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Focus: Humanoid
Advanced robots for mobility and disaster response.
Year Founded: 2012
Funding Stage: Series B
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Focus: Industrial
Flexible robotics for high-precision assembly lines.
Year Founded: 2015
Funding Stage: Seed
Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea
Focus: Educational, Research, Humanoid
ROBOTIS is known for its Dynamixel servos and humanoid platforms (ROBOTIS OP, THORMANG) used in RoboCup, STEM education, and advanced bipedal research.
Year Founded: 1999
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Hong Kong, China
Focus: Humanoid, Social
Hanson is known for lifelike humanoid robots (Sophia) with advanced facial expressions, fostering AI ethics discussions and social engagement.
Year Founded: 2007
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Seville, Spain
Focus: Hospitality, Service
Macco develops humanoid robots (KIME, etc.) for food & beverage automation, acting as chefs, bartenders, and waiters in hospitality.
Year Founded: 2013
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
Focus: Bipedal, Service, Social
UBTECH integrates humanoid robots into homes and businesses, focusing on bipedal service robots (like Walker) with AI-driven social interaction.
Year Founded: 2012
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Focus: Humanoid Research, Telepresence
Honda pioneered bipedal robotics with ASIMO, focusing on advanced locomotion and future telepresence robots for hazardous or distant environments.
Year Founded: None
Funding Stage: Public (NYSE: HMC)
Headquarters: Hangzhou, China
Focus: Quadruped, Humanoid (in development)
Unitree, known for agile quadruped robots, is expanding into humanoids (H1), focusing on high-speed walking and dynamic balance for future logistics tasks.
Year Founded: 2017
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Daejeon, South Korea
Focus: Humanoid, Research
Rainbow Robotics (a KAIST Hubo Lab spin-off) commercializes HUBO humanoids known for advanced walking, manipulation, and competition use (DARPA Robotics Challenge).
Year Founded: 2011
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA
Focus: Healthcare, Service
Diligent Robotics builds socially aware service robots (like Moxi) that handle hospital logistics tasks, freeing clinical staff for patient care.
Year Founded: 2017
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Focus: Humanoid, Collaborative Manufacturing
Kawada RoboticsÆ Nextage robot offers dual-arm, humanoid-inspired capabilities for factory floors, enabling safe, human-friendly automation of assembly tasks.
Year Founded: 2013
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, USA
Focus: Telepresence, AI learning
Beyond ImaginationÆs Beomni is a humanoid robot initially controlled by telepresence, gradually learning to perform tasks autonomously in healthcare, manufacturing, and farming.
Year Founded: 2018
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Focus: General-purpose humanoids
Sanctuary AI develops Phoenix robots with advanced AI and tactile feedback, aiming to quickly learn and perform diverse human tasks across multiple industries.
Year Founded: 2018
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
Focus: Service, Security, Home
QihanÆs Sanbot robots are cloud-connected, AI-driven humanoids for retail, hospitality, security, and home environments, focusing on interactive assistance.
Year Founded: 2006
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Perm, Russia
Focus: Service, Customer Interaction
Promobot creates humanoid service robots for receptionist duties, document processing, and health checks, emphasizing interactive customer engagement.
Year Founded: 2015
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA
Focus: Humanoid, Industrial
Tesla, known for EVs and AI-driven autonomy, is developing the Optimus (Tesla Bot) humanoid for repetitive, hazardous, or otherwise unappealing tasks.
Year Founded: 2003
Funding Stage: Public (NASDAQ: TSLA)
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Focus: Humanoid, Social
SoftBank Robotics is known for creating social robots (Pepper, NAO) with interactive, human-like communication for retail, hospitality, and education.
Year Founded: 2005
Funding Stage: Owned by SoftBank
Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain
Focus: Humanoid, Service, Research
PAL Robotics develops bipedal robots (TALOS) and service platforms (TIAGo, ARI), aiming to assist in industry, research, and public engagement.
Year Founded: 2004
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK
Focus: Entertainment, Lifelike Humanoid
Engineered Arts creates ultra-realistic humanoid robots (Ameca, RoboThespian) for interactive displays, showcasing advanced facial expressions and human-robot interaction.
Year Founded: 2004
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA
Focus: Humanoid, Industrial
Apptronik, a spin-off from NASA research, creates versatile humanoid robots (Apollo) for logistics and assembly, focusing on safe human-robot collaboration.
Year Founded: 2016
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Moss, Norway
Focus: Humanoid, Security, Service
1X focuses on building safe humanoid robots (EVE, NEO) for routine tasks, emphasizing gentle operation around people.
Year Founded: 2014
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland
Focus: Medical
Neuro-controlled robotics for medical assistance.
Year Founded: 2018
Funding Stage: Series A
Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea
Focus: Educational, Research, Humanoid
ROBOTIS is known for Dynamixel servos and humanoid platforms (ROBOTIS OP, THORMANG) used in RoboCup, STEM education, and advanced bipedal research.
Year Founded: 1999
Funding Stage: Private
Headquarters: Los Altos, California, USA
Focus: Humanoid Research, Telepresence
TRI is ToyotaÆs advanced AI and robotics division, focusing on augmenting human capabilities. Their T-HR3 humanoid is teleoperated for use in dangerous or distant environments.
Year Founded: 2016
Funding Stage: Private (subsidiary of Toyota)