Top Massachusetts Robotics Startups (47)

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...

We are building intelligence for the physical world in its native language: force. Until now, robotics required choosing: generality or performance. Our Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model changes that. This new foundation unites generality, performance, and safety, pushing robots beyond human limits and into everyone's hands.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gecko Robotics develops and operates robots to perform infrastructure inspections by climbing into confined and dangerous places.

Charles River Analytics conducts leading-edge AI, robotics, and human-machine interface R&D and leverages that R&D to create custom solutions. We bring foundational research to life, creating human-centered intelligent systems at the edge of what’s possible, through deep partnerships with our customers. We hire and nurture smart people so they can solve hard problems at the intersection of human and machine intelligence....

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.

Physical agents for digital infrastructure.

Multiply Labs develops advanced robotic systems that manufacture individualized drugs at scale. Our products are enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. Multiply Labs has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in San Francisco.

ePropelled designs and manufactures integrated electric propulsion solutions for uncrewed vehicles, including intelligent motors, generators, motor controllers, starter-generators, power-management systems, and connected software. Its technologies support UAVs, UGVs, USVs, and other autonomous platforms across aerospace, defense, robotics, marine, agricultural, logistics, and industrial applications. The company combines efficient hardware, battery intelligence, autonomous decision-making, and system-level integration to improve range, reliability, monitoring,...

Founded in 2001, Energid brings its NASA engineering roots to provide highly sophisticated motion control for industrial, medical, commercial, collaborative, and consumer robotic systems. Energid provides the industry’s premier commercial software development kit (SDK) and tasking framework that supports real-time, adaptive motion control. For developers of robotic systems in dynamic environments, on moving platforms, using multiple arms or manipulators, or...

Soft Robotics is an industry-leading and award-winning technology company that designs and builds automated picking solutions for the food processing industry using proprietary soft robotic grippers, 3D machine perception, and mGripAI™ artificial intelligence. The company’s transformational robotic automation solutions enable machine builders to solve the hardest piece picking problems in food processing.

Humanity wastes or burns $50B of recyclable plastics each year. This adds to the 50 trillion particles of microplastics in our environment, generates toxic methane gas and PFAS runoff, and emits millions of tons of greenhouse gasses. Recycling isn’t profitable today because individuals do a poor job of separating trash, recyclables, and compostables accurately. It’s not their fault; the rules...

Robots are powering the next innovation surge in Industry. Harvest Automation is a material handling company that develops and manufactures robots to address some of the most challenging issues facing the world. Backed by a team of world-class robotics innovators, Harvest Automation has released the first flexible, scalable robots for Agriculture and Distribution & Fulfillment. Harvest enables operators to create...

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.