Top Robotics Startups in 2027

Natlius designs and produces large scale unmanned aircraft that are reducing air freight costs and emissions by 50%. With over $5 billion in aircraft pre orders from major airlines and integrators, Natilus aircraft are poised to become the market standard in moving global freight. The company has three products: 1.) 3.8 ton 'feeder' aircraft meant to compete with Cessna Caravan and Sky Courrier 2.) 60 ton domestic meant to compete with Boeing 767/757 3.) 100 ton trans-pacific freighter meant to compete with Boeing 777/747 Lead by an aerospace team with experience in 25+ aircraft programs, Natilus is currently in the process of producing the first 3.8 ton aircraft.

Lunar Outpost is the leader in commercial planetary robotics, enabling businesses and governments to explore and utilize the lunar surface with a focus on developing technologies that have both terrestrial and space applications. Comprised of engineers with experience working on NASA, defense, and commercial programs, Lunar Outpost is well suited to actively engage with customers in a collaborative manner to produce quality products. Lunar Outpost is enabling an extended human presence in space while positively impacting Earth and always striving toward #thenextleap!

At Halodi we are passionate about robots. Our mission is to bring capable humanoid robots to everyone. To achieve this, we have developed Eve, a full-sized humanoid robot that will serve industry and consumers at an affordable price. Eve is unlike any other robot, due to our Revo1 drive system with in-house developed motors and close to frictionless transmissions. This enables her to be the world’s first human strength direct-drive robot. Also, she operates silently and can safely interact with people. We have already set the world records for highest torque to weight ratio servo motors, most transparent transmissions, and highest payload to weight ratio for a robotic arm, and we have barely started. After developing our prototype robot, and successfully securing funding, we are preparing to scale up our organization to further develop our robot and handle production.

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.

Phantom Cybernetics is a robotics startup based on the Vancouver Island, Canada. The company is working on ROS2 open-source tools and hosted observability, debugging and teleoperation service called Phantom Bridge: docs.phntm.io/bridgeWe are also developing proprietary software and hardware products and solutions.

XPRIZE is an innovation engine. A facilitator of exponential change. A catalyst for the benefit of humanity. We believe in the power of Incentivizing for innovation and competitions. That it’s part of our DNA. Of humanity itself. That tapping into that indomitable spirit of competition brings about breakthroughs and solutions that once seemed unimaginable. Impossible. We believe that you get what you incentivize. And that without a target, you will miss it every time. Rather than throw money at a problem, we incentivize the solution and challenge the world to solve it. We believe that challenges must be audacious, but achievable, tied to objective, measurable goals. And understandable by all. We believe that solutions can come from anyone, anywhere and that some of the greatest minds of our time remain untapped, ready to be engaged by a world that is in desperate need of help. Solutions. Change. And radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.

A&K Robotics develops autonomous vehicles to change the way we move around our world. We design and build helpful robots and want to change the world through automation. We are a diverse team of scientists, entrepreneurs, dreamers and engineers with a shared sense of curiosity and purpose. We care about what we do and we have fun doing it. We are creative, out-of-the-box thinkers that value diverse perspectives and believe that interdisciplinary collaboration is fundamental to building robots for people. We specialize in self-driving AI and autonomous navigation for indoors. A&K-equipped intelligent machines are deployed and proven across a diverse array of environments, like schools, airports and hospitals where objects are moved and people are active. A&K is a venture-backed technology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.

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.

We are building a teleoperation interface to intuitively control robots at a distance with hand and arm movements using gaming technologies such as virtual reality, tracking and haptics. Amazingly, we can also teach robots via teleoperation and therefore increase autonomy with AI. Our long-term vision is to build AI based robot OS that can control and manipulate objects at a human level of dexterity with any robotic hardware.