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...
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...
Physical agents for digital infrastructure.
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...
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.
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....
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 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.
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...
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...
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.
Gecko Robotics develops and operates robots to perform infrastructure inspections by climbing into confined and dangerous places.
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.
XYZ Robotics develops AI-powered robotic technologies to transform supply chain automation. We're developing autonomous robotic solutions for put wall sorting and goods-to-person picking. Our robot sorts unorganized, random warehouse goods into groups of customer orders. The solution embodies our strength in deep learning and robotics.
RISE™Robotics helps machinery companies develop motion control solutions that improve machine performance, protect the environment, and improve quality of life. Founded in 2011 by graduates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), RISE™Robotics is a high-growth technology company backed by The Engine, a Tough Tech venture capital fund built by MIT, Greentown Labs, and...
MedAcuity is the go-to Boston-based software development firm for leading MedTech and Robotics companies and innovators, large and small. Founded in 2007 by a team of seasoned software engineers, MedAcuity is ISO 13485:2016 certified and has over a decade of experience delivering FDA Class I, II, III and PMA medical device systems. Working at the intersection of technology and innovation,...
We are building tools for modern forestry management, for timber, carbon, biodiversity, and wildfire risk.
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...
Ava Robotics is a robotics technology company that designs and builds intelligent robots for the workplace. Delivering on a vision of robots working with and for people, Ava's technology emphasizes user experience, safety and autonomous mobility to empower people, while advancing business operations and access. Learn more at www.avarobotics.com.
Barrett Technology is the pioneer in robots that work hand-in-hand with people. Barrett’s robots, such as WAM® and BURT®, operate on Barrett’s novel gearless mechanisms, driven by its world-class Puck® motor controllers, and accessed through its open-source software. Barrett is credited as maker of the world’s “most advanced robotic arm” in the special Millennium Edition of the Guinness Book of World...

































