Top Robotics Startups in 2027

Elroy Air is enabling autonomous air transport anywhere. We are developing autonomous aircraft systems to deliver goods to the world’s most remote places. Building on the powertrain and perception technology enabling the hybrid-electric/autonomous vehicle revolution, our vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) cargo transport system can operate outside of airport infrastructure and carries 200+ lbs over 300 miles. Immediate aid and relief in disaster and firefighting situations, commercial cargo by air to expand delivery options, and rapid autonomous resupply for troops in the field. Our flight and ground operations make Elroy Air's vehicles a safe, reliable, efficient way to transport cargo by air.

Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease. Neuralink was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and the company is headquartered in Fremont, CA with a second location opening in Austin, TX.

Realtime Robotics has developed a simple, extensible platform for automation. The platform has interlocking features that, when combined, enable customers and system integrators to apply flexible robot control technology to vastly broader applications. Realtime’s technology is a combination of proprietary software and hardware that enables real-time motion planning. Our core collision-free motion planning platform is versatile and continuously accommodates changes occurring in a workcell. This allows users to operate single or multiple robots safely at full speed in unstructured and uncaged environments. The combined features in our platform empower robots to function seamlessly across many deployments with minimal programming and reprogramming during implementation.

GrayMatter Robotics is an AI-Robotics company delivering smart robotic assistants for tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks. We bundle our AI software with off-the-shelf robots, sensors, and tools and provide application-specific turnkey solutions to customers in Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) format. We are helping manufacturers improve the quality of life of shop floor workers, enhance the production capacity, and reduce scrap, repair, and rework costs. Within a short time of incorporation, we have been awarded the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award. This prestigious award is given to the most creative and influential innovations worldwide that have advanced the state of robotics. We are well-capitalized and have tremendous customer traction (including Fortune 100 companies). We are quadrupling our brilliant team in the coming months to meet the customer demands, expand our operations, and build the next-generation AI-Robotic solutions.

Flux is building physical AI to automate material movement in warehouses and factories on legacy vehicle fleets. Using Flux's solutions customers can reduce their dependency on human drivers, while also increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. Flux is currently deploying with customers like Walmart, Daimler, Bajaj, Cummins, Mahindra Logistics across warehouses, fulfillment centers and factories. We are a multidisciplinary team solving some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics. Join us in our journey to deploy and scale physical AI.

Our mission is to solve the crushing labor problem faced by farmers today, by making collaborative robots like Wall-E a reality. To do this, we are starting first with a fully autonomous robotic platform called Burro, that helps people work more productively while laying the base for fully autonomous work outdoors.

Point One Navigation is building a precise location service with accuracy down to a few centimeters at a cost 100x less than existing solutions. We use unique sensor fusion techniques and a network of sensors to determine location with unrivaled precision and cost. Our system is specifically designed for use in self driving cars, autonomous drones and other applications that require precise and continuous location and attitude at a low price point. More info available at [email protected]

Too many people lose their lives in armed robberies, school shootings, and other violent events. Talking about it is not enough. VOLT is building autonomous technology that protects people and property by preventing crime and stopping violence.

Rezilient is building the world’s first distributed healthcare system. A network of CloudClinics allow members to see their physicians at any location, regardless of where that doctor is located, because the doctors’ skills can be transported over the internet to any CloudClinic, anywhere in the country, instantly. Each CloudClinic is staffed by a nurse who facilitates the high-touch aspects of the appointment, like taking the patient’s vitals, labs, and physical exams. The doctor appears on a large monitor, while the nurse acts as the doctor’s hands. What makes these CloudClinics especially unique is Rezilient’s cloud health platform. It enables the doctor to, for example, listen to your heart or examine your eardrum remotely with integrated digital medical devices, and on the large screen the patient gets to see what the doctor sees in real time. This means Rezilient members can see the same physician and expect the same patient experience in a CloudClinic in Miami as they would in Phoenix.

Tombot makes robotic animals that transform the daily life of individuals, families and communities facing health adversities. Originally designed to meet the specific medical needs of seniors with dementia, Tombot Puppies have also been preordered for children with Autism, adults with high impact chronic pain, major depressive disorder, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and PTSD, and for long inpatient stays and arduous outpatient treatments at hospitals. Peer-reviewed studies show that robotic animals positively affect some users’ ability to cope with stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression and pain, reducing their need for psychotropic and opioid medications. Key Milestones and Metrics: • Completion of our 5th generation prototype and 3rd round of customers studies with 100s of seniors with dementia • Over 3,900 preorder and waitlist customers • Member of StartX: Stanford-funded startup accelerator program • Member of the Canadian Creative Destruction Lab accelerator program • Member of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles accelerator program (CTIP) • Large-scale clinical trials in development with Children’s Hospital and the University of Southern California to demonstrate reduced stress, anxiety and pain for pediatric hospital inpatients • Large scale study in development with the LAC-USC Hospital Burn Unit to demonstrate reduced stress, anxiety, and pain for pediatric burn patients • Major national and international media coverage • Winner 2019 RoboBusiness Pitchfire competition • Filed multiple trademark, design and provisional utility patent applications • U.S. TAM: $9.0B (seniors with dementia plus mild cognitive impairment)