Top Industrial Automation Startups in 2027

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HAX is an SOSV program for hard-tech startups transforming industry. HAX started in 2012 with the goal to provide entrepreneurs with the opportunity to solve the world’s problems through hardware. We’ve spear-headed the hardware renaissance and created the lean hardware movement, which led us to build the world’s largest community of hardware companies with our two-stage programs - Stage I in Shenzhen which helps startups build and ship products, and a Stage II program in San Francisco which is helping them scale worldwide. The 300+ startups HAX invested in have been tackling extremely important world challenges in consumer, health, enterprise and industrial environments, while impacting the world with amazing products such as Particle, Makeblock, Yeelight, Avidbots, Opentrons, Nura, Simbe Robotics, etc... Companies are hailing from the US at 60%, 20% from Europe and 20% from Asia.

Atomic Machines is doing something truly epic: inventing the future of how things are made. And a glorious future it will be. We envision an era of atomically precise manufacturing (APM), in which everything is made by assembling matter at the molecular level, making anything from its digital description, blurring the line between bits and atoms. Our first move on the long journey to this APM future is in the realm of microfabrication, making mechanical devices with features sized in the single-digit microns scale. Our fabrication technology will be full-stack, 100% automated and data-driven, and we’re expanding the engineering team now to take it to commercial reality. We have engineering offices in Berkeley and Santa Clara, CA. We are well funded, and our leadership has a long track record of success. We have successfully developed multiple prototype generations of our first MEMS device and are benefitting directly from the direct-write nature of our fabrication technology, going from bits to atoms in hours, not months or years.

InBolt is developing a state of the art tracking technology based on computer vision. Our first application is for the tracking of hand-held tools (drills, torque wrenches, etc.) in the industry (space, aerospace, rail and automotive) to guarantee the quality of manual operations in real time. We are a young startup of 4 (3 founders and a software engineer). We are incubated at Agoranov in Paris and HAX (the world's best hardware accelerator) in Shenzhen. We work with the top space companies and we are in discussions with dozens of industrials in aerospace, rail, automotive and oil&gas like Airbus, Safran, ArianeGroup, SKF, KUKA, Liebherr, etc. We are currently experiencing great traction and want to strongly accelerate the technological developments.

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