# Runway: robot AI company

Canonical ID: `69cfc9c5-fc28-413f-9294-03aa9e809548`

## Key facts

- **Praxis-1 open-weight world-action model; early partners (company-stated, Sep/Oct 2026):** Company-stated ([company-stated](https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1); also [The Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/runway-introduces-praxis-1-world-action-model-robotics/)): Runway announced Praxis-1, its first open-weight world action model built on the same large-scale video pretraining behind its general world models. Pitch: less scarce robot teleop demos, more video-to-policy. Early partners named on the research page: Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra, each running Praxis-1 on their own hardware. Public open-weight release planned in the coming months (no exact date). Cap: company research post; partner results are Runway-stated early testing, not independent benchmarks.
- **Web-video pretraining placement error:** Runway's Praxis-1 research post reports that after finetuning, web-video pretraining from scratch reached 16.1 cm final placement error versus 16.0 cm for teleop robot video from scratch, with error bars of plus or minus 1 SEM over 93 evaluation pairs, and says differences smaller than a bar are not significant ([Runway](https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1)).
- **World-model correlation and early partners:** Runway says simulating robot policies inside its world model predicts real-world results with 0.95 correlation, and that early Praxis-1 partners include Noble Machines (bimanual), Standard Bots (6-DoF RO1 arm), and Ultra (mobile base), each running the model on their own hardware ahead of a planned open-weight public release ([Runway](https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1)).

- **Slug:** runway
- **Status:** private
- **HQ:** New York, NY

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Runway?

US generative AI company best known for video models. Sep/Oct 2026: announced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns video pretraining into robot control; early partners include Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra; public open-weight release planned in the coming months.

### What does Runway make?

Runway has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Runway builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

### Is Runway publicly traded?

No. Runway is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Runway?

Runway is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Runway headquartered?

Runway is headquartered in New York, NY.

### Who owns Runway?

Runway is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Runway a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Runway ranks in roughly the top 7% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (2)

1. https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1 · 2026-09-01
2. https://www.therobotreport.com/runway-introduces-praxis-1-world-action-model-robotics/ · 2026-10-02

## 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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