The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Collaborative Robotics: 1 model, $140.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
CategoryWarehouse & Logistics Robotics
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Collaborative Robotics (brand name Cobot) is a Santa Clara-based robotics company founded by former Amazon Robotics chief Brad Porter. The company develops Proxie, a collaborative robot designed to work alongside humans across sectors including logistics, healthcare, and retail. Backed by Sequoia capital, Cobot raised $100M in Series B funding in 2024, bringing total funding to $140M.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries B post-money
Key facts
Brand
Founder
Robot
Focus
CEO
Total fundingsee investors →
Key investor
Data & sources
Web sources
1
1 source backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Collaborative Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Clemson University1× joint2 total
- 2Dominion Dynamics1× joint1 total
- 3Kawada Robotics1× joint2 total
- 4UR+1× joint2 total
Most recent
Collaborative Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Brad Porter Founder & CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Brad Porterno longer at company
previously at Berkshire Grey, Amazon
later founded Cobot Intel
Former / Previously (1)
- Brad Porter founderreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Collaborative 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
Collaborative Robotics in third-party press
Peers
247 peers across 3 segments. Every Collaborative Robotics 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%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
amr(82)
53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%
- 4AG Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- 6 River Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Addverbdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aethondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aigendirect competitor(inferred)moderate
cobot(21)
19 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2089.586283779087) · leader Doosan Robotics at 2849%
- AUBO Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agile Robotsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- DENSO Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Dobotdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Doosan Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ELITE Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $140.0M
- Employees
- 182
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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
4 total · 4 just announced
Every company Collaborative Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Clemson University1× joint2 total
- 2Dominion Dynamics1× joint1 total
- 3Kawada Robotics1× joint2 total
- 4UR+1× joint2 total
All 4 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
Funding rounds (2)
Collaborative Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $130M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2024-04-01
$100M(reported) · $800M post
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Alfred Lin
- Series A2023-06-01
$30M(reported) · $180M post
Investors: Sequoia Capital (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Collaborative Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2024-04-01Series B raising $100000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2023-06-01Series A raising $30000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Collaborative Robotics.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Savoye5 models
- Reeman4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Collaborative Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Regal Rexnord and Fanuc launch integrated linear axis for CRX collaborative robots
Regal Rexnord has formed a strategic collaboration with robotics and automation company Fanuc to deliver a fully integrated collaborative robotics solution that combines expertise…
Cobot's Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation
Collaborative Robotics unveils Proxie Gen 2 with greater payload, self-swapping batteries, autonomous task identification, and two-armed manipulation for healthcare, logistics,…
From big tech to robots: Cobot founder Brad Porter and the race to robotics
Brad Porter discusses his transition from leading Amazon's Robotics organization to founding Cobot, and the future of collaborative robotics.
Collaborative Robotics Raises $100 Million in Series B Funding
Cobot raised $100M in Series B funding to scale development of Proxie, its collaborative robot designed to work with humans in every sector.
Embracing the Odyssey: Cobot raises $40M in seed and Series A
Cobot founder Brad Porter announced $40M in seed and Series A funding to build collaborative robots that transform how humans work alongside robots.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/collaborative-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/collaborative-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/4ca38b60-42c1-46fc-b182-7e43b84b49c1
- Revision history: /companies/collaborative-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Savoye5 models
- Reeman4 models
Video
Compact size. Industrial precision. The DOBOT MG400 is a desktop collaborative robot arm designed to bring automation into compact workspaces. With high repeat
Heat Index
Category contender83/100
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
Collaborative Robotics draws attention at the 34th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among AMRs.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to 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: Oct 4, 2026