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Robot brains

The AI foundation models, VLAs, world models, frameworks, and OS-layers that animate robots in the registry. A brain is the cognitive identity of a robot, distinct from the body that runs it.

Maturity stages apply DEPLOY's ladder (research / pilot / commercial / production), not source-list labels. "Released and in use" is usually research or commercial, not production.

CategoryAll (56)Humanoids (18)Warehouse robotics (0)Drones (6)Agricultural robots (0)Trucks (13)Maritime (1)Construction robots (0)Robotaxis (13)Wearable AI (0)Space (0)Exoskeletons (0)Surgical robots (0)Food service (0)Defense UGV (0)Robot vacuums (0)Lawn mowers (0)Quadrupeds (0)Sidewalk delivery (1)Biometric wearables (0)Smart home (0)Security robots (0)Companion robots (0)
  • Apollo ADFM (Baidu)Foundation model · Commercial

    Baidu's Apollo autonomous-driving platform, rebuilt around Apollo ADFM (Autonomous Driving Foundation Model) in Apollo Open Platform 10.0 (Dec 2024), described by Baidu as the world's first foundation model supporting Level 4 autonomous driving. Powers the Apollo Go robotaxi fleet (including the 6th-gen RT6) and is credited with enabling driverless deployment in new cities within months.

  • Aurora DriverFoundation model · Commercial

    Aurora's SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system for trucks: the common autonomy platform (sensing, including long-range lidar, plus redundant compute and the driving software) that operates Class 8 trucks driverlessly. Integrated across PACCAR, International (Navistar), and Volvo truck platforms.

  • Avride ADSFoundation model · Pilot

    Avride's in-house automated driving system (ADS), developed by the core team behind Yandex's former self-driving group. A single proprietary autonomy stack (lidar, camera, ultrasonic) powering both Avride's robotaxis (fully-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5, on the Uber platform in Dallas and Austin) and its sidewalk delivery robots across US cities.

  • Gatik DriverFoundation model · Commercial

    Gatik's L4 autonomous-driving system (3rd-generation) for fixed, repeatable middle-mile routes, paired with the Gatik Arena simulation platform (built on NVIDIA Cosmos) and NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor in-vehicle compute. Operates Class 6/7 box trucks driverlessly on commercial routes.

  • Nuro DriverFoundation model · Pilot

    Nuro's AI-driven Level 4 autonomy system (the Nuro Driver), built on NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, offered both as a full L4 stack and a Level 2++ Driver Assist. Validated across 8+ vehicle platforms with 1M+ autonomous miles and zero at-fault incidents; since Sept 2024 licensed to automotive OEMs and mobility providers alongside the Nuro AI Platform developer tools.

  • Plus SuperDriveFoundation model · Pilot

    Plus's SAE Level 4 'virtual driver' (SuperDrive): a factory-installable autonomous-driving system designed for OEM integration into production trucks. In development and supervised fleet-trial stage (NVIDIA world-model collaboration; SuperDrive 6.0). No verified driver-out commercial freight yet; driverless validation targeted 2026.

  • PonyWorld (Pony.ai Virtual Driver)World model · Commercial

    Pony.ai's proprietary world model (PonyWorld) and Virtual Driver technology, which together power its Gen-7 robotaxi and robotruck autonomous-driving stack. PonyWorld 2.0 (Apr 2026) is a self-improving physical-AI engine with self-diagnosis, targeted data collection in weak scenarios, and training focused on the hardest cases.

  • Tesla FSD-BotFoundation model · Pilot

    Tesla's neural-net brain derived from the FSD vehicle stack plus Dojo training infrastructure. V3 is expected to run on Tesla's AI5 inference chip (taped out April 2026); Musk states AI5 has roughly 5x the memory bandwidth of its predecessor (AI4) and will ship first in Optimus, though these remain Musk-stated figures pending independent verification. On-device, vision-based, sharing architecture with Tesla vehicles. The Tesla AI-silicon advantage (FSD plus Dojo) is a real engineering edge. Less specified than Figure 03's stack was at the equivalent stage; full V3 specs are unknown as of mid-2026, with a summer 2026 unveil expected. Verified-vs-claimed: FSD-as-precedent is mixed; 'almost done' for nearly a decade.

  • VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)Foundation model · Pilot · Open

    Xpeng Robotics' vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only) shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip. Announced for open-sourcing to global partners, with Volkswagen as the launch partner. VLA 2.0 rolled to Xpeng Ultra vehicles in Q1 2026; IRON humanoid mass production is targeted for end-2026.

  • Waymo DriverFoundation model · Commercial

    Waymo's autonomous driving system (the Waymo Driver), now in its sixth generation, integrating a 360-degree sensor suite (cameras, lidar, radar) with perception, prediction, and planning to run fully-driverless robotaxi service. Waymo's research includes EMMA, a Gemini-powered end-to-end multimodal driving model that remains research-stage and is not deployed in production vehicles.

  • WeRide OneFoundation model · Commercial

    WeRide's universal autonomous-driving platform (WeRide One), embedding an end-to-end AI model that spans Level 2 to Level 4 across all WeRide vehicle types (robotaxi, robobus, robovan, robosweeper). Designed to be decoupled from specific compute and chips for rapid migration across hardware, reducing OEM adaptation cost and deployment time.

  • Zoox Driving SystemFoundation model · Pilot

    Zoox's in-house AI driving system: the perception-prediction-planning stack at the center of its purpose-built, bidirectional robotaxi (no steering wheel or pedals). Predicts trajectories of vehicles, people, and animals up to about 8 seconds ahead with 360-degree sensing; powers Zoox's public driverless demonstration rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco.

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