# Rendezvous Robotics: space robotics company

Canonical ID: `db6822e5-fde3-4d57-bbf6-7f47afde26f4`

## Key facts

- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** Golden, CO, USA
- **Funding:** [$3M pre-seed (2025)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Notable:** Commercializing MIT Media Lab [TESSERAE](/models/rendezvous-tesserae.md) self-assembling tile tech

- **Slug:** rendezvous-robotics
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** Golden, Colorado, USA
- **Category:** [Space](/space)

## Models

- [TESSERAE](/models/rendezvous-tesserae.md) (space) (id: `59350a60-2dd3-4414-97eb-6d6a9ef8a4f4`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Ariel Ekblaw](/people/ariel-ekblaw.md) Co-founder (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Rendezvous Robotics?

Golden, Colorado-based space infrastructure startup commercializing TESSERAE (Tessellated Electromagnetic Space Structures for the Exploration of Reconfigurable, Adaptive Environments) — modular tiles that self-assemble in orbit to create large space structures. Technology developed at MIT Media Lab by co-founder Ariel Ekblaw and tested on the Axiom Space AX-1 ISS mission. Now in its fifth generation.

### What does Rendezvous Robotics make?

Rendezvous Robotics has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: TESSERAE (Rendezvous Robotics builds physical robots).

### Where is Rendezvous Robotics headquartered?

Rendezvous Robotics is headquartered in Golden, Colorado, USA.

### Where does Rendezvous Robotics operate robots?

Rendezvous 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.

### Is Rendezvous Robotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Rendezvous Robotics ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Rendezvous Robotics founded?

Rendezvous Robotics was founded in 2025.


## Sources (2)

1. https://spacenews.com/rendezvous-robotics-raises-funding-to-develop-technology-for-self-assembling-space-structures/
2. https://www.rdvrobotics.com/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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