After decades of speculation in sci-fi stories, the robots are here. The robotics market is up 7% over the first half of 2019, with the largest growth seen in the automotive industry. During that period, 16,488 were put to work by North American companies. (That’s $869 million worth of robots.) For those looking to work in, or keep a close eye, on the industry, these 15 robotics companies from across the country are on the cutting edge.
Location: San Jose, CA
Automation Anywhere offers an advanced, enterprise-grade, cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform. Their intelligent process robots transform the way businesses operate, delivering complex business and IT work across a range of processes including procure-to-pay, quote-to-cash, HR administration, claims processing, and thousands of other front and back office processes.
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Location: Waltham, MA
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation. The company began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where National Academy of Engineering member Marc Raibert and his colleagues first developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals.
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Location: Cambridge, MA
Soft Robotics opens new markets to automation through the application and commercialization of its proprietary soft robotics technology. The business end of a robotic arm is the gripper, and that element can make or break a robot. Soft Robotics envisions an age where it can automate pick and pack for grocery distribution, bin picking of soft and delicate parts, e-commerce order fulfillment, fruit harvesting, luggage handling, and consumer goods packaging.
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Location: Radford, VA
Kollmorgen is the leading provider of motion systems and components to OEMs around the globe which provide precision motion solutions in demanding environments. Because motion matters, it’s their focus. Motion can distinctly differentiate a machine or a vehicle and deliver a marketplace advantage by improving its performance. This translates to overall increased efficiency.
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Bossa Nova Robotics is the leading provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry. Its technology collects terabytes of data that enables the retail ecosystem to optimize the omnichannel shopping experience. With a multidisciplinary team of robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and big data scientists, Bossa Nova has solved the challenges to deploy fully autonomous service robots in busy and crowded environments.
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Location: San Jose, CA
Fetch Robotics is an industrial robotics startup that develops and manufactures collaborative, autonomous mobile robot solutions for the warehousing and logistical markets. It takes advantage of its deep robotics expertise to provide reliable and safe collaborative AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) solutions for two commercial applications: material handling and data collection.
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Location: Westlake Village, CA
inVia Robotics provides the next generation of robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains. As the developer of the world’s first “Robotics-as-a-Service” autonomous mobile robot picking and goods-to-person system, inVia is powering the future of warehouse productivity without disrupting the ecosystem of a business’s operations.
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Simbe Robotics is the world’s first fully autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution, set on automating the most mundane, repetitive tasks in retail executionIts proprietary robot, Tally, performs the repetitive and laborious tasks of auditing shelves for out-of-stock items, low stock items, misplaced items, and pricing errors. It operates safely during normal store hours alongside shoppers and employees.
Location: Wilmington, MA
Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce. Locus’ robots work collaboratively alongside workers to dramatically improve order productivity and increase fulfillment speed and throughput 2X-3X with near-perfect order accuracy, to ensure that consumers receive their orders as quickly and accurately as possible.
Locus Robotics is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Osaro is an artificial intelligence company developing products based on proprietary deep reinforcement learning technology. Like many advanced machine learning technologies, Osaro’s software automatically extracts information from high-dimensional, time-varying data. But Osaro goes beyond merely classifying data. The technology interacts with the environment to learn, discover, and achieve a specific goal.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Seegrid is the leading provider of connected self-driving vehicles for materials handling with more than a million miles driven. The Seegrid Smart Platform combines flexible and reliable infrastructure-free vision guided vehicles with fleet management software for a complete connected solution. Seegrid accelerates Industry 4.0 and lean initiatives with incremental automation, helping companies achieve a truly connected enterprise and transform into smart factories of the future.
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Location: Bay Shore, NY
ULC Robotics works with the utilities and energy industry to provide research and development, pipeline robotics and advanced energy services. Research and development teams work to increase efficiency, lower maintenance and operating costs and improve safety through the use of trenchless technology, no-dig technology and no-hole technology. They have created custom inspection equipment, advanced electromechanical systems and updated processes.
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Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Intuitive Surgical is the pioneer and a global leader in robotic-assisted, minimally invasive surgery. In more than two decades working closely with care teams and hospital leaders, Intuitive has learned that human understanding, smart systems and instruments, and digital insights are needed to enable better outcomes. It calls this process Intelligent Surgery.
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Location: Waltham, MA
Corindus, Inc. designs, manufactures, and commercializes remote robotic systems for interventional procedures. The company’s products include CorPath, which enables physicians to perform catheterization procedures from a remote location away from the radiation zone.
Corindus Vascular Robotics is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Location: Cambridge, MA
RightHand Robotics is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order and fulfillment of electronics, apparel, and grocery. Its robots grasp a wide variety of items from bins and cases. RightHand’s core technology enables the company to do this automatically — without laborious data-entry or parameter-tuning — so they are inexpensive to set up and flexible to the changing needs of businesses.
RightHand Robotics is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
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