accelerating the adoption of safe, AI-driven autonomous machines.
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Revol AI8Artificial IntelligenceRishon LeZion, Israel - Website
Encord59RoboticsLondon, United Kingdom$158.1MA physical AI data infrastructure startup accelerating intelligent robot and drone development.
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Uma58RoboticsParis, France$40.0MDeveloping advanced physical AI and humanoid robots for industrial and domestic environments, focusing on real-world performance and learning through demonstration.
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Persona AI57RoboticsHouston, United States$238.2MDeveloping industrial humanoid robots for physically demanding tasks in shipbuilding, construction, and energy sectors.
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Veeda AI51Artificial IntelligenceToronto, Canada$90.0MDeveloper of multimodal 'world models' for training embodied AI agents in infinitely scalable simulated environments.
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Agile Robots69RoboticsMunich, Germany$1.2BDevelops AI-powered robotic automation solutions for industries, focusing on intelligent, flexible, and adaptive systems.
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Ropedia48Artificial IntelligenceSingapore, Singapore$22.0MHuman-centric data collection for embodied AI, providing real-world, multimodal interaction data to fuel AI robotics models.
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Mind Robotics64RoboticsPalo Alto, United States$1.0BBuilding AI-enabled robotic systems at industrial scale using Physical AI and real manufacturing data
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Physical AI for warehouses and manufacturing.
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Galaxea60RoboticsTokyo, Japan$589.6MDeveloping full-stack embodied AI systems, including humanoid robots and foundational AI models for versatile automation.
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1X Technologies60RoboticsPalo Alto, United States$233.5MDeveloping general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments, focusing on safety and affordability.
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Apptronik59RoboticsAustin, United States$1.6BHumanoid robot startup building robots for tasks like unloading trailers and picking warehouse inventory.
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Intrinsic59RoboticsMountain View, USA$136.4MRobotics software company building AI models to make industrial robots more accessible.
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Kinova Robotics59RoboticsBoisbriand, Canada$151.0MDevelops advanced robotic arms for assistive, medical, industrial, and research applications.
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Fort Robotics58RoboticsPhiladelphia, United States$13.0MFORT Robotics develops safety and control systems for robots and autonomous machines, providing a trust layer for physical AI.
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DYNA57RoboticsRedwood City, United States$155.5MBuilds intelligent, scalable robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model.
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Walden Robotics57RoboticsCambridge, USA$300.0MBuilding and deploying general-purpose robots that continuously learn and improve while performing real work.
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Figure57RoboticsSunnyvale, United States$4.0BBuilding humanoid robots for commercial work, currently deployed at scale with BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Amazon.
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Linkerbot develops highly dexterous robotic hands for humanoid robots and industrial applications.
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Ouster55RoboticsSan Francisco, United States$100.0MOuster is a lidar manufacturer that has acquired StereoLabs, specializing in vision-based perception systems, to create a unified sensing and perception platform for advanced physical AI systems.
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Robot Era54RoboticsBeijing, China$145.0MBeijing-based humanoid robotics company building full-stack embodied intelligence, first humanoid to climb the Great Wall.
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RobCo54RoboticsMunich, Germany$113.0MAI-driven robotics company scaling its autonomous industrial robotics platform.
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Icarus54RoboticsBrooklyn, United States$6.1MDeveloping a robotic labor force for space operations, starting with the ISS.
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Autonomous robotics startup known for its stair-climbing delivery robot.
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MagicLab52RoboticsWuxi, China$89.1MDevelops general-purpose humanoid and quadruped robots powered by embodied AI.
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Pollen Robotics52RoboticsParis, France$2.6MPioneering accessible, open-source physical robots and AI-powered application development.
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Cortex AI52RoboticsSan Francisco, United States$3.5MBuilds real-world robot and egocentric datasets for embodied AI training and evaluation.
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RoboForce51RoboticsMilpitas, United States$67.0MDeveloping physical AI robots for industrial labor to automate dull, dirty, and dangerous work.
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Mirai Robotics51RoboticsPuglia, Italy$4.1MBuilding autonomous systems and information intelligence platforms for maritime operations
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Bellboy Robotics50RoboticsTel Aviv, Israel$12.0MComputer vision and embodied AI for advanced robotics applications.
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Cerulion48RoboticsSan Francisco, USA$500KOpen-source robot middleware and operating system to accelerate robot development and deployment.
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FLEXOO47RoboticsMunich, Germany$11.9MFLEXOO develops physical AI for industrial applications, including highly flexible robotic components for space exploration.
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Trener Robotics47RoboticsOslo, Norway$26.0MIndustrial AI automation for robotics.
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Foretellix65AutomotiveTel Aviv, Israel$133.0MVerification and validation platform for mass deployment of autonomous driving systems.
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Develops generative universal embodied brains for robotics, specializing in embodied AI.
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Acumino44RoboticsAthens, Greece$11.7MBuilds hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous tasks in industrial automation.
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Anvil Robotics43RoboticsSan Francisco, United States$6.5MComposable Physical AI hardware platform, "Legos for Robots", ready-to-go devkits for physical AI teams.
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Archetype43RoboticsSan Francisco, United States$126.5M - Website
MicroAGI61Artificial IntelligenceBerlin, Germany$55.0MAccelerating embodied AI through data collection via free home cleaning services.
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Datacurve59Foundation ModelSan Francisco, United States$17.7MProvides expert-quality code data for training and evaluating frontier LLMs.
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Worldmodeldata49Artificial IntelligenceCambridge, United Kingdom$9.0MBuilding a database of video game-generated training data for AI world models.
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Wandelbots53RoboticsDresden, GermanySoftware platform for industrial robot automation and orchestration, enabling no-code robot programming.
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Bespoke Labs builds environments for training and evaluating AI agents.
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Ambi Robotics49RoboticsFremont, United StatesAmbi Robotics licenses its AI-powered robot skills for warehouse automation.
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Google DeepMind83Frontier AI LabLondon, United Kingdom$676.7MPioneering AI research and development to solve intelligence and advance science for humanity.
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NVIDIA Corp83Professional VisualizationSanta Clara, United States$4.1BGlobal technology company renowned for its GPUs, SoCs, and APIs, driving advancements in AI, gaming, and high-performance computing.
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The Inspect Evals for robotics: a curated catalog of physical-AI benchmarks built on Inspect Robots.
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Genesi AI7RoboticsPalo Alto, United StatesA robotics company developing a universal robotics foundation model and full-stack platform for general-purpose robots.
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Infrastructure for physical AI.
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Huzzle Labs41Frontier AI LabLondon, United Kingdom$6.0MHuzzle Labs is an applied AI lab building long-horizon RL environments, expert trajectory data, and contextual evaluations for frontier AI labs and regulated European enterprises.
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Asimov43RoboticsSan Francisco, United StatesCrowdsourcing training data for humanoid robots from real-world human demonstrations.
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Spatial AI42RoboticsSan Francisco, United StatesBuilding the data infrastructure for robots, enabling large-scale real-world data for embodied agents.
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ironSource76AdvertisingSan Francisco, United States$505.0MUnity is a leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D content, empowering developers across gaming, film, automotive, and architecture.
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AI-driven simulation and testing for autonomous systems.
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Prometheus AI73Frontier AI LabSan Francisco, United States$6.2BJeff Bezos-backed AI startup building physical AI systems for engineering and manufacturing.
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Snorkel AI70Data Layer for Specialized AIRedwood City, United States$200.0MData-centric AI platform for building and deploying specialized AI models.
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