Overview
Cognitive robot intelligence platform founded by AI pioneer Gary Marcus, building hybrid neuro-symbolic AI for robot reasoning.
Reality check
Carter (company-claimed)
AI-powered collaborative mobile robot for warehouses.
Workflows (company-claimed)
Picking, putaway, point-to-point transport and sortation without fixed conveyors.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founded
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
2
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Robust.AI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
Most recent
- with DHL Supply Chainoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Gary Marcus CEO & Co-founder
- Rodney Brooks Co-founder
Founders (2)
- Gary Marcus
- Rodney Brookscofounderno longer at company
previously at Rethink Robotics
Safety record
No incidents on record for Robust.AI.
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
Robust.AI in third-party press
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names Robust.AI.
People (1)
Partnerships
4 total · 4 operating
Every company Robust.AI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with DHL Supply Chainoperating
All 4 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Robust.AI x Foxconn (Carter Manufacturing)withFoxconnmanufacturing—operating
- robust-ai x nvidiawithNVIDIA132technology—operating
- robust-ai x awswithAWS30technology—operating
- Robust.AI x DHL Supply Chain (Warehouse Automation)withDHL Supply Chaindeployment2024-02-01operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Robust.AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipRobust.AI x DHL Supply Chain (Warehouse Automation)
2024-02-01DHL Supply Chain announced a five-year strategic alliance with Robust.AI to deploy Carter collaborative mobile robots across warehouse operations, with robots integrated into DHL's Warehouse Management System by 2026.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 9, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- 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 Robust.AI.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Robust.AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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O’Neill Logistics to deploy collaborative mobile robots in two distribution centers
Robust.AI Carter robots will support retail and direct-to-consumer fulfillment operations.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/robust-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/robust-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6dfa2691-4736-48d5-9c7e-3b1a6159f481
- Revision history: /companies/robust-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious58/100
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
Not enough verified signal yet to place Robust.AI against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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: Nov 9, 2026