Company
Anvil Robotics
San Francisco-based modular robotics platform ('Legos for robots') that designs, manufactures, and ships custom physical robots for physical AI teams.
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Status
- private
Models
2
Overview
San Francisco-based modular robotics platform ('Legos for robots') that designs, manufactures, and ships custom physical robots for physical AI teams. Owns its manufacturing in Taiwan and ships configurable robot devkits — including OpenARM and OpenYAM — in 1–2 days, priced from $1,900 to $15,000. Customers include Nvidia's GEAR lab, Path Robotics, Stanford University , Google , and CMU .
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
CEO
Mike Xia (co-founder & CEO)
CTO
Vijay Pradeep (co-founder & CTO)
Manufacturing
Owns manufacturing in Taiwan; sources components from mainland China with 3-4 day lead time
Products
OpenARM 2.0 ($5,600-$15,120), OpenYAM ($1,900), devkits with Quest teleop from $4,730-$9,370
Traction
150+ robots shipped, 50+ customers, 7-figure revenue (as of April 2026)
Customers
Nvidia GEAR lab, Path Robotics, Stanford, Google, CMU, The Bot Company, Formic
Financial stage
Early-stage (seed); 20-30% gross margins on hardware at current volumes
Open source
Reference designs open-sourced on GitHub (github.com/anvil-robotics)
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
3
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
OpenYAM
Single-arm robotic platform with 6DOF IK solver, 3x 60fps camera streams, and 500Hz controls. Anvil's most affordable robot at $1,900, designed for physical AI development and data collection. Available with Quest teleop kit starting at $4,730.
Current platform
OpenARM 2.0
Bimanual robotic arm platform with 7DOF dual-arm IK solver, 4x 60fps camera modules, and 500Hz controls. Designed for physical AI data collection and model training with integrated LeRobot pipelines. Ships in 48 hours, starting at $5,600 for the arm alone or $9,370 with Quest teleop kit.
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Mike Xia CEO & Co-founder
- Vijay Pradeep CTO & Co-founder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Anvil Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Anvil Robotics in third-party press
Funding rounds (2)
- Seed2026-02-15
$6M(reported)
Investors: Matter Venture Partners (lead), Humba Ventures (lead), DNX Ventures, Spacecadet Ventures, Position Ventures
- Pre-Seed2025-07-01
$1M(reported)
Investors: Matter Venture Partners (lead)
Sources (4)
- Exclusive: Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M to Build 'Legos for Robots' Platform For Physical AI Teams · https://news.crunchbase.com/robotics/physical-ai-custom-robot-builder-seed-funding-anvil/
- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anvil-robotics
- Anvil Robotics: Ready-to-go Devkits for Physical AI · https://anvil.bot/
- Building the Foundry for Physical AI | Mike Xia, Anvil Robotics · https://www.optim.vc/building-the-foundry-for-physical-ai-mike-xia-anvil-robotics/
Common questions
- What is Anvil Robotics?
- San Francisco-based modular robotics platform ('Legos for robots') that designs, manufactures, and ships custom physical robots for physical AI teams. Owns its manufacturing in Taiwan and ships configurable robot devkits — including OpenARM and OpenYAM — in 1–2 days, priced from $1,900 to $15,000. Customers include Nvidia's GEAR lab, Path Robotics, Stanford University, Google, and CMU.
- What does Anvil Robotics make?
- Anvil Robotics has 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: OpenYAM, OpenARM 2.0 (Anvil Robotics builds physical robots).
- Is Anvil Robotics publicly traded?
- No. Anvil Robotics is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Where is Anvil Robotics headquartered?
- Anvil Robotics is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Where does Anvil Robotics operate robots?
- Anvil Robotics is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
- When was Anvil Robotics founded?
- Anvil Robotics was founded in 2025.
- Is Anvil Robotics safe?
- Anvil Robotics has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-13
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-13
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Anvil Robotics.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Anvil Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Building the Foundry for Physical AI | Mike Xia, Anvil Robotics
In-depth interview with Anvil Robotics CEO Mike Xia covering their Taiwan manufacturing, kilohertz-rate controls, open-source strategy, and vision for the non-vertical robotics…
Anvil analysis - Sacra
Sacra analysis of Anvil Robotics and CEO Mike Xia on humanoid vs non-humanoid robots and the physical AI hardware market.
Anvil Robotics 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors
PitchBook profile noting $6.5M total funding for Anvil Robotics with investors including Brainstorm Ventures and Dhuna Ventures.
Exclusive: Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M to Build ‘Legos for Robots’ Platform For Physical AI Teams
Anvil Robotics raised $5.5M seed led by Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures, with participation from DNX Ventures and others. The startup builds modular robots priced…
Anvil Robotics Achieves 90-Day Robot Deployment
Matter Venture Partners founding partner Haomiao Huang highlights Anvil Robotics selling, building, and shipping first robots in under 90 days from company launch.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/anvil-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/anvil-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/605b8e01-74ef-4137-9426-f82c6892652b
- Revision history: /companies/anvil-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
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Trying out the teleoperation rig from Anvil Robotics at Deep Tech Week SF 2026 - two arms, one operator, and some balls that needed to move from one bucket to a
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Anvil Robotics on the deployment map
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