The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Brain Corp: 1 model, 2 deployments across 1 region, $125.0M raised. 10 sources back the record.
Overview
American autonomous technology company developing AI software for commercial floor cleaning robots. 50,000+ autonomous robots deployed. Powers Walmart's floor scrubbers. DARPA-funded origins.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundOther post-money
Key facts
HQ
Founded
Deployment
Key customer
Origins
Unit cost
Incidents
Data & sources
Patent documents
8
Web sources
2
10 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Brain Corp has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Karcher1× joint1 total
- 2Nilfisk1× joint1 total
- 3SoftBank Robotics1× joint2 total
- 4Spirit AI1× joint1 total
- 5Tennant Company1× joint1 total
- 6Walmart1× joint8 total
Most recent
- Kärcher x Brain Corp (KIRA B 100 R)2024-04-01with Karcheroperating
- Tennant Company x Brain Corp2024-01-01with Tennant Companyoperating
- Brain Corp x Walmart2019-01-01with Walmartoperating
- Brain Corp x SoftBank Robotics2019-01-01with SoftBank Roboticsoperating
Brain Corp on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 1 region, newest verified Jan 2026. Explore where Brain Corp's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Brain Corp, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What are commercial cleaning robots and how do they work?
What is Brain Corp BrainOS and which cleaning robots use it?
What is SoftBank Robotics Whiz and how does it clean?
Current leadership (1)
- Eugene Izhikevich CEO & Co-Founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Eugene Izhikevichcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Brain Corp.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Brain Corp2 deployments
Brains developed (1)
- BrainOSos-layer · production
Recent coverage
Brain Corp in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Brain Corp competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- Flexion Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Tacta Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Supplies to (5)
Foundation model / software
- Nilfisk Liberty SC60by NilfiskBrainOS autonomous-navigation platformlicenses
- ICE Cobi 18by ICE CoboticsBrainOS autonomous-navigation platformlicenses
- SoftBank Whizby SoftBank RoboticsBrainOS autonomous-navigation platformlicenses
- Tennant X4 ROVRby Tennant CompanyBrainOS autonomous-navigation platformlicenses
- Tennant T7AMRby Tennant CompanyBrainOS autonomous-navigation platformlicenses
Outbound supply edges from this company. Each relationship appears here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Financial state
- Total funding
- $125.0M
- Employees
- 291
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
6 total · 4 operating · 2 just announced
Every company Brain Corp has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Kärcher x Brain Corp (KIRA B 100 R)2024-04-01with Karcheroperating
- Tennant Company x Brain Corp2024-01-01with Tennant Companyoperating
- Brain Corp x Walmart2019-01-01with Walmartoperating
- Brain Corp x SoftBank Robotics2019-01-01with SoftBank Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Karcher1× joint1 total
- 2Nilfisk1× joint1 total
- 3SoftBank Robotics1× joint2 total
- 4Spirit AI1× joint1 total
- 5Tennant Company1× joint1 total
- 6Walmart1× joint8 total
All 6 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- technology2024-04-01operating
- technology2024-01-01operating
- deployment2019-01-01operating
- technology2019-01-01operating
Funding rounds (1)
- Other2019-05-01
$125M(reported) · $625M post
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund
Patent estate (8)
- US20240410715A1usptopendingassignee
- US12339674B2usptograntedassignee
- US12393196B2usptograntedassignee
- US20240370022A1usptopendingassignee
- US8961695B2usptograntedgranted 2015-02-24assignee
- US9884423B2usptograntedgranted 2019-01-29assignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Brain Corp’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Google DeepMind
2026-08-22Supply: component to Google DeepMind
PartnershipKärcher x Brain Corp (KIRA B 100 R)
2024-04-01Kärcher and Brain Corp partnered to develop the KIRA B 100 R, a professional robotic floor scrubber powered by Brain Corp's autonomous navigation platform. The partnership combines Kärcher's cleaning hardware expertise with Brain Corp's AI-driven robotic operating system.
PartnershipTennant Company x Brain Corp
2024-01-01Tennant Company and Brain Corp signed an exclusive technology agreement to accelerate robotic floor cleaning innovation and adoption. Tennant generated $85M in annual robotics sales and $27M in autonomous mobile robot sales in Q1 2025 through this partnership.
Funding roundOther funding round
2019-05-01Other raising $125000000
PartnershipBrain Corp x Walmart
2019-01-01Walmart deployed hundreds of BrainOS-powered autonomous floor-scrubbing robots (Auto-C) across US stores, with Brain Corp providing the autonomy software that converts commercial scrubbers into self-driving machines.
PartnershipBrain Corp x SoftBank Robotics
2019-01-01SoftBank Robotics' Whiz autonomous commercial vacuum is powered by Brain Corp's BrainOS navigation platform, an OEM technology partnership embedding Brain Corp autonomy into SoftBank's cleaning robot.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Brain Corp and Tennant Company: Strengthening the Future of Robotic...
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJan 1, 2026
BrainOS at USA
- Deployment recordedJan 1, 2026
BrainOS at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment recordedJan 1, 2026
BrainOS at USA
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Brain Corp.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Brain Corp from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Brain Corp reports 68 percent growth and surpasses 50,000 autonomous robots worldwide
Brain Corp, a provider of operating systems for robots, has announced “strong global fleet momentum for the first half of 2026”. This milestone underscores the growing role of…
Sam's Club Finalizes National Deployment of Inventory Scan, Brain Corp Becomes World's Largest Supplier of Robotic Inventory Scanners
Sam's Club completed national deployment of BrainOS-powered Inventory Scan robots, making Brain Corp the world's largest supplier of robotic inventory scanners.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/brain-corp.md
- RSS feed: /companies/brain-corp/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/47b755fc-d68d-4e47-a5de-acd9b5387228
- Revision history: /companies/brain-corp/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Video
You may have passed through our website once or twice, you've maybe even seen one of our robots in the field, and you ask yourself, "what exactly does Brain Corp do?" Your Machine + Our Software = Your Robot ~A short f
Meet Chris Doran, Director of Technical Program Management at Brain Corp. Brain Corp is the global leader in robotic AI software that powers the largest fleet
Join Mike Graen as he sits down with Matt Schilb, VP of Customer Success & Analytics, and Zeena Keshwji, Senior Product Manager at Brain Corp, to explore how AI
Meet Project Brawn, the next-generation autonomous mobile manipulator from Brain Corp. Purpose-built for retail, this intelligent robot pairs advanced computer
Introducing BrainOS® Clean 2.0, a major software update pushing the performance of Tennant floor cleaning robots further than ever before. By combining advanced
Manual cycle counting is a broken process. In this video, Drew Brennan shares why traditional inventory tracking frustrates teams, drains productivity, and fal
Brain Corp and Tennant Company have officially announced an extension of their strategic partnership, solidifying their positions as leaders in the autonomous m
Discover how Brain Corp is driving global growth by scaling commercial operations worldwide. In this video, Chris Lobdell shares how Brain Corp is deploying rea
We’ve partnered with ShelfOptix™ to give retailers and brands a whole new way to see what’s really happening at the shelf. This fully managed service uses our a
Automate cycle counting with the Dane AiR™ DC powered by BrainOS®. Manual inventory counting in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities i
In today’s retail world, keeping shelves stocked and organized isn’t simple. And yet, associates are still expected to stay customer-focused. This video is a
Heat Index
Category contender87/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Brain Corp draws attention at the 67th percentile but verifies reality at the 89th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap -21.3, 136th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 7 verified deployments. Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 5, 2026