Company directory
Palo Alto, US
1X stands out because it is combining humanoid hardware, home deployment ambitions, and a growing in-house AI stack instead of treating robotics as hardware alone.
Salem, US
Agility Robotics is among the most commercially advanced humanoid companies, with operating deployments, fleet software, and contracted orders.
Costa Mesa, US
Anduril matters because it is one of the clearest real-world AI deployment companies, pairing autonomy software with vertically integrated defense hardware.
Austin, US
Apptronik is a leading U.S. humanoid company combining robot hardware, data collection, AI training, manufacturing partners, and customer deployments.
Waltham, US
Boston Dynamics belongs on the map because physical AI is not only a startup story; it already has durable industrial deployment leaders.
Redwood City, US
DYNA combines robot learning with hardware and real-world deployments. Its production accounts support an early commercial stage, while the company itself cautions that repeatable deployment at scale remains unproven.
Irvine, US
Field AI focuses on the autonomy layer rather than a single robot body, which makes its software relevant across multiple industrial form factors.
Sunnyvale, US
Figure is one of the clearest attempts to merge humanoid hardware, embodied models, and industrial deployment into one vertically integrated robotics company.
London, UK
Generalist AI is a focused embodied-intelligence lab pursuing scaling laws and general-purpose models for physical skill learning.
San Francisco, US
Gritt applies physical AI to outdoor construction, using adaptable robotic attachments on familiar jobsite equipment rather than requiring contractors to replace their fleets.
Dubai, AE
LEAP 71 belongs on the map if physical AI includes the upstream design stack for real-world machines, not just robots and autonomy systems.
San Francisco, US
Builds robotic clusters that automate biologics manufacturing within pharmaceutical facilities; it manufactures therapies rather than discovering drugs.
Metzingen, Germany
NEURA Robotics is a significant European robotics platform attempting to unify perception, safety, and cognitive capabilities across multiple robot forms.
Santa Clara, US
Nvidia belongs on the map as more than a chip company because it increasingly ships the reference stack for model serving, robotics, and enterprise AI deployment.
San Francisco, US
Origin qualifies through an internally developed construction action model and deployed OG-1 robots, with the October announcement distinguishing active wall finishing from future trade expansion.
San Francisco, US
Physical Intelligence is one of the clearest examples of frontier model thinking moving into robotics, with a thesis centered on transferable skills across hardware.
Shenzhen, China
Pudu brings a large installed base of commercial robots to the physical-AI race, giving its model program real-world deployment data.
Milpitas, US
RoboForce is an emerging physical-AI company connecting its own robot hardware with general-purpose embodied intelligence.
Vancouver, Canada
Sanctuary AI pairs a long-running humanoid program with a broader strategy to deploy its physical intelligence on existing industrial robot hardware.
San Diego, US
Shield AI is one of the clearest examples of real-world AI deployment in defense autonomy, pairing hardware systems with its Hivemind autonomy stack.
Pittsburgh, US
Skild AI is chasing a shared robot-brain thesis, arguing that one adaptable model layer can generalize across many physical embodiments and deployment environments.
Redwood City, US
Sunday builds home robotics hardware and learning systems together. Its March financing announcement targeted a fall 2026 home beta; that schedule is not confirmation of a broad commercial rollout.
Austin, US
Tesla is a major physical-AI company because it combines real-world fleet data, large-scale training, custom inference hardware, autonomy, and humanoid robotics.
Hangzhou, China
Unitree is important because it combines aggressive product cadence, broad visibility, and real retail availability in legged and humanoid robotics.
Toronto, Canada
Waabi stands out because it combines frontier AI talent with a simulation-first autonomy strategy aimed squarely at commercial trucking.
Mountain View, US
Waymo is the clearest example that physical AI already has real deployment at scale, not just prototypes and demos.
San Francisco, US
World Labs is one of the most visible spatial-intelligence companies, aiming to build models that can perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world instead of operating only over text or flat media.
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