Top Massachusetts Robotics Startups (45)

Boston-based company Piaggio Fast Forward Inc. (PFF) was founded in 2015 by the Piaggio Group (the Italian manufacturer that created the iconic Vespa scooter). In order to bring products to market today, PFF is solving the problem of robotic interaction with people in dynamically changing environments. We’re innovators, neighbors and creators with a passion for local living and pushing the...

Our mission is to unlock large-scale exploration & defense of the ocean by making it radically easier to build mission-capable ocean robots. The ocean is earth's final frontier, and there is immense strategic value in our nation's ability to effectively explore & defend the ocean. Unmanned systems promise to unlock new access to the ocean, but they were previously too...

Physical agents for digital infrastructure.

We believe the best working experience is one where machines do the heavy lifting and people do the problem solving. Our robots work with people in the messy world of warehouse loading docks, reducing the real physical pain of unloading trucks and containers radically amplifying what each person can accomplish. Founded by an exceptional cast of robotics and machine learning...

Each year, billions are spent on pesticides and fertilizers, yet most never reach the crops - resulting in costly waste and significant environmental harm. We’re changing that. By using machine learning, computer vision, and fluid dynamics, AgZen optimizes chemical application in real time, reducing input use, minimizing pollution, and protecting both yields and ecosystems. Founded out of MIT and backed by...

Boston Engineering provides product design and engineering consulting from concept development through connected product capabilities. The company specializes in solving complex challenges in defense & security, medical devices, robotics, and commercial industries. Boston Engineering is also a PTC Platinum Partner, a ThingWorx internet of things (IoT) partner, and an Ansys reseller. Founded in 1995, Boston Engineering is certified to ISO...

Oxipital AI is a leader in AI-enabled machine vision technologies for robotic process automation and product inspection in critical industries such as food processing, agriculture, and consumer goods production. The company’s mission is to deliver actionable insights through deep object understanding, to customers, as they embrace Industry 5.0 and to unlock previously unachievable levels of resiliency, efficiency, and sustainability in...

We are building tools for modern forestry management, for timber, carbon, biodiversity, and wildfire risk.

CRABI – the Crud Removal Autonomous Brushing Instrument – is a fully autonomous marine robotic system designed to conduct in-transit cleaning of marine vessels, removing biofouling. By cleaning hulls continuously, CRABI guarantees optimum fuel efficiency and coating performance. CRABI is rapidly installable and configurable for all vessels, ready for use without drydock time or significant modifications. We are now looking for both...

We are on a mission to unlock climate-friendly housing as a basic human right. To achieve that mission, we're developing low-cost robotic microfactories to build and retrofit net-zero homes 2x faster, 2x cheaper and with 10x lower carbon.

Dephy is a robotics startup founded in 2016 with the primary mission of bringing humans Beyond Nature™ with performance enhancing wearable robotics technologies. We utilize a practical, hands-on approach to design, build, evaluate and commercialize the world’s most advanced exoskeletons for human augmentation. We are active in the military, academic, business, medical and consumer market.

Wearable robotics for hardworking humans: Verve has brought to market a lightweight, one-size fits most wearable that powers and protects workers all day long, so they can have safer work days and more restful nights.

10Beauty, located in Burlington, MA, is building the definitive Intelligent Beauty company, leveraging robotics and automation to reimagine how people can interact with machines on a service level. We are about to close on a $20M Series B round of funding (total funding of $40M), to launch the world’s first full manicure machine next year, having already pre-sold over $13M...

Perceptive Automata is solving what is often described as the hardest of the hard problems for automated driving: human behavior prediction technology for the safe large-scale rollout of highly automated and autonomous vehicles, especially in urban areas.

OnPoint Surgical is revolutionizing orthopedic and neurosurgical spinal procedures with an Augmented Reality (AR) platform technology that superimposes virtual surgical guides and virtual spinal implants onto the surgeon’s visual field using see-through optical head-mounted displays. The technology offers many unique clinical and intra-operative benefits including intuitive use, improved hand-eye coordination, and impressive accuracy with the potential for better clinical outcomes.

Direct Machines is an industrial ecommerce retailer of manufacturing machinery. We supply hobbyists, small businesses and large-scale production facilities with the tools, equipment and machinery they need to facilitate a manufacturing floor.

Realtime has invented a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds, enabling robots to function in unstructured, collaborative work-spaces, reacting to other motions as soon as they are perceived

At Saturday Robotics, we’re building autonomous solutions to tame the chaos of daily life — and to meaningfully lighten our load on the planet together. Join us as we gear up to launch out of stealth mode!

BIONIK empowers the world’s leading rehabilitation teams with data-driven, robotic therapy solutions that transform the neurorecovery journey to harness hope and provide proven, better outcomes.

Ondas Holdings (NASDAQ: ONDS) is a leading developer of enterprise autonomous systems. Our products digitize industrial operations through autonomous drones, wireless networks, data, and AI. Subsidiary companies include Ondas Networks, American Robotics, Airobotics, Iron Drone, Ardenna. Ondas companies have offices in Waltham, MA, Sunnyvale, CA, and Petah Tikva, Israel.