Founders

Founders (957)

• Mary Meeker1 founding

  Legendary technology analyst and investor, founder of BOND Capital in 2018 after leaving Kleiner Perkins. Known for her annual Internet Trends Report (published...

  Founded Bond

• Damion Shelton1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Agility Robotics; served as CEO from the 2015 founding until 2024, when he transitioned to chairman and Peggy Johnson became CEO.

  Founded Agility Robotics

• Jonathan Hurst1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Robot Officer of Agility Robotics (formerly CTO) and a robotics professor at Oregon State University, whose lab built the ATRIAS, Cassie an...

  Founded Agility Robotics

• Mikhail Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Software Engineering at Agility Robotics; as a graduate student under Jonathan Hurst at Oregon State he was lead developer of the control s...

  Founded Agility Robotics

• Luis Sentis1 founding

  Co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Apptronik; associate professor at UT Austin and a former NASA Johnson Space Center contractor. PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Apptronik

• Nicholas Paine1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; PhD in robotics from the UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab.

  Founded Apptronik

• Dave Ferguson1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of Nuro; previously a principal ML engineer on the Google self-driving project / Waymo. PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Nuro

• Jiajun Zhu1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of Nuro; previously a principal software engineer on the Google self-driving project / Waymo.

  Founded Nuro

• RJ Scaringe1 founding

  Founder of Mind Robotics.

  Founded Mind Robotics

• Abhinav Gupta1 founding

  Co-founder of Skild AI and professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

  Founded Skild AI

• Deepak Pathak1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. PhD from UC Berkeley.

  Founded Skild AI

• Brendan Iribe1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform before joining Oculus in 2012.

  Founded Oculus VR

• Michael Antonov1 founding

  Co-founder of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform, a UI middleware company acquired by Autodesk.

  Founded Oculus VR

• Nate Mitchell1 founding

  Co-founder of Oculus VR, focused on product development for the Rift and Quest headset line.

  Founded Oculus VR

• Andrew Reiter1 founding

  Co-founder and Technical Fellow at Shield AI (its original CTO until 2018); previously at Draper Laboratory (visual-inertial guidance, autonomous quadrotors). M...

  Founded Shield AI

• Brandon Tseng1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Shield AI; a former US Navy SEAL.

  Founded Shield AI

• Ryan Tseng1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Shield AI; previously founded wireless-power company WiPower (acquired by Qualcomm).

  Founded Shield AI

• Moshe Shoham1 founding

  Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and head of the Robotics Lab. Co-founded Mazor Robotics and served as CTO. A wo...

  Founded Mazor Robotics

• David Reger1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Germany's Neura Robotics (founded 2019), maker of the 4NE-1 humanoid; credited with popularizing the term 'cognitive robotics'.

  Founded NEURA Robotics

• Meisong Lai1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of ZTO Express, China's largest express delivery company by parcel volume. Founded the company in 2002 in Shanghai and led it to dual ...

  Founded ZTO Express

• Sugeeth Gopinathan1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Project & Product Management at Neura Robotics.

  Founded NEURA Robotics

• James Peng1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Pony.ai; previously Chief Architect of Baidu's autonomous-driving unit and a software engineer at Google. PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Pony AI

• Tiancheng Lou1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and director of Pony.ai; previously a principal engineer at Baidu and an engineer at Google. PhD from Tsinghua.

  Founded Pony AI

• Florian Seibel1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Quantum Systems; a former Bundeswehr military helicopter pilot. Also co-founded Stark Defense (2024), where he is now a founding invest...

  Founded Quantum Systems

• Jesse Levinson1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Zoox; previously led the self-driving team at Stanford under Sebastian Thrun (DARPA Urban Challenge). PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Zoox

• Tim Kentley-Klay1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Zoox (ousted by the board in 2018).

  Founded Zoox

• Marc Raibert1 founding

  Founder of Boston Dynamics (1992 MIT spinoff). Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; founded the Leg Lab at Carnegie Mellon in 1980. ...

  Founded Boston Dynamics

• Adam Jelley1 founding

  Founded General Intuition

• Eloi Alonso1 founding

  Founded General Intuition

• Pim de Witte1 founding

  Founded General Intuition

• Vincent Micheli1 founding

  Founded General Intuition

• Christophe Lavigne1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LDR Holding Corporation, led the company from its French origins through its 2013 NASDAQ IPO and 2016 acquisition by Zimmer Biomet for ~$1...

  Founded LDR Holding Corporation

• Adnan Esmail1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence (hardware / engineering leadership); previously in Hardware Technologies at Tesla and SVP of Engineering at Anduril Industri...

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Brian Ichter1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; previously a research scientist in Google DeepMind robotics.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Chelsea Finn1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and assistant professor at Stanford; previously at Google Brain. PhD from UC Berkeley.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Karol Hausman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence; previously a senior research scientist in Google Brain / Google DeepMind robotics and adjunct faculty at Stanford.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Lachy Groom1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; investor and operator, previously an early executive at Stripe.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Quan Vuong1 founding

  Co-founder and researcher at Physical Intelligence (cross-embodiment learning); previously a software engineer at Google DeepMind. PhD from UC San Diego (report...

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Sergey Levine1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and associate professor at UC Berkeley; previously a research scientist at Google Brain. PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Nevada Sanchez1 founding

  Nevada Sanchez co-founded Butterfly Network and developed the Ultrasound-on-Chip technology behind the Butterfly iQ. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015.

  Founded Butterfly Network

• Jonathan Rothberg1 founding

  Scientist and entrepreneur who invented next-generation DNA sequencing; founded Butterfly Network in 2011 after seeing a talk by MIT's Ed Boyden. Previously fou...

  Founded Butterfly Network

• Tyler S. Ralston1 founding

  Tyler S. Ralston co-founded Butterfly Network.

  Founded Butterfly Network

• Chen Xiaobo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shihang Intelligent (SEAHI Robotics). Graduated from Harbin Engineering University with 18 years in marine robotics. Named Young Scientist fo...

  Founded Shihang Intelligent

• James Zhou1 founding

  Founder and CEO of UBTech Robotics (HKEX: 9880). Shenzhen-based humanoid and smart service robot maker. Walker industrial humanoid deployed at manufacturing fac...

  Founded UBTech Robotics

• Xiong Youjun1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and executive director of UBTECH Robotics; also GM of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Doctorate from Huazhong University of Scienc...

  Founded UBTech Robotics

• Zhou Jian1 founding

  Founder and CEO of UBTech Robotics (Shenzhen, founded 2012). Led the company through its 2023 Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPO. Built UBTech into one of China's lar...

  Founded UBTech Robotics

• Kari Kivela1 founding

  Co-founder of Oura (hardware / design); departed the executive team by ~2020.

  Founded Oura

• Markku Koskela1 founding

  Co-founder of Oura (R&D); departed the executive team.

  Founded Oura

• Petteri Lahtela1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Oura; Finnish health-technology entrepreneur.

  Founded Oura

• Chen Li1 founding

  Co-founder of Unitree Robotics (commercial / sales); previously in international sales at Hikvision. Current involvement not publicly confirmed.

  Founded Unitree Robotics

• Wang Xingxing1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics (founded 2016), the Hangzhou-based quadruped and humanoid robot maker.

  Founded Unitree Robotics

• Xingxing Wang1 founding

  Founded Unitree Robotics, leading it to global leadership in quadrupedal and humanoid robots with .7B valuation.

  Founded Unitree Robotics

• He Wang1 founding

  Founder and CTO of Galbot (Galaxy General, founded 2023), maker of the G1 and the GraspVLA model; an assistant professor at Peking University's Center on Fronti...

  Founded Galbot

• Yao Tengzhou1 founding

  Co-founder and legal representative of Galbot (Galaxy General), bringing industrial-robotics hardware and mass-production experience from ABB's Shanghai robotic...

  Founded Galbot

• Liu Guoqing1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Momenta Global (HKEX: 6880), a Chinese autonomous driving company. Raised 52M in Hong Kong IPO. Valued at 4.8B. Backed by GM and Tencent.

  Founded Momenta Global

• Dr Yandong Eric Guo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AI2 Robotics, one of China's rare experts combining deep capabilities in AI and intelligent robotics. Commercializing AlphaBot 2 at $2.8B val...

  Founded AI2 Robotics

• Keenan Wyrobek1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO / Head of Product & Engineering of Zipline; previously co-founded the Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage (PR2 robot, ROS) and the PR1...

  Founded Zipline

• Keenan Wyrobek1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO, and Product Architect of Zipline (founded 2014). Leads perception-based autonomy and new product teams. PhD in Robotics from Stanford Universit...

  Founded Zipline

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Zipline; previously founded Romotive. AB in Economics & Biotechnology from Harvard.

  Founded Zipline

• Ryan Oksenhorn1 founding

  Co-founder of Zipline; previously at Romotive. BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Zipline

• Will Hetzler1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO of Zipline (departed ~2021); previously a consultant at Oliver Wyman. AB from Harvard.

  Founded Zipline

• Yu Hao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Dreame Technology, founded in 2017. Built the Suzhou-based home robotics company with backing from Xiaomi, raising 63M in Series C.

  Founded Dreame Technology

• Eric Schmidt1 founding

  Former Google CEO who launched Perennial Autonomy (originally as White Stork) in 2023 to develop AI-enabled loitering munitions and counter-drone systems.

  Founded Perennial Autonomy

• Tom Mueller1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Impulse Space (founded 2021). SpaceX employee #1 (hired 2002 by Elon Musk from TRW). VP of Propulsion Engineering and later CTO of Propulsion...

  Founded Impulse Space

• David Moloney1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Movidius; previously led chip architecture for the Myriad VPU product line.

  Founded Movidius

• Sean Mitchell1 founding

  Co-founder of Movidius in 2005, served as CEO before transitioning to chairman; later co-founded Provizio, an automotive safety sensor company.

  Founded Movidius

• Jagdeep Singh1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur who previously founded QuantumScape (solid-state battery company) and Infinera (telecom equipment). Founded Rhoda AI to bring video-predicti...

  Founded Rhoda AI

• David Benhaim1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Markforged, developing the technology behind the first carbon fiber and metal 3D printers.

  Founded Markforged

• Gregory Mark1 founding

  Founder of Markforged, invented the first carbon fiber 3D printer. Previously served as CEO before becoming Chairman.

  Founded Markforged

• Tang Sihua1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Leju Robotics (乐聚机器人, founded 2016), Shenzhen-based bipedal and humanoid robot company making the KUAVO and Robbie robots. Previously a gradu...

  Founded Leju Robotics

• Ali Agha1 founding

  Founder and CEO of FieldAI (2023). Spent nearly a decade leading the Autonomous and Robotics systems division at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including bui...

  Founded Field AI

• Andrew Barry1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Generalist AI (2024). Former engineer at Boston Dynamics. Leads technical architecture for Generalist AI's cross-robot foundation model an...

  Founded Generalist AI

• Andy Zeng1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Generalist AI (2024). Former research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-authored foundational models for physical intelligence ...

  Founded Generalist AI

• Huang Zehua1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Zeron, a Chinese electric heavy-duty truck startup. Former co-founder of TuSimple. Raised 00M B2 round, turned operating cash flow positive Q...

  Founded Zeron

• Pete Florence1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI (2024). Former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind; led research behind RT-2 (robotic control from vision-language ...

  Founded Generalist AI

• Samuel Au1 founding

  Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Founder & CEO of Cornerstone Robotics. Director of the Multiscale Medical Robotics Center (MRC) at InnoHK. ...

  Founded Cornerstone Robotics

• Boris Sofman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader. Building autonomous systems for construction.

  Founded Bedrock Robotics

• Kevin Peterson1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader.

  Founded Bedrock Robotics

• Brian Raduenz1 founding

  Founder and Executive Chairman of AEVEX Aerospace. U.S. Air Force Academy graduate who built AEVEX into the largest U.S. drone supplier to Ukraine. Transitioned...

  Founded AEVEX Aerospace

• Craig Piggott1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Halter, the cattle virtual-fencing and smart-collar company; grew up on a New Zealand dairy farm.

  Founded Halter

• Elram Goren1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Fabric (formerly CommonSense Robotics), the robotic micro-fulfillment company founded in 2015.

  Founded Fabric

• Amit Dror1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of Nano Dimension, the additive electronics company.

  Founded Nano Dimension

• Dagi Ben-Noon1 founding

  Nano Dimension co-founder who later became CEO of Inspira.

  Founded Nano Dimension

• Simon Fried1 founding

  Co-founded Nano Dimension and helped grow it from a bootstrapped startup into a NASDAQ-listed tech unicorn.

  Founded Nano Dimension

• Deng Taihua1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics); a former Huawei executive who co-founded the company in 2023 and leads it as chief executive.

  Founded AgiBot

• Peng Zhihui1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics, founded 2023), heading its X-Lab; online as 'Zhihui Jun', a former member of Huawei's 'Genius Youth' program kno...

  Founded AgiBot

• Yan Weixin1 founding

  Co-founder of AgiBot; an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Mechanical Engineering and chief scientist at the Shanghai AI Laborato...

  Founded AgiBot

• Zhang Bo1 founding

  Co-founder of DiDi and CEO of DiDi Autonomous Driving. Raised 81M in Series D, total .55B. Launching robotaxi pilot in UAE and developing L4 with GAC Aion.

  Founded Didi Autonomous Driving

• Yang Jianbo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Astribot (Stardust Intelligence, founded 2023), Shenzhen humanoid robot startup. Made viral video of fast-moving humanoid in 2023. Previously...

  Founded Stardust Intelligence

• Julian Ma1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Inceptio Technology, leading Chinese autonomous trucking. Targeting mid-2028 for L4 commercialization with 78M in total funding.

  Founded Inceptio Technology

• David Golden1 founding

  Co-founder of Standard Bots.

  Founded Standard Bots

• Evan Beard1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of Standard Bots. Leading advocate for American robotics manufacturing and national robotics policy.

  Founded Standard Bots

• James Cordle1 founding

  Co-founder of Standard Bots.

  Founded Standard Bots

• Matanya Horowitz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AMP Robotics (Denver, CO), a pioneer in AI-guided robotic systems for recycling and waste sorting. Founded 2015. PhD Caltech (control & dy...

  Founded AMP Robotics

• Don Gao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Positec Group, established in 1994 in Suzhou, China. Built Positec from an OEM tool manufacturer into a global leader in robotic lawn mowers ...

  Founded WORX Landroid

• He Tao1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of CowaRobot. Holds degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

  Founded Cowarobot

• He Xiaopeng1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of XPeng, championing its repositioning as a global embodied-intelligence company; set the public goal of mass-producing the IRON humanoid by e...

  Founded Xpeng AeroHT

• Igino Cafiero1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bear Flag Robotics. Led development of autonomous driving technology for farm tractors, acquired by John Deere for 50M.

  Founded Bear Flag Robotics

• Joe Lonsdale1 founding

  Co-founder of Epirus, managing partner of 8VC, and co-founder of Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Epirus

• Zhaopeng Chen1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Agile Robots. Completed his doctorate at DLR developing a highly dexterous robotic hand. Leading the first unicorn in the robotics field.

  Founded Agile Robots

• Albert Liu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Kneron. PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Previously worked at Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics R&D, MStar, and Wireless Information. Hol...

  Founded Kneron

• Chen Jianyu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RobotEra (founded 2023), maker of the XBot-L and L7 humanoids; an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinar...

  Founded Robot Era

• Jianyu Chen1 founding

  Founder of RobotEra, a Beijing-based humanoid robot company incubated by Tsinghua University. Founded in 2023. Raised over 00M led by SF Group, HSG, and IDG Cap...

  Founded Robot Era

• Steve Simoni1 founding

  Steve Simoni is Co-Founder and President of Allen Control Systems. A Navy veteran who previously co-founded Bbot with Mike Wior.

  Founded Allen Control Systems

• Tom Oxley1 founding

  Dr. Thomas Oxley is an Australian-born physician, neuroscientist, and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Synchron, a brain-computer interface...

  Founded Synchron

• Tony Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics. Stanford PhD. Building Memo, an autonomous home robot that learns through ACT-1 foundation model. Raised 00M total at .15...

  Founded Sunday

• Frank Chang1 founding

  Co-founder of Kneron. Wintek Chair and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Former President of National Chiao Tung University (20...

  Founded Kneron

• Xu Wenda1 founding

  Carnegie Mellon robotics PhD who pioneered the world's first commercial autonomous ride-hailing. Leads technical R&D at Anyverse Dynamics.

  Founded Anyverse Dynamics

• Zhang Yufeng1 founding

  Former VP and President of the Automotive Business Unit at Horizon Robotics, where he led the intelligent driving business to No. 1 market share for domestic AD...

  Founded Anyverse Dynamics

• Tom Markusic1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Firefly Aerospace (2014-2022); now board member and Chief Technical Advisor. PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princ...

  Founded Firefly Aerospace

• Brad Squicciarini1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Coco Robotics. BS in Computer Science from UCLA.

  Founded Coco Robotics

• Zach Rash1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Coco Robotics; started the company out of UCLA.

  Founded Coco Robotics

• Felix Zhang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics (Zhang Tao; founded 2016), a leading commercial service-robot maker deployed in 80+ countries; previously founde...

  Founded Pudu Robotics

• Nikita Rudin1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics, a Zurich-based robotics intelligence startup building the autonomy stack for humanoid robots. Raised 0M Series A led by ...

  Founded Flexion Robotics

• Guo Renjie1 founding

  Former China president of Dreame who founded Zeroth (Suzhou JoyIn Intelligent Technology) in 2024 to build interactive companion robots. Forbes 30 Under 30 hono...

  Founded Zeroth

• Tan Limin1 founding

  Founder and chairman of Westwell (founded 2016, Shanghai), the AI logistics company behind the WellOcean smart-port platform and Qomolo autonomous new-energy lo...

  Founded Westwell

• Jiang Zheyuan1 founding

  Tsinghua University electronics engineering dropout who founded Noetix Robotics in 2023 at age 25, leading the company to over 1,000 robot orders in two years.

  Founded Noetix Robotics

• Zhang Shipu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Noetix Robotics, partnering with Jiang Zheyuan to build the company from a rented apartment with ~100K RMB in initial capital.

  Founded Noetix Robotics

• Ajay Agrawal1 founding

  Co-founder and board director of Sanctuary AI; founder of the Creative Destruction Lab and a professor at the University of Toronto Rotman School.

  Founded Sanctuary AI

• Olivia Norton1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and CPO of Sanctuary AI; previously led the Vancouver AGI group at Kindred AI.

  Founded Sanctuary AI

• Ren Guowen1 founding

  Co-founder of EngineAI; public-facing on the company's mass-production strategy and its 2025 funding push toward a $1B valuation.

  Founded EngineAI

• Siler Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Beatbot, building AI-powered pool cleaning robots. Led the company to 85% market share in premium pool cleaning and hundreds of millions in r...

  Founded Beatbot

• Wang Fei1 founding

  Founder and CEO of EngineAI (Shenzhen, founded 2023). Known for the SE01 humanoid robot demonstration that went viral for fluid bipedal locomotion. Building hum...

  Founded EngineAI

• Zhao Tongyang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics (founded 2023), maker of the SE01 and PM01 humanoids; previously ran a quadruped-robot venture and co-founded XPen...

  Founded EngineAI

• Suzanne Gildert1 founding

  Co-founder and former Chief Science Officer / CTO of Sanctuary AI; departed in 2024 to found Nirvanic. Previously at D-Wave Systems.

  Founded Sanctuary AI

• Buck Jordan1 founding

  Co-founder of Miso Robotics; served as founding CEO then transitioned to Chairman & President (2020) to focus on fundraising. Led Miso from launch to public lis...

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Carlo Mondavi1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Farming Officer of Monarch Tractor; a fourth-generation winegrower (Mondavi family) and founder of RAEN Winery. Monarch collapsed in April ...

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• David Zito1 founding

  Co-founder and founding CEO of Miso Robotics, the kitchen-robotics company (Flippy) founded in 2016 by Caltech engineers.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• James Jordan1 founding

  Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Mark Schwager1 founding

  Co-founder and former President of Monarch Tractor; previously led Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory build and Fremont operations planning, and worked at Zoox and Rome...

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Praveen Penmetsa1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Monarch Tractor (autonomous electric tractors); previously co-founder/CEO of Motivo Engineering. Monarch collapsed in April 2026, with Cat...

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Robert Anderson1 founding

  Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Ryan Sinnet1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Miso Robotics; a Caltech engineer who co-founded the company in 2016.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Zachary Omohundro1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Monarch Tractor; previously at Motivo Engineering (autonomous-mining robotics). Monarch collapsed in April 2026.

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Chris Baker1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building the Terafab automated solar panel construction platform. Founded in 2019 in Berkeley, California.

  Founded Terabase Energy

• Kevin Sartori1 founding

  Co-founder of Auterion, established the company in 2017 alongside Lorenz Meier.

  Founded Auterion

• Lorenz Meier1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Auterion, creator of Pixhawk open-source autopilot platform. Leading Auterion's mission to provide AI-powered autonomous systems software for...

  Founded Auterion

• Matt Campbell1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building digital and automation (Terafab) tools for utility-scale solar; a solar-industry veteran who joined SunPower in ...

  Founded Terabase Energy

• Sean Hsu1 founding

  CEO and founder of Botrista, former Tesla engineer. Leading the company's automated beverage platform with 36M+ in funding.

  Founded Botrista

• Bernt Bornich1 founding

  Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics, founded 2014), a Norwegian humanoid robot company backed by OpenAI.

  Founded 1X Technologies

• Bernt Øivind Børnich1 founding

  Norwegian roboticist who founded 1X Technologies (originally Halodi Robotics) in 2014 to build general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.

  Founded 1X Technologies

• Eugene Izhikevich1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Brain Corp, developing the BrainOS autonomous navigation platform deployed at 2,000+ Walmart and Sam's Club locations.

  Founded Brain Corp

• Alex Liao1 founding

  Co-founded Machina Labs in 2019 and serves as CTO; previously research engineer at NASA JPL and SpaceX.

  Founded Machina Labs

• Edward Mehr1 founding

  Co-founded Machina Labs in 2019 and serves as CEO; material scientist with a background from Tesla's manufacturing team.

  Founded Machina Labs

• Chris Walti1 founding

  Former lead of the Tesla team that became Optimus (departed 2022); co-founded and is CEO of warehouse-automation company Mytra.

  Founded Mytra

• James Ives1 founding

  Founder and CEO of XOCEAN (2017), an Irish marine robotics company operating uncrewed surface vessels for ocean data collection across offshore energy and civil...

  Founded XOcean

• Song Ki-young1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur and computer vision expert. Founded SuaLab (AI-based visual inspection for manufacturing), which was acquired by Cognex for ~$200M in 2019 —...

  Founded Holiday Robotics

• Filip Lilja1 founding

  Co-founder of Einride.

  Founded Einride

• Linnea Kornehed1 founding

  Co-founder of Einride.

  Founded Einride

• Robert Falck1 founding

  Founder and Executive Chairman of Einride (Swedish electric/autonomous trucking); CEO from founding until May 2025. Previously Director of Manufacturing Enginee...

  Founded Einride

• Abraham Bachrach1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Skydio; previously at Google[x] Project Wing; MIT robotics PhD (under Nicholas Roy).

  Founded Skydio

• Adam Bry1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Skydio; previously an early member of Google[x] Project Wing. SM in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.

  Founded Skydio

• Alex Gu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence (Gu Jie); founded the Shanghai company in 2015, leading it from rehabilitation and exoskeleton robotics into humanoids (...

  Founded Fourier Intelligence

• Alex Ren1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence (Shanghai, founded 2015). Started with exoskeleton rehabilitation devices (ExoMotus line), expanded into general-purp...

  Founded Fourier Intelligence

• Matt Donahoe1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Skydio; previously at PocketGems and the MIT Media Lab.

  Founded Skydio

• Zen Koh1 founding

  Co-founder and Deputy Group CEO / Global CEO of Fourier Intelligence; previously ran Hocoma's Asia-Pacific operations before helping build out Fourier's interna...

  Founded Fourier Intelligence

• Simon Kalouche1 founding

  Founded Nimble Robotics in 2019 and serves as CEO; completed PhD research in robotics at CMU's Robotics Institute, focusing on soft gripper manipulation.

  Founded Nimble Robotics

• Byron Boots1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Overland AI, a defense autonomy startup developing off-road autonomous vehicles. Leading ULTRA UGV production and Pentagon contracts.

  Founded Overland AI

• Jianxiong Xiao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AutoX; led China's first fully-driverless robotaxi fleet (Shenzhen) before AutoX wound down its robotaxi business (~2024) and pivoted to priv...

  Founded AutoX

• Luo Bingrong1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Geek+ (GeekPlus, founded 2015), Beijing-based AMR and robotic logistics company. Geek+ is one of the world's largest AMR manufacturers, se...

  Founded Geek+

• Wang Helong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Galaxea AI (founded 2023), Beijing-based humanoid robot startup making the A1 general-purpose humanoid. Previously a robotics researcher and ...

  Founded Galaxea AI

• Xiao Jianxiong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AutoX (founded 2016), a Chinese autonomous vehicle company. Also known as Professor X. Formerly computer vision professor at Princeton Univer...

  Founded AutoX

• Yong Zheng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Geek+, global leader in AMR manufacturing. 45% CAGR from 2021-2024, 74.6% customer repurchase rate.

  Founded Geek+

• David Jiang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of VITURE. Previously spent time at Harvard and Google, where he was one of the first people to work on Google Glass.

  Founded VITURE

• Samir Menon1 founding

  Founded Dexterity in 2017 and serves as CEO; completed PhD in computer science at Stanford, focusing on robotics and machine learning.

  Founded Dexterity

• Britaldo Hernandez1 founding

  Cuban-born automation engineer who co-founded Solinftec in 2007 in Aracatuba, Brazil, and leads the agricultural-AI/robotics company as CEO.

  Founded Solinftec

• Wang Jianchen1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Edge Medical Robotics. Leading industrialization of high-end surgical robotics in China.

  Founded Edge Medical Robotics

• Tang Mu1 founding

  Former Xiaomi VP of Ecosystem Chain and ex-Tencent CDC General Manager with 25 years of product-making experience. Founded Yingzhi XBOT in 2022 to build caterin...

  Founded Yingzhi XBOT

• Fernand Badano1 founding

  Co-founder and Managing Director of Quantum Surgical, previously worked at Medtech SA.

  Founded Quantum Surgical

• Lucien Blondel1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Quantum Surgical, previously worked with Bertin Nahum at Medtech SA.

  Founded Quantum Surgical

• Bryan Webb1 founding

  Co-founder of Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. University of Waterloo mechatronics engineering graduate.

  Founded OTTO Motors

• Eric Litman1 founding

  Four-time entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Aescape. Bringing together expertise from Amazon, Apple, Fitbit for AI-powered robotic massage.

  Founded Aescape

• Alessio Del Bue1 founding

  Alessio Del Bue is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Andrea Pagnin1 founding

  Andrea Pagnin is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Daniele Pucci1 founding

  Daniele Pucci is the CEO and Co-founder of Generative Bionics. He was previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he led the hum...

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Davide Rota1 founding

  Davide Rota is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Jeffrey Libshutz1 founding

  Jeffrey Libshutz is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Marco Maggiali1 founding

  Marco Maggiali is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Ali Kashani1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Serve Robotics; previously VP of Special Projects and head of 'X' at Postmates, where Serve originated. PhD in Robotics from UBC...

  Founded Serve Robotics

• Dmitry Demeshchuk1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Software at Serve Robotics; a founding engineer of Postmates X.

  Founded Serve Robotics

• MJ Burk Chun1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Product and Design at Serve Robotics; previously a director at Postmates and product leader at Anki and Electronic Arts.

  Founded Serve Robotics

• Brad Bogolea1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics, maker of the Tally retail inventory robot; founded the company in 2014.

  Founded Simbe Robotics

• Mirza Akbar Shah1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Simbe Robotics; previously an engineer at Willow Garage, part of the robotics talent diaspora that lab seeded.

  Founded Simbe Robotics

• Jeff Gee1 founding

  Co-founder of Simbe Robotics, the retail-inventory-robotics company behind the Tally robot.

  Founded Simbe Robotics

• Nelson Mills1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Vatn Systems. Leading the company's mission to build affordable, scalable autonomous underwater vehicles for naval defense.

  Founded Vatn Systems

• Giuseppe Maria Prisco1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Medical Microinstruments (MMI; founded 2015 near Pisa), maker of the Symani microsurgery robot.

  Founded Medical Microinstruments (MMI)

• Hannah Teichmann1 founding

  Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), maker of the Symani Surgical System for microsurgery.

  Founded Medical Microinstruments (MMI)

• Massimiliano Simi1 founding

  Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), the robotic-microsurgery company behind the Symani system.

  Founded Medical Microinstruments (MMI)

• Olaf Hichwa1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Neros; previously founded flight-controller maker OlaFPV.

  Founded Neros

• Soren Monroe-Anderson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Neros (defense FPV drones); a former competitive drone-racing pilot (2020 MultiGP World Champion) who founded the company at ~19. No colle...

  Founded Neros

• Brian Joseph1 founding

  Co-founder of Vitestro (founded 2017), the autonomous robotic phlebotomy company.

  Founded Vitestro

• Fady Khater1 founding

  Co-founded Avidbots in 2014 and serves as CEO; leads the company's autonomous floor-cleaning robot platform.

  Founded Avidbots

• Pablo Molina1 founding

  Co-founded Avidbots in 2014 and serves as CTO; leads robotics and AI engineering.

  Founded Avidbots

• Toon Overbeeke1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Vitestro (founded 2017), the Dutch company developing an autonomous robotic blood-drawing (phlebotomy) device.

  Founded Vitestro

• Yongjae Kim1 founding

  Co-CEO and CTO of WIRobotics, developing the ALLEX humanoid robot with ultra-low-friction actuation and whole-body compliance.

  Founded WIRobotics

• Younbaek Lee1 founding

  Co-CEO of WIRobotics, building the ALLEX humanoid robot platform in Seoul. Leading the company's physical AI development ecosystem.

  Founded WIRobotics

• Arshan Poursohi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Third Wave Automation (autonomous forklifts, founded 2018); previously director of engineering at Toyota Research Institute and a software...

  Founded Third Wave Automation

• Lael Odhner1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. Developed the iRobot-Harvard-Yale (iH...

  Founded RightHand Robotics

• Yaro Tenzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). Originally served as CEO from founding through early 2023, then stepped back to Chairman ...

  Founded RightHand Robotics

• Leif Jentoft1 founding

  Co-founder and former Chief Strategy Officer of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). PhD in Bioengineering from Harvard University (Robert Howe lab)...

  Founded RightHand Robotics

• Soroush Karimzadeh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Novarc Technologies, the Vancouver welding-robotics company behind the Spool Welding Robot.

  Founded Novarc Technologies

• Andrew Liang1 founding

  Co-founder and lead robotics engineer at Built Robotics; previously at NASA JPL and Airware. Engineering background from Caltech.

  Founded Built Robotics

• Austin Gray1 founding

  Co-founder of Blue Water Autonomy (2024). Former Amazon Robotics engineer. Contributes autonomy and robotics systems expertise to Blue Water's unmanned vessel p...

  Founded Blue Water Autonomy

• Noah Ready-Campbell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Built Robotics (autonomous construction equipment); previously a product manager at Google and co-founder of Twice (acquired by eBay in 2015)...

  Founded Built Robotics

• Scott N. Miller1 founding

  Co-founder of Blue Water Autonomy (2024). Former U.S. Navy officer. Brings maritime operations and naval systems expertise to Blue Water's autonomous ship devel...

  Founded Blue Water Autonomy

• Nicolas Chee1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ForwardX Robotics, a Beijing-based AMR company. Former Oracle VP who built ForwardX into a global leader in vision-based autonomous intralogi...

  Founded ForwardX Robotics

• Andrew Ashur1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, a Y Combinator-backed company building modular AI-powered drones and robots for exterior cleaning. Named fastest-growing robotics...

  Founded Lucid Bots

• Dustin Freckleton1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Happy Health (Happy Ring); a physician (MD).

  Founded Happy Health

• Sean Rad1 founding

  Co-founder of Happy Health. Founder of Tinder. Leading Happy Health's smart ring wellness wearable with 0M Series A from ARCH Venture Partners.

  Founded Happy Health

• Ossur Kristinsson1 founding

  Founder of Ossur (1971), the Icelandic prosthetics and orthotics company; an amputee and prosthetist who developed the Iceross silicone prosthetic-socket liner....

  Founded Ossur

• Össur Kristinsson1 founding

  Icelandic amputee and prosthetist who founded Össur in 1971 after developing the world's first silicone prosthetic liner (Iceross).

  Founded Ossur

• Bercan Kilic1 founding

  Founder and CEO of microagi. Former Formula 1 engineer at Red Bull Racing; founded microagi in late 2025 to build a robotics deployment layer for industrial man...

  Founded microagi

• Gilbert Gagnaire1 founding

  Founder and CEO of EasyMile, the French autonomous-shuttle company behind the EZ10; previously co-founded fintech firm Fermat.

  Founded EasyMile

• Michelle Lee1 founding

  Michelle Lee, PhD is the founder and CEO of Medra, building the first Physical AI Scientist platform. She leads the company's vision of integrating AI scientifi...

  Founded Medra

• Gajan Mohanarajah1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rapyuta Robotics, spun out of ETH Zurich. Leading cloud robotics platform development in Tokyo.

  Founded Rapyuta Robotics

• Kaname Hayashi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GROOVE X (founded 2018), maker of the LOVOT companion robot; previously Pepper product leader at SoftBank Robotics and a product-planning man...

  Founded Groove X

• Erik Nieves1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics in San Antonio, Texas, developing AI vision software for robotic parcel handling.

  Founded Plus One Robotics

• Hendrik Kramer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of FERNRIDE (spun out of TU Munich in 2019 with Maximilian Fisser and Jean-Michael Georg); makes tele-operated/autonomous electric terminal t...

  Founded FERNRIDE

• Jean-Michael Georg1 founding

  Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous-electric terminal-tractor company.

  Founded FERNRIDE

• Maximilian Fisser1 founding

  Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous yard-truck company.

  Founded FERNRIDE

• John Burd1 founding

  Co-founded Dexcom in 1999 and led the development of the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitoring system.

  Founded Dexcom

• Scott Glenn1 founding

  Co-founded Dexcom in 1999.

  Founded Dexcom

• Stephen Klein1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hyphen Technologies, developing AI-powered automated makeline systems for restaurant kitchens.

  Founded Hyphen

• Yossi Bar1 founding

  Founder and CEO of LEM Surgical. Leading development of next-generation robotic surgical systems for hard tissue and spine surgery.

  Founded LEM Surgical

• Eyal Cohen1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Humble Robotics. Career dedicated to building electric and autonomous vehicle technology.

  Founded Humble Robotics

• Curtis Garner1 founding

  Co-founder of Verdant Robotics, bringing deep farming experience to the precision spray-application ag-robotics company.

  Founded Verdant Robotics

• Gabe Sibley1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Verdant Robotics; an AI and robotics researcher (SLAM/perception) who co-founded the precision-agriculture company behind the SharpShooter wi...

  Founded Verdant Robotics

• Mostafa ElSayed1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Automata (Automata Technologies), the London lab-automation company behind the LINQ benchtop platform.

  Founded Automata

• Suryansh Chandra1 founding

  Co-founder of Automata, the London lab-automation robotics company.

  Founded Automata

• Jehyuk Kim1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of CarbonSix. AI and robotics researcher with academic experience from MIT, Yale University, Seoul National University, and KAIST. Leads d...

  Founded CarbonSix

• Tae-yeon Terry Moon1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of CarbonSix. Previously co-founded SUALAB, a South Korean industrial AI vision company acquired by Cognex in 2019 for approximately 60M, whe...

  Founded CarbonSix

• Kang Ki-hyuk1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Neubility. Serving as acting CEO while founder Lee Sang-min completes mandatory military service. Leading the company's expansion into hum...

  Founded Neubility

• Lee Sang-min1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Neubility. Founded the company in 2017 at age 19 while at Yonsei University. Former researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Forbes 30...

  Founded Neubility

• Daniel Maturana1 founding

  Daniel Maturana is a co-founder of Gather AI, bringing expertise in deep learning and computer vision to the warehouse inventory drone platform.

  Founded Gather AI

• Michael Norcia1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Pyka (founded 2017), maker of large autonomous electric aircraft for agricultural spraying (Pelican Spray) and cargo.

  Founded Pyka

• Sankalp Arora1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Gather AI (founded 2018 out of Carnegie Mellon), maker of AI-powered autonomous warehouse inventory drones; previously worked on DARPA aut...

  Founded Gather AI

• Pramod Ghadge1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Unbox Robotics in Pune, India. Started the company at age 29, building warehouse robotics sortation systems.

  Founded Unbox Robotics

• Marc Wietfeld1 founding

  Marc Wietfeld is co-founder and CEO of ARX Robotics, a German defense technology company developing autonomous UGVs. He is a former German Army officer who foun...

  Founded ARX Robotics

• Alon Kosowsky-Sachs1 founding

  MIT researcher and robotics builder who co-founded Tutor Intelligence. Known at MIT for building a DIY segway robot. Leads technical development of the Ti0 VLA ...

  Founded Tutor Intelligence

• Josh Gruenstein1 founding

  MIT graduate and robotics enthusiast who co-founded Tutor Intelligence in 2021. Built robots as a hobby since age 8 and developed the fleet-scale learning appro...

  Founded Tutor Intelligence

• Pal Johan From1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Saga Robotics (founded 2016), maker of the Thorvald autonomous farm robot; a robotics professor specializing in agricultural automation.

  Founded Saga Robotics

• Lars Grimstad1 founding

  Co-founder of Saga Robotics with Dr. Pal Johan From. Co-developed the Thorvald autonomous robot platform.

  Founded Saga Robotics

• Carl Allendorph1 founding

  Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Cedric Jeanty1 founding

  Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Kyle Cobb1 founding

  Co-founder, president, and CFO of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), maker of robotic strawberry- and apple-harvesting systems.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Marc Grossman1 founding

  Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Ken Goldberg1 founding

  Co-founder of Ambi Robotics, UC Berkeley professor and BCNM faculty. Pioneering AI-powered parcel sorting robotics.

  Founded Ambi Robotics

• Raffaello D'Andrea1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verity, a Swiss company developing autonomous inventory drones. Started the technology in 2014 as a spin-out from ETH Zurich. Raised 6M to...

  Founded Verity

• Alex Wyatt1 founding

  Founder and CEO of August Robotics, established in 2017, with Greek family roots from Kastellorizo.

  Founded August Robotics

• Eric Carreel1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Withings; a serial French hardware entrepreneur (Inventel, Sculpteo).

  Founded Withings

• Josh Merel1 founding

  Robot locomotion expert and former Google DeepMind researcher; co-authored Nature paper on AI-powered virtual rat. Previously worked at CTRL-labs, which was acq...

  Founded Fauna Robotics

• Justin Cyrus1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost (January 2017), Golden CO. Builds autonomous lunar rovers including MAPP and the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) selected by NASA. ...

  Founded Lunar Outpost

• Rob Cochran1 founding

  Former CTRL-labs and Goldman Sachs executive; co-founded Fauna Robotics in 2024 to build approachable humanoid robots for human spaces.

  Founded Fauna Robotics

• Sho Nakanose1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GITAI (2016), a Tokyo-based space robotics startup developing general-purpose work robots for in-orbit assembly, inspection, and servicing. F...

  Founded GITAI

• Cedric Hutchings1 founding

  Co-founder of Withings and its CEO (2008-2016); later VP Digital Health at Nokia; now co-founder and CEO of Outsight.

  Founded Withings

• Fred Potter1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Withings (hardware / product engineering).

  Founded Withings

• Ingo Seebach1 founding

  Founder of Dedrone, established the counter-drone company in 2014. Led the company through multiple funding rounds and its acquisition by Axon in 2024.

  Founded Dedrone

• Rodney Brooks1 founding

  Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics); Panasonic Professor Emeritus at MIT; co-founder of iRobot. Pioneer of behavior-bas...

  Founded Rethink Robotics

• Hu Xinyi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Boonray Technology, launched the company in July 2015 with former members of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Intelligent Robotics Laborator...

  Founded Boonray Technology

• Yangyang Yang1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Boonray Technology, PhD in Robotics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. First Prize in Shanghai robotics competitions. Leads Boonray's aut...

  Founded Boonray Technology

• Andrew Bate1 founding

  Andrew Bate is co-founder and CEO of SwarmFarm Robotics. He and his wife Jocie founded the company in 2012 near Emerald, Queensland, to create robotic technolog...

  Founded SwarmFarm Robotics

• Joe Wolfel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terradepth. Leading the development of autonomous ocean-mapping submersibles.

  Founded Terradepth

• Judson Kauffman1 founding

  Co-founder of Terradepth.

  Founded Terradepth

• Saman Farid1 founding

  CEO and founder of Formic, providing robotics-as-a-service to mid-market manufacturers. Has raised over 0M in funding.

  Founded Formic

• Nadav Bocher1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Greeneye Technology (founded 2017), the AI precision targeted-spraying company; began working on pesticide overuse while serving as a comb...

  Founded Greeneye Technology

• Nic Radford1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Persona AI. Building purpose-built industrial humanoid robots for shipyards and heavy industry.

  Founded Persona AI

• Bibhrajit Halder1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SafeAI, the autonomous mining/construction retrofit company (acquired by Pronto); previously worked on autonomy at Apple, Caterpillar, and Fo...

  Founded SafeAI

• Elvis Nava1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Mimic Robotics. ETH Zurich researcher focused on foundation models for robotic manipulation and generative AI for physical AI.

  Founded Mimic Robotics

• Stefan Weirich1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mimic Robotics. ETH Zurich researcher turned entrepreneur leading the company's go-to-market and business strategy.

  Founded Mimic Robotics

• Stephan-Daniel Gravert1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic Robotics. Leads hardware design including the Mimic Hand M1 and Mimic Wearable U1 exoskeleton.

  Founded Mimic Robotics

• Anthony DiMare1 founding

  Co-founder of Bedrock Ocean Exploration (2020). Authored the founding Medium post introducing the company and its mission to map, monitor, and understand the se...

  Founded Bedrock Ocean

• Charles Chiau1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Ocean Exploration (2020). Leads the company in building autonomous underwater vehicles for commercial seafloor mapping, offshore w...

  Founded Bedrock Ocean

• Dor Skuler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics (founded 2016), maker of ElliQ, a social companion robot for older adults. Previously a serial entrepreneur and executi...

  Founded Intuition Robotics

• Lior Wolf1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Mentee Robotics (MenteeBot); a Tel Aviv University professor who was previously a research scientist and director at Facebook AI Research.

  Founded Mentee Robotics

• Shai Shalev-Shwartz1 founding

  Co-founder and chief scientist of Mentee Robotics; concurrently CTO of Mobileye and a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  Founded Mentee Robotics

• Jens Riegger1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of fruitcore robotics GmbH in Konstanz. Previously worked on robotics research projects before founding the company in 2017.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Manuel Frey1 founding

  Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH. Worked with Jens Riegger on robotics research before starting the company in 2017.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Patrick Zimmermann1 founding

  Co-founder and CFO of fruitcore robotics GmbH, responsible for finance and business development.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Tim Schmiedl1 founding

  Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Charlie Andersen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Burro (formerly Augean Robotics). Previously worked at CNHi and in autonomy M&A before founding the collaborative farm robot company.

  Founded Burro

• Damon Henry1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Asylon Robotics, leading robotic perimeter security solutions with drone-in-a-box technology.

  Founded Asylon Robotics

• Mehul Nariyawala1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Matic Robots in San Francisco. Developing privacy-first AI-powered robot vacuums with on-device mapping.

  Founded Matician

• Pathak1 founding

  Founder of Foundation Future Industries, building the Phantom MK1 humanoid robot for factory and military use. Secured 4M in Pentagon contracts and plans to bui...

  Founded Foundation

• Chen Rosen1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of AIR, responsible for the technical architecture of the AIR ONE eVTOL platform.

  Founded AIR

• Marius Fehr1 founding

  Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the Zurich aerial-robotics company behind the Voliro T contact-inspection drone.

  Founded Voliro

• Mina Kamel1 founding

  Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the ETH Zurich spin-off making omnidirectional aerial NDT inspection drones; came from ETH's Autonomous Systems Lab.

  Founded Voliro

• Netanel Goldberg1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of AIR, overseeing operations and production.

  Founded AIR

• Rani Plaut1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AIR, leading the company since its founding in 2018.

  Founded AIR

• Alon Mozes1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot, founded 2009); previously a principal engineer at orthopedic-robotics pioneer MAKO Surgical.

  Founded Neocis

• Basil Weibel1 founding

  Co-founder of Wingtra (founded 2014), the ETH Zurich VTOL-survey-drone spin-off behind the WingtraOne.

  Founded Wingtra

• David Hansen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Westmag. Previously led motor supply-chain work at Weel with years of direct Chinese BLDC sourcing experience. University of Washington gr...

  Founded Westmag

• Jordan Sanders1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Westmag. Previously spent a decade in robotics with commercial leadership experience at Slip Robotics. Furman University graduate.

  Founded Westmag

• Juan Salcedo1 founding

  Co-founder of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot); previously a principal engineer at MAKO Surgical.

  Founded Neocis

• Maximilian Boosfeld1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Wingtra (founded 2014 as an ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab spin-off), maker of the WingtraOne VTOL mapping drone.

  Founded Wingtra

• Jan Žižka1 founding

  Jan Žižka is CEO and Co-Founder of Photoneo. He was a PhD student at Comenius University in Bratislava with expertise in machine vision and AI.

  Founded Photoneo

• Tom Stevens1 founding

  Tom Stevens founded Tombot in 2017 after his mother's progressive dementia necessitated rehoming her beloved pet dog. He previously built a legal automation sta...

  Founded Tombot

• Adam Burris1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Guardian Agriculture, developing autonomous eVTOL crop protection drones. First eVTOL-maker with FAA commercial operation approval.

  Founded Guardian Agriculture

• Anjali Jindal Naik1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Cartken; previously co-founded Saavn (acquired by Reliance Jio) and was a product operations manager at Google. BS from UNC Chapel Hill.

  Founded Cartken

• Anukool Lakhina1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of BurnBot, maker of remotely operated prescribed-burn and vegetation-management robots; previously founded big-data analytics firm Guavus. P...

  Founded BurnBot

• Biwei Huang1 founding

  Assistant Professor at UC San Diego and globally recognized researcher in causal discovery and machine learning. Creator of open-source tools Causal-Learn and C...

  Founded Aether AI

• Charles DuHadway1 founding

  Co-founder of Fox Robotics, the autonomous-forklift company acquired by Symbotic.

  Founded Fox Robotics

• Christian Bersch1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Cartken; previously a product manager at Google (and team lead of Area 120 Robotics) and a research engineer at Bosch. MSc from KIT.

  Founded Cartken

• Eric Adamson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017 with Tim Brackbill), maker of precision strawberry and table-grape harvesting robots; a Stanford engineer wit...

  Founded Tortuga AgTech

• Fred Parietti1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Multiply Labs. Founded in 2016 with the intuition that robotic manufacturing can fulfill personalized medicine.

  Founded Multiply Labs

• Jaisimha Rao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Niqo Robotics. Former BlackRock investment professional who managed billions during the 2008 financial crisis before returning to India to fo...

  Founded Niqo Robotics

• Jake Stelman1 founding

  Co-founder and VP at Cartken; previously a hardware engineer at Google[x] (Aquila UAV) and Google ATAP, and a software engineer at Facebook. BS in Mechanical En...

  Founded Cartken

• Jonas Witt1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Cartken; previously tech lead of Google's Bookbot (Area 120) and a senior engineer at Google[x] and Bosch. PhD in computer vision from Ham...

  Founded Cartken

• Ofir Schlam1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Taranis, the Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform using aerial imagery and AI.

  Founded Taranis

• Palaniswamy Rajan1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of SoftWear Automation, the SEWBOT garment-robotics company founded in 2012 by Georgia Tech scientists.

  Founded SoftWear Automation

• Peter Anderson-Sprecher1 founding

  Co-founder of Fox Robotics, maker of the FoxBot autonomous forklift / trailer loader-unloader (acquired by Symbotic).

  Founded Fox Robotics

• Saurabh Chandra1 founding

  CEO and founder of ATI Motors, developing autonomous mobile robots for factories and warehouses. Also announced the Sherpa Mecha manufacturing humanoid.

  Founded Ati Motors

• Waleed Haddad1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of BurnBot, the wildfire-prevention robotics company behind the RX prescribed-burn machine.

  Founded BurnBot

• Tim Brackbill1 founding

  Co-founder of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017), the precision fruit-harvesting robotics company acquired by Oishii.

  Founded Tortuga AgTech

• Jackie Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), maker of the Corvus One fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone.

  Founded Corvus Robotics

• Mohammed Kabir1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), the autonomous warehouse inventory-drone company.

  Founded Corvus Robotics

• Yaniv Maor1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Tevel Aerobotics, maker of flying autonomous fruit-picking robots; previously a senior manager at Israel Aerospace Industries.

  Founded Tevel Aerobotics

• Barney Wragg1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Karakuri. Previously worked at ARM alongside co-founder Simon Watt. Announced the company's wind-down in June 2023 via LinkedIn.

  Founded Karakuri

• Simon Watt1 founding

  Co-founder of Karakuri. Previously worked at ARM with co-founder Barney Wragg.

  Founded Karakuri

• Dylan Ng Terntzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LionsBot International, the Singapore-based commercial cleaning robotics company founded in 2018.

  Founded LionsBot

• Victor Dewulf1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Recycleye. Former Goldman Sachs banker, left to pursue AI-powered waste sorting. Imperial College London alumnus.

  Founded Recycleye

• Fabio Puglia1 founding

  Fabio Puglia is founder and president of Oversonic Robotics. He holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics (Astrophysics) from the University of Milan and previou...

  Founded Oversonic Robotics

• Paolo Denti1 founding

  Paolo Denti is CEO and co-founder of Oversonic Robotics. He previously served as CEO of Thun SpA (2008-2018) and held executive roles at Benetton Sportsystem an...

  Founded Oversonic Robotics

• JD Ambati1 founding

  Founder of EverestLabs (Jagadeesh Ambati), an AI and robotics company automating material recovery facilities via the RecycleOS platform. Over 20 years of exper...

  Founded EverestLabs

• Areeb Malik1 founding

  Co-founder of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously a software engineer at Facebook.

  Founded Glacier

• Cayden Pierce1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mentra, building an open-source OS for smart glasses. Previously built smart glasses prototypes with the developer community.

  Founded Mentra

• Patrick Thevoz1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Flyability, the leading indoor inspection drone company. Led the company to become the standard for remotely inspecting confined spaces in...

  Founded Flyability

• Rebecca Hu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously at Bain & Company.

  Founded Glacier

• Suhas Banshiwala1 founding

  Co-founder and Director of Aereo.

  Founded Aereo

• Vipul Singh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Aereo. Also co-founder and elected chairperson of the Drone Federation of India.

  Founded Aereo

• Zhao Chaohui1 founding

  CEO and founder of Youibot Robotics, PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University. Leading the Shenzhen-based AMR company with funding from SoftBank Ventures Asia.

  Founded Youibot Robotics

• Maitrai Maka1 founding

  Naval architect and founder of Rekise Marine with over a decade of experience in marine robotic systems. Leads the company's full-stack approach to autonomous v...

  Founded Rekise Marine

• Shekhar Mital1 founding

  Rear Admiral (Retd), former Chairman and Managing Director of Goa Shipyard Limited and former Director General of the Submarine Design Group. Oversees shipbuild...

  Founded Rekise Marine

• Daryl Lim1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Amity Robotics, a Thai startup building industrial robots. Raised M Seed led by East Ventures.

  Founded Amity Robotics

• Kevin Gibbon1 founding

  3rd-time venture founder. Previously founded Shyp (on-demand shipping, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies) and Airhouse (fulfillment startup). Shipped 10M...

  Founded Cytronic

• Scott Moen1 founding

  Technical and product leader with two decades of experience in robotics and logistics. Previously engineering leader at Airhouse alongside Kevin Gibbon.

  Founded Cytronic

• Kenny Lee1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Aigen, developing solar-powered autonomous agricultural robots for chemical-free farming.

  Founded Aigen

• Caroline Walerud1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AirForestry (registered 2020), a Swedish startup developing autonomous electric drones that thin forests from the air.

  Founded AirForestry

• Cyrille Kabbara1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Shark Robotics, the French maker of the Colossus firefighting and defense ground robot.

  Founded Shark Robotics

• Jack Xu1 founding

  Co-founder of Proception. University of Waterloo TRON alum, previously at Atlassian. YC W25 batch.

  Founded Proception

• Jay Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Proception. Former technical lead on Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program. Tesla sued Li in June 2025 alleging trade secret theft; the c...

  Founded Proception

• Mauritz Andersson1 founding

  Co-founder of AirForestry and a physicist; brought a research background in quantum optics and optical-systems engineering to the company's forestry drones.

  Founded AirForestry

• Olle Gelin1 founding

  Co-founder and forestry-technology expert at AirForestry, the Swedish electric-forestry-drone startup.

  Founded AirForestry

• Pham Quang Cuong1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Eureka Robotics. Associate Professor of Robotics at NTU (on leave), former JSPS Fellow at UTokyo, PhD in Neuroscience and Robotics.

  Founded Eureka Robotics

• Sneh Vaswani1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Miko, an Indian robotics company building AI-powered companion robots for children. Led the company through Series D funding.

  Founded Miko

• Assaf Chaprak1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur in advanced robotics and manufacturing, focused on building scalable systems for demanding real-world applications.

  Founded Shifters AI

• Ofer Ballin1 founding

  Former Colonel in the IDF with extensive leadership experience in operational adoption of breakthrough technologies. Previously held a business development role...

  Founded Shifters AI

• Dan Keene1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Aseon Labs. Previously co-founded Pushme (acquired by TIER-Dott), served as CBO at Superduper, led 20 markets at Deliveroo, and started in...

  Founded Aseon Labs

• George Kalligeros1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Aseon Labs. Previously founded Pushme (battery-swap network for micromobility, acquired by TIER-Dott), served as VP Hardware at TIER-Dott,...

  Founded Aseon Labs

• Nick Hegeman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of PaintJet (founded 2020 with Steve Wasilowski), maker of the Bravo robotic exterior-painting system.

  Founded PaintJet

• Steve Wasilowski1 founding

  Co-founder of PaintJet (founded 2020), the robotic exterior-painting company.

  Founded PaintJet

• Will Jackson1 founding

  Founder and Managing Director of Engineered Arts (founded 2004), the UK robotics company behind the Ameca humanoid and Mesmer animatronic robots. Based in Penry...

  Founded Engineered Arts

• Yossi Wolf1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur who founded temi to create a personal robot assistant for home and commercial use, inspired by his grandmother.

  Founded Temi

• Avi Abadi1 founding

  Israeli inventor and entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics (Ozmo window-cleaning robot).

  Founded Skyline Robotics

• Yaron Schwarcz1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics, maker of the Ozmo high-rise window-cleaning robot.

  Founded Skyline Robotics

• Derrick Morse1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Rugged Robotics. Professional Engineer who founded the construction layout automation company after experiencing jobsite pain points firsthan...

  Founded Rugged Robotics

• Billy Thalheimer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of REGENT Craft, developing the Seaglider wing-in-ground-effect electric maritime vehicle. Raised 4.5M, 0B+ order book.

  Founded REGENT Craft

• Brandon Contino1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Four Growers, the Pittsburgh ag-robotics company whose GR-series greenhouse robots autonomously harvest tomatoes and collect crop analytic...

  Founded Four Growers

• Yushan Chen1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Artly Coffee, PhD in computer science from Boston University. Developing AI-powered robotic barista kiosks.

  Founded Artly Coffee

• Conley Oster1 founding

  Co-founder of Raise Robotics (founded 2021), maker of a mobile-manipulator platform with dual UR arms for high-rise facade/curtain-wall installation.

  Founded Raise Robotics

• Gary Chen1 founding

  Gary Chen is Co-Founder and CEO of Raise Robotics. A construction and technology veteran who started the company in 2021 with Conley Oster.

  Founded Raise Robotics

• Gary Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of Raise Robotics (founded 2021), the construction facade-installation robotics company.

  Founded Raise Robotics

• Johnny Carni1 founding

  Founder and CEO of WaiV Robotics. Previously developed the technology under an R&D entity called Dronelander before launching WaiV Robotics.

  Founded WaiV Robotics

• Daniel Koppel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Prospera Technologies, developing AI computer vision for crop monitoring. Led the company to a 00M acquisition by Valmont Industries.

  Founded Prospera

• Dhanush Radhakrishnan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Clone Robotics. Building biomimetic musculoskeletal androids using synthetic muscles.

  Founded Clone Robotics

• Ivan Pisarenko1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Clone Robotics (founded 2021), Warsaw, Poland. Clone is building Torso, a humanoid upper-body platform with tendon-driven actuators designed ...

  Founded Clone Robotics

• Bo Chen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Enway, the German maker of autonomous electric sweeping robots.

  Founded Enway

• Julian Nordt1 founding

  Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.

  Founded Enway

• Thanuja Ambegoda1 founding

  Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.

  Founded Enway

• Joel Gibbard1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Open Bionics (founded 2014); a UK roboticist who developed the low-cost, 3D-printed bionic Hero Arm. Appointed MBE.

  Founded Open Bionics

• Samantha Payne1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Open Bionics (founded 2014), the maker of 3D-printed bionic Hero Arms. Appointed MBE.

  Founded Open Bionics

• Artem Kuchukov1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of KEWAZO (founded 2016), maker of the LIFTBOT robotic scaffolding hoist and construction-logistics robotics.

  Founded Kewazo

• Dima Gazda1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Esper Bionics; an MD and embedded engineer building the AI-powered Esper Hand prosthetic and a brain-computer-interface platform.

  Founded Esper Bionics

• Ekaterina Grib1 founding

  Co-founder of KEWAZO (founded 2016), the construction-robotics company digitizing scaffolding and material transport.

  Founded Kewazo

• Jens Peder Kristensen1 founding

  Founder of TinyMobileRobots (Malling, Denmark, founded 2015), maker of the TinyLineMarker autonomous sports-field and road line-marking robots.

  Founded TinyMobileRobots

• Jean Crosetti1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Bubble Robotics. Met co-founder Patricia Apostol through the Entrepreneurs First program. Brings commercial and operational experience to ...

  Founded Bubble Robotics

• Patricia Apostol1 founding

  Co-Founder of Bubble Robotics. Brings technical credibility from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ETH Zurich. Met co-founder Jean Crosetti through Entrepreneu...

  Founded Bubble Robotics

• Dr. Michael Yip1 founding

  Dr. Michael Yip is Co-Founder of Channel Robotics. He co-founded the medical robotics startup in 2023 with Dr. Philip Weissbrod.

  Founded Channel Robotics

• Dr. Philip Weissbrod1 founding

  Dr. Philip A. Weissbrod, MD is Co-Founder and CEO of Channel Robotics. He is a physician leading the development of handheld AI-enabled endoscopic robotic techn...

  Founded Channel Robotics

• Matthew Johnson-Roberson1 founding

  Co-founder and (titular) CTO of Refraction AI; operationally departed since ~2020. Subsequently Director of the CMU Robotics Institute and now inaugural Dean of...

  Founded Refraction AI

• Ram Vasudevan1 founding

  Co-founder of Refraction AI; an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan (co-director of the Ford Center for Aut...

  Founded Refraction AI

• Runal Dahiwade1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Peppermint Robotics in Pune, India, developing autonomous floor cleaning robots.

  Founded Peppermint Robotics

• Benoit Savary1 founding

  Founder and CEO of TIBOT Technologies (founded 2016), the French poultry-robotics company whose Spoutnic robots improve flock health and reduce floor eggs.

  Founded Tibot Technologies

• Avi Kahani1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of FFRobotics (founded 2014), developer of an autonomous fresh-fruit (apple) harvesting robot.

  Founded FFRobotics

• Yoav Koster1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of FFRobotics, developing robotic fruit harvesting technology.

  Founded FFRobotics

• Ritukar Vijay1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ottonomy.io (founded 2020), Cincinnati-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company making the Ottobot. Deployed in airports including...

  Founded Ottonomy

• Clint Brauer1 founding

  Third-generation farmer and technologist who founded Greenfield Robotics to build AI-powered weed-cutting robots that eliminate herbicide use.

  Founded GreenField Robotics

• Daniel Blank1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Toggle Industries (founded 2016 with Ian Cohen); built a full-stack robotics solution for automated rebar fabrication and assembly.

  Founded Toggle Industries

• Ian Cohen1 founding

  Co-founder of Toggle Industries (founded 2016), the automated rebar-fabrication robotics company.

  Founded Toggle Industries

• Cristian Ponce1 founding

  Cristian Ponce is CEO and co-founder of Tetsuwan Scientific. He holds a background in biological engineering from Caltech, where he contributed to research in f...

  Founded Tetsuwan Scientific

• Theo Schafer1 founding

  Theo Schafer is CTO and co-founder of Tetsuwan Scientific. He completed his master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich, with a thesis at MIT. He ...

  Founded Tetsuwan Scientific

• Bharath Sankaran1 founding

  Co-founder of Scaled Robotics (later Naska.AI), the construction quality-control robotics company; a robotics researcher.

  Founded Scaled Robotics

• Stuart Maggs1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Scaled Robotics (later rebranded Naska.AI), which built AI/3D-scanning robots for construction progress monitoring and quality control.

  Founded Scaled Robotics

• Joseph Sullivan1 founding

  Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Kevin Sullivan in 2015; serves as Senior Mechanical Engineer responsible for Dax robot hardware design.

  Founded Daxbot

• Kevin Sullivan1 founding

  Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Joseph Sullivan in 2015; the brothers previously developed tech for emergency responders.

  Founded Daxbot

• Konrad Fagertun1 founding

  Founder and business developer of nLink, originated the mobile drilling robot concept and won RoboBusiness Pitchfire in 2014.

  Founded nLink

• Evan Wineland1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Weave Robotics, former Apple engineer who met co-founder Kaan Dogrusoz at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015.

  Founded Weave Robotics

• Kaan Dogrusoz1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Weave Robotics, former Apple engineer who met co-founder Evan Wineland at Carnegie Mellon University. Leads the technical development of t...

  Founded Weave Robotics

• Kartik Tiwari1 founding

  Kartik Tiwari is CTO and co-founder of Andromeda Surgical. A 3x technical founder, he previously founded Starsky Robotics (YC S16), which built the world's firs...

  Founded Andromeda Surgical

• Nick Damiano1 founding

  Nick Damiano is CEO and co-founder of Andromeda Surgical. A 3x medtech founder, he previously founded Zenflow (YC W15, raised $100M+, Class 3 FDA approval) and ...

  Founded Andromeda Surgical

• Jakub Bartoszek1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of MAB Robotics in Poznan, Poland. Led the company to a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for the Honey Badger quadruped robot.

  Founded MAB Robotics

• Ridha Azaiz1 founding

  German engineer and founder of SolarBrush (now Aerial Power / Aerial Agency), who conceived the solar panel cleaning robot concept at age 13. Former Start-Up Ch...

  Founded SolarBrush

• Adrian Schmidt1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sarla Aviation, developing India's first 700 kg-class electric eVTOL aircraft.

  Founded Sarla Aviation

• Ahti Heinla1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Starship Technologies (CEO until 2021); a founding engineer of Skype and developer of Kazaa.

  Founded Starship Technologies

• Ajay Sunkara1 founding

  Co-founder, President, and CEO of Nala Robotics, the autonomous-kitchen / robot-chef company founded in 2017.

  Founded Nala Robotics

• Al Dekin1 founding

  Chief Revenue Officer and co-founder of Locus Robotics; previously co-founder and SVP of Sales & Marketing at Quiet Logistics.

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Albert Sanes1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of PAL Robotics (founded 2004), Barcelona. Leads technical development of PAL's humanoid and service robot platforms including TIAGo, TALOS, ...

  Founded PAL Robotics

• Alessandro Morra1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ascento (began as an ETH Zurich project in 2018), maker of the Ascento Guard wheel-legged outdoor security robot.

  Founded Ascento

• Alex Gordon1 founding

  Co-founder of Revolve Surgical. PhD in surgical robotics.

  Founded Revolve Surgical

• Alex Kendall1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based end-to-end autonomous driving company. PhD from the University of Cambridge.

  Founded Wayve

• Alex Shashou1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously founded ALICE, a B2B hospitality software company.

  Founded 10Beauty

• Alex Zhou1 founding

  Zhou Yong (Alex Zhou) is Founder and CEO of Linkerbot, a Beijing-based robotics unicorn dominating the high-DoF robotic hand market. He graduated at age 14 from...

  Founded Linkerbot

• Alexander Schlaepfer1 founding

  Founder of Inspection Robotics (originally ALSTOM Inspection Robotics), an ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab spin-off established in 2006 as a joint venture wit...

  Founded Inspection Robotics

• Amar Hanspal1 founding

  Co-founded Bright Machines in 2018 and serves as CEO; formerly President and co-CEO of Autodesk (2017-2018); background in software-defined industrial tools.

  Founded Bright Machines

• Amaury Kosman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Circular, a Paris-based smart ring company. Led the development of the Circular Ring 2, named Best Wearable of CES 2025.

  Founded Circular

• Andrea Thomaz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Diligent Robotics (founded 2017), maker of Moxi the hospital service robot. Previously Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austi...

  Founded Diligent Robotics

• Andreas Raptopoulos1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Matternet, the US/Swiss drone-logistics company he started in 2011 to build autonomous medical-delivery networks.

  Founded Matternet

• Andrew Lonsberry1 founding

  Co-founded Path Robotics in 2018 as CEO alongside his brother Josh; previously a research engineer focused on AI and robotics systems.

  Founded Path Robotics

• Andrew Smith1 founding

  Founded Outrider in 2017 and serves as CEO; previously COO of FedEx Supply Chain and executive at Penske Logistics.

  Founded Outrider

• Angelique Ahlstrom1 founding

  Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019), the tree-planting-drone reforestation company.

  Founded Flash Forest

• Angus Pacala1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ouster (founded 2015), the San Francisco digital lidar company. Pacala co-founded Ouster alongside Mark Frichtl with the thesis of buildin...

  Founded Ouster

• Anna Cheniuntai1 founding

  Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company.

  Founded Apis Cor

• Anne Osdoit1 founding

  Founding CEO of Moon Surgical; previously a partner at Sofinnova (MD Start) and founding CEO of SafeHeal and May Health.

  Founded Moon Surgical

• Ansgar Kadura1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Wingcopter.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Anthony Levandowski1 founding

  Self-driving-car engineer who led lidar work on Google's self-driving project (now Waymo), then founded the autonomous-trucking startup Otto in 2016, which Uber...

  Founded Pronto

• Antoine Bataille1 founding

  Founder and CEO of CareClever, maker of the Cutii companion robot for seniors that combats loneliness and supports aging in place.

  Founded Cutii

• Apeksha Kumavat1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Engineer of Gatik; previously computer-vision lead for autonomous vehicles at Ford and ML lead at Otsaw. MS from Purdue.

  Founded Gatik

• Apoorva Mehta1 founding

  Founder of Instacart (2012). Former Amazon supply chain engineer. Served as CEO until 2021, then transitioned to Executive Chairman of the Board.

  Founded Instacart

• Ariel Avitan1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Percepto.

  Founded Percepto

• Arjun Narang1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Gatik. MS in computer engineering from Purdue.

  Founded Gatik

• Aronin Ponnappan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sastra Robotics. Robotics specialist helping QA teams with robotics-aided test automation.

  Founded Sastra Robotics

• Arthur Erickson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hylio (founded 2015 while at UT Austin); led the company's shift to agricultural spray drones such as the AG-series.

  Founded Hylio

• Arthur Kolesnikov1 founding

  Founder and CEO of In-Pipe Robot Inc., developing robotic pipeline inspection systems using digital twins and cutting-edge robotics.

  Founded InPipe Technology

• Audley Wilson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RoboBurger, data scientist who invented the world's first fully autonomous burger machine. Featured on Shark Tank.

  Founded RoboBurger

• Aurelian Nicolae1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Hardware Engineer of WHOOP.

  Founded Whoop

• Aurelien Demaurex1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ecorobotix (founded 2014), the Swiss ultra-high-precision sprayer company behind the ARA; HEC Lausanne management background, previously c...

  Founded Ecorobotix

• Austin Link1 founding

  Co-founder of Starfish Space (2019). Former Blue Origin engineer. Co-leads the development of the Otter spacecraft for autonomous satellite rendezvous and docki...

  Founded Starfish Space

• Austin Russell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies (founded 2012), which he started at age 17 while a physics student at Stanford. Received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in ...

  Founded Luminar Technologies

• Avi Schiffmann1 founding

  22-year-old founder and CEO of Friend, an AI wearable necklace company. Previously built COVID tracking website. The 29 AI pendant is always-listening and meant...

  Founded Friend

• Avik De1 founding

  Co-founded Ghost Robotics in 2015 with Gavin Kenneally after completing his PhD at CMU's Robotics Institute; serves as CEO.

  Founded Ghost Robotics

• Banks Hunter1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Charge Robotics (founded 2021 with Max Justicz); MIT mechanical-engineering grad who previously worked at Shaper Tools and Vicarious Surgi...

  Founded Charge Robotics

• Ben Wolff1 founding

  CEO of Palladyne AI (reappointed 2024); a co-founder and long-time leader of Sarcos.

  Founded Palladyne AI (formerly Sarcos)

• Ben Wolff1 founding

  IP strategist and executive who led the 2015 management buyout of Sarcos from Raytheon with Fraser Smith. Served as CEO (2015–2021), returned as CEO in January ...

  Founded Sarcos Robotics

• Benjamin Pietro Filardo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Pliant Energy Systems, developing biomimetic undulating robots with novel fin-based propulsion systems.

  Founded Pliant Energy Systems

• Benjamin Sexson1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Monogram Technologies (CFA); previously at Pro-Dex. Monogram was acquired by Zimmer Biomet in October 2025.

  Founded Monogram Technologies

• Bing Fang1 founding

  Co-founder and COO, HAI Robotics; supply chain and operations leadership; oversees global deployment and customer success.

  Founded HAI Robotics

• Bir Singh1 founding

  Co-founder and CBO of Addverb (founded 2016), the warehouse and material-handling robotics company.

  Founded Addverb

• Brett Browning1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Stack AV; previously at Argo AI, Uber ATG, and CMU. PhD from the University of Queensland.

  Founded Stack AV

• Brett Lindenfeld1 founding

  Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the space-robotics company behind robotic arms and mechanisms for NASA missions.

  Founded Motiv Space Systems

• Brian Gerkey1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Open Robotics (and the Open Source Robotics Foundation), the organization behind ROS and Gazebo; now its board chair.

  Founded Open Robotics

• Brian Schimpf1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries; previously an engineering leader at Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Brice Gayet1 founding

  Founder of Moon Surgical; a French liver and pancreas surgeon and laparoscopic pioneer (MD, PhD).

  Founded Moon Surgical

• Bryan Salesky1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Stack AV (autonomous trucking, 2023); previously co-founder and CEO of Argo AI, an engineering leader on the Google self-driving project, ...

  Founded Stack AV

• Bryce Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flash Forest (founded 2019), a Toronto company using tree-planting drones for large-scale reforestation.

  Founded Flash Forest

• Bryton Shang1 founding

  Founder of Aquabyte (now Executive Chairman), which applies machine vision and AI to salmon aquaculture for biomass estimation, sea-lice counting, and feeding; ...

  Founded Aquabyte

• Cameron Jones1 founding

  Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019 with brother Bryce Jones and Angelique Ahlstrom), the reforestation-drone company.

  Founded Flash Forest

• Chang Jing1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Roborock, founded in 2014 in Beijing. Built the company into a publicly listed robot vacuum and smart home appliance manufacturer.

  Founded Roborock

• Charles Brian Quinn1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Greenzie (founded 2015), the autonomous-mowing software company; over fifteen years in technology, previously CTO at CloudTags and Holcomb...

  Founded Greenzie

• Cheng Hao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Booster Robotics (founded 2023), maker of the T1 humanoid; holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University's Department of Aut...

  Founded Booster Robotics

• Chiu Chau1 founding

  Co-founder of Opentrons; helped found and back the lab-automation robotics company.

  Founded Opentrons

• Chris Franzwa1 founding

  Co-founder of Verge Aero, the Philadelphia-based drone-light-show technology company.

  Founded Verge Aero

• Chris Rogers1 founding

  Industrial designer and robotics entrepreneur who founded InspectorBots in 2008 after being laid off from a Boulder design firm. Studied photography and industr...

  Founded InspectorBots

• Chris Thayer1 founding

  Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the Pasadena space-robotics company that built the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

  Founded Motiv Space Systems

• Chris Urmson1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Aurora; previously CTO of the Google self-driving project and technical director of CMU's DARPA Grand/Urban Challenge teams. PhD...

  Founded Aurora Innovation

• Christophe Timmermans1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of SolarCleano (founded 2017), the Luxembourg maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning machines.

  Founded SolarCleano

• Christopher Zhou1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shenzhen Camsense Technologies. Tsinghua University graduate.

  Founded Camsense

• Dan Parks1 founding

  Co-founder of inVia Robotics; met his co-founders during robotics PhD studies at USC.

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Daniel Theobald1 founding

  Founder of Vecna Robotics (and earlier Vecna Technologies); a robotics pioneer of 20+ years who built the company's autonomous mobile robots and workflow-orches...

  Founded Vecna Robotics

• Dave Crinklaw1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GUSS Automation; grew it out of his family's Crinklaw Farm Services spray business to create the Global Unmanned Spray System autonomous orch...

  Founded GUSS Automation

• David Cann1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Double Robotics (founded 2012), maker of the Double telepresence robot. Y Combinator alum (W12). Pioneer in mobile telepresence robotics f...

  Founded Double Robotics

• David Cann1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Double Robotics, developing the Double 3 telepresence robot. Y Combinator graduate.

  Founded Double Robotics

• David Hanson1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics (founded 2013, Hong Kong), creator of Sophia the humanoid robot. Holds PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology from University...

  Founded Hanson Robotics

• David Hanson1 founding

  American roboticist; founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics (founded 2013), creator of human-like social robots with realistic facial expressions, most notably Soph...

  Founded Hanson Robotics

• David Hsu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Retool, started the company in 2017 after studying Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford. YC W17 alumnus.

  Founded Retool

• David Lamont1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Square Robot, the Boston-based company building autonomous submersible robots for in-service aboveground storage-tank inspection.

  Founded Square Robot

• David Rodriguez1 founding

  Co-founder and Director of Business & Development at Kiwibot; Economics from Universidad de los Andes.

  Founded Kiwibot

• Davis Foster1 founding

  Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously at spatial-computing company Occipital.

  Founded Scythe Robotics

• Delian Asparouhov1 founding

  Co-founder of Varda Space Industries (2021) and partner at Founders Fund. Previously at Khosla Ventures. Estonian-American. Conceived the orbital pharmaceutical...

  Founded Varda Space Industries

• Demis Hassabis1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind (founded as DeepMind in 2010); DeepMind develops the Gemini Robotics models (the Apptronik partnership) and is the single ...

  Founded Google DeepMind

• Dino Mavrookas1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Saronic, the autonomous surface-vessel company; a former US Navy SEAL.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Dmitry Polishchuk1 founding

  CEO of Avride; founded and led Yandex's Self-Driving Group, from which Avride descends. Avride is now a subsidiary of Nebius Group. Previously ~12 years at Yand...

  Founded Avride

• Dominik Feiden1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Organifarms, developing the BERRY autonomous strawberry harvesting robot for greenhouse operations in Konstanz, Germany.

  Founded Organifarms

• Dor Abuhasira1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Percepto (autonomous industrial-inspection drones).

  Founded Percepto

• Doug Lambert1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Saronic; previously Head of Engineering at Liquid Robotics and VP Engineering at Terradepth.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Doug Unis1 founding

  Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Monogram Technologies (semi-autonomous knee robotics); a practicing orthopedic surgeon and associate professor at the Icahn...

  Founded Monogram Technologies

• Dr Atif Syed1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Wootzano, developing the Avarai fruit packaging robot with Wootzkin electronic skin. Awarded Princess Royal Silver Medal by the Royal Academy...

  Founded Wootzano

• Dr. David Löbl1 founding

  Dr. David Löbl is Co-Founder and CEO of ERC System. An aerospace engineer and leader shaping the future of hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft for defense and critica...

  Founded ERC System

• Dr. Qiu Chunxin1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of RoboSense. Founded the company in August 2014 in Shenzhen.

  Founded RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

• Dr. Tao Ye1 founding

  CEO and founder of Bambu Lab, leading the company to over CNY 10 billion in revenue and becoming one of the world's largest 3D printer manufacturers.

  Founded Bambu Lab

• Dr. Zhu Xiaorui1 founding

  Co-founder, Non-executive Director and Scientific Advisor of RoboSense.

  Founded RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

• Drew Bagnell1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Aurora; previously autonomy/perception lead at Uber ATG and a tenured professor at CMU. PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Aurora Innovation

• Dvir Cohen1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Momentis Surgical since October 2013. Leads development of the ANOVO Robotic Surgical System for gynecological and general surgery procedu...

  Founded Momentis Surgical

• Edwin Olson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of May Mobility; previously at the Toyota Research Institute and a professor at the University of Michigan (APRIL robotics lab). PhD from MIT...

  Founded May Mobility

• Eliot Horowitz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Viam (founded 2020, New York). Previously co-founded MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) in 2007 with Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan (all former DoubleClic...

  Founded Viam

• Emanuele Menegatti1 founding

  Professor at the University of Padua and co-founder of IT+Robotics, a 3D industrial robot vision spin-off founded in 2005.

  Founded IT+Robotics

• Enrico Grassi1 founding

  Founder and President of E80 Group. Established the company in Viano, Italy in 1980 and led its growth into a global integrated intralogistics automation provid...

  Founded E80 Group

• Eran Meller1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ecoppia, the water-free robotic solar-panel cleaning company (founded 2013); previously CFO at several acquired technology firms.

  Founded Ecoppia

• Eric Li (Li Shufu)1 founding

  Co-Founder of ECARX. Founder and Chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which controls Geely Auto, Volvo Cars, Lotus, Polestar, and other automotive brands. ...

  Founded ECARX

• Erik Dyrkoren1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Blueye Robotics, a spinoff from NTNU developing underwater ROVs for inspection and maritime security.

  Founded Blueye Robotics

• Ethan Thornton1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Mach Industries. Founded the defense tech company at age 21, now valued at .8B.

  Founded Mach Industries

• Eugene Zasoba1 founding

  Co-founder of Somatic, developing autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial buildings.

  Founded Somatic

• Fareed Aljawhari1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Micropolis Robotics in Dubai, developing autonomous patrol and security robots in collaboration with Dubai Police and government entities.

  Founded Micropolis Robotics

• Felipe Chavez Cortes1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Robot.com (formerly Kiwibot). MIT 35 honoree. Founded the company in 2017 as Kiwibot, rebranded to Robot.com in 2025 after acquiring the r...

  Founded Kiwibot

• Felipe Chávez Cortés1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Kiwibot, the Berkeley-based sidewalk delivery robot company that has completed 150,000+ deliveries and partnered with Sodexo for college c...

  Founded Kiwibot

• Francesco Ferro1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of PAL Robotics (founded 2004), Barcelona-based humanoid and service robot company. PAL makes TIAGo (mobile manipulation), TALOS (industrial ...

  Founded PAL Robotics

• Frank Wang1 founding

  Wang Tao, known as Frank Wang, founded DJI in 2006 from his HKUST dorm-room flight-controller work and serves as its CEO and chairman; DJI is the world's larges...

  Founded DJI

• Gautam Narang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Gatik (autonomous middle-mile trucking, founded 2017); previously at CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center and Honda R&D. MS in Robot...

  Founded Gatik

• Geoff Howe1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Howe & Howe (founded 2001 with twin brother Mike Howe; acquired by Textron Systems in 2018); co-pioneer of tracked robotic vehicles includ...

  Founded Howe & Howe

• Girish Chowdhary1 founding

  Co-founder of EarthSense (maker of the TerraSentia under-canopy field robot) and a robotics/agricultural-AI professor at the University of Illinois; PhD from Ge...

  Founded EarthSense

• Gokul N A1 founding

  Co-founder of CynLr. Working on object intelligence for robotics.

  Founded CynLr

• Gregor Kolls1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Filics. Leading Munich-based robotics startup building ultra-flat pallet transport AMRs.

  Founded Filics

• Gregory Penza1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ULC Technologies (formerly ULC Robotics, founded 2001), which builds robotic, drone, and inspection systems for the energy and utility sector...

  Founded ULC Technologies

• Gundbert Scherf1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing, the European defense-AI company; previously a German Ministry of Defence official and a McKinsey partner.

  Founded Helsing

• Guo Jiajun1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of DEEP Robotics (DeepRobotics, founded 2017), Hangzhou-based Chinese quadruped robot company. Makes the Jueying and Lite3 quadruped robots f...

  Founded DEEP Robotics

• Guoxing Wang1 founding

  Founder and chairman of RingConn and a distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University whose biomedical-circuits research underpins the RingConn smart ...

  Founded RingConn

• Guy German1 founding

  Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), maker of autonomous drywall-finishing and painting construction robots.

  Founded Okibo

• Hamza Allawi1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of BellHopp. Previously Director at Pent United Ltd and Risk Associate at National Bank of Kuwait.

  Founded BellHopp

• Hannah Brown1 founding

  CCO and co-founder of Organifarms, leading commercial strategy for the BERRY strawberry harvesting robot.

  Founded Organifarms

• Hannah Brown1 founding

  Co-founder and CCO of Organifarms, the German maker of the BERRY autonomous strawberry-harvesting robot, which grew out of a university hackathon team.

  Founded Organifarms

• Hao Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RingConn; an academic who co-founded the smart-ring company in 2021 around Shanghai Jiao Tong University biosensing research.

  Founded RingConn

• Hasham Khan1 founding

  Co-founder of BellHopp. Previously Account Executive at Zscaler and Salesforce, with prior business development experience at a company acquired by Google.

  Founded BellHopp

• Henri Seydoux1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Parrot (founded 1994).

  Founded Parrot

• Henrik Lund-Nielsen1 founding

  Founder and CEO of COBOD International, a leading supplier of 3D construction printers; a Danish serial entrepreneur.

  Founded COBOD

• Henrik Schumann-Olsen1 founding

  Co-founder of Zivid, transitioned from CEO to CTO and CMO roles. Leading technology and marketing at the Norwegian 3D vision company.

  Founded Zivid

• Henry Hu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Cafe X, founded in 2014. Pioneered robotic coffee bars and pivoted from retail stores to airport locations.

  Founded Cafe X

• Herbert Rubens1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Persistent Systems, leading the company's MANET technology development for defense and government markets since 2007.

  Founded Persistent Systems

• Hisashi Taniguchi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ZMP Inc., established in 2001. Leading Japanese autonomous driving and robotics company, partnering with Tokyo taxi firms.

  Founded ZMP

• Homayoon Kazerooni1 founding

  Dr. Homayoon Kazerooni is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and founder of suitX (US Bionics). He is a pioneer in wearable exoskeletons, prev...

  Founded SuitX (US Bionics)

• Howard Huang1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Orbbec. Trained engineer specializing in optical measurement. Founded Orbbec in 2013 and became a billionaire on China's AI robot b...

  Founded Orbbec

• Howard Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Antobot. Previously worked on embedded systems. Based at the Chelmsford Arise Innovation Hub.

  Founded Antobot

• Hu Xiaobo1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen LeiShen Intelligent System Co., Ltd (LSLiDAR). Director of China Lidar Engineering.

  Founded LeiShen Intelligent System

• Ido Genosar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verobotics (founded 2021), the Israeli maker of AI facade-cleaning/inspection wall-climbing robots.

  Founded Verobotics

• Ignacio Galiana1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verve Motion (2020-present); PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University; former staff engineer and program manager at the Wyss ...

  Founded Verve Motion

• Ingmar Posner1 founding

  Co-founder of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica); professor of applied AI at the University of Oxford.

  Founded Oxa

• Isaac Roberts1 founding

  Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously co-founded computer-vision startup Replica Labs.

  Founded Scythe Robotics

• Itay Levitan1 founding

  Co-founder of Verobotics (founded 2021), the building-facade cleaning and inspection robotics company.

  Founded Verobotics

• Jaakko Happonen1 founding

  Founder of Trombia Technologies (parent Snowek Oy), the Finnish maker of the Trombia Free autonomous street sweeper.

  Founded Trombia Technologies

• Jack Morrison1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Scythe Robotics (founded 2018); a computer-vision and robotics-software engineer who began at MITRE building CV systems for UAV imagery an...

  Founded Scythe Robotics

• Jagannath Raju1 founding

  Founder of Systemantics India. Builds affordable articulated industrial robots for factory floors.

  Founded Systemantics

• Jake Loosararian1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA), which develops robots for inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure (power plants, refineries...

  Founded Gecko Robotics

• Janus Friis1 founding

  Co-founder of Starship Technologies; co-founder of Kazaa, Skype and Joost (with Niklas Zennstrom) and of the VC firm Atomico.

  Founded Starship Technologies

• Jaret Matthews1 founding

  Aerospace engineer; founder and CEO of Venturi Astrolab, maker of the FLEX lunar rover. Previously an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and SpaceX.

  Founded Venturi Astrolab

• Jason Ma1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dyna Robotics; previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind, NVIDIA AI and Meta AI; lead author of the Eureka paper. PhD from the UP...

  Founded Dyna Robotics

• Jeff Lotz1 founding

  Co-founder of Deep Trekker (founded 2010), the underwater-ROV company.

  Founded Deep Trekker

• Jeffrey Thompson1 founding

  Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT); became CEO in 2019 after Red Cat acquired his predecessor company Red Cat Propware.

  Founded Red Cat Holdings

• Jensen Huang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA (founded 1993), whose robotics platforms (Isaac, Jetson, GR00T, Cosmos) and NVentures arm appear across the physical-AI registry. N...

  Founded NVIDIA

• Jerry Chen1 founding

  Surgeon and serial entrepreneur. Founded Brain Navi Biotechnology in 2015 to develop robotic surgical navigation technology.

  Founded Brain Navi

• Jerry Pratt1 founding

  Founding CTO of Figure AI (departed mid-2024); previously a senior research scientist at IHMC for ~20 years; later co-founded Persona AI.

  Founded Boardwalk Robotics

• Joe (Xu) Dong1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of Chestnut Robotics. Building robots that can reliably use their hands in real-world environments. Previously worked on AI models at XPeng Mot...

  Founded Chestnut Robotics

• Joe Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of Anduril Industries; previously a hardware product lead at Oculus VR and a paratrooper in the US Army National Guard.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Joe Moye1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Beep, the autonomous-shuttle mobility-as-a-service operator.

  Founded Beep

• JoeBen Bevirt1 founding

  Founded Joby Aviation in 2009 and serves as CEO; serial inventor and entrepreneur who has held dozens of patents in electric aviation and product design.

  Founded Joby Aviation

• Joel Anderson1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ZeroMark. Building AI-powered defense technology for precision targeting.

  Founded ZeroMark

• John Arne Breivik1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Stingray Marine Solutions, the Norwegian salmon sea-lice laser-robotics company.

  Founded Stingray Marine Solutions

• John Ha1 founding

  Founded Bear Robotics in 2017 after a career at Google; CEO; the idea emerged from his experience running a restaurant during graduate school.

  Founded Bear Robotics

• John Hayes1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ghost Autonomy (founded 2017), an autonomous driving software company for consumer vehicles. Previously co-founded Pure Storage (NYSE: PST...

  Founded Ghost Autonomy

• John Tenet1 founding

  Founder and CEO of CHAOS Industries. Also co-founded Epirus. Former partner at 8VC.

  Founded CHAOS Industries

• Jonathan Hesselbarth1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wingcopter.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Joris Hiddema1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AgXeed, leading development of autonomous agricultural tractors in the Netherlands.

  Founded AgXeed

• Josef Průša1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Prusa Research. Started as a developer in the RepRap open-source 3D printer project, founded Prusa Research in 2012 as a one-man startup, and...

  Founded Prusa Research

• Josh Lonsberry1 founding

  Co-founded Path Robotics in 2018 as CTO alongside his brother Andrew; leads robotics and AI engineering.

  Founded Path Robotics

• Juan Higueros1 founding

  Co-founder and COO Bear Robotics; former Tesla and Google operations leader; oversees deployment and customer success.

  Founded Bear Robotics

• Julius Amrit1 founding

  Co-founder, COO & Director of NewSpace Research and Technologies.

  Founded NewSpace Research and Technologies

• Justin Effron1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously co-founded ALICE with Alex Shashou.

  Founded 10Beauty

• Kai Sun1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hesai Technology. Previously research associate at Stanford University before co-founding Hesai in October 2014.

  Founded Hesai Technology

• Kamal Ghaffarian1 founding

  Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Intuitive Machines (2013). Iranian-American aerospace entrepreneur based in Houston. Also founder of ILC Industries and a p...

  Founded Intuitive Machines

• Karl Watfern1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Hullbot, the autonomous hull-cleaning robotics company.

  Founded Hullbot

• Kevin Albert1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Canvas. Former Boston Dynamics engineer who built the drywall finishing robot company to address construction labor shortages.

  Founded Canvas

• Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen1 founding

  Co-founder of Eelume (2015 NTNU spin-off) and a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; her snake-robotics research underpins Eelume's ...

  Founded Eelume

• Kuldar Väärsi1 founding

  Founded Milrem Robotics in 2013 and serves as CEO; leads development of THeMIS and Type-X unmanned ground vehicles for NATO and allied militaries.

  Founded Milrem Robotics

• Kyong-Sok Chang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Wonik Robotics, a Korean robotics manufacturer. Produces robotic arms and humanoid robots. Partner with RLWRLD for physical AI.

  Founded Wonik Robotics

• Le Anh Son1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Associate Professor.

  Founded Alpha Asimov Robotics

• Lei Jun1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Xiaomi Corporation (founded 2010), one of China's largest consumer electronics and smartphone companies. Lei Jun launched Xiaomi's robot init...

  Founded Xiaomi

• Leo Zhou1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Nordbo Robotics.

  Founded Nordbo Robotics

• Li Qingdu1 founding

  Professor with 20 years of experience in bionics and robotics. Founded DroidUp to build biomimetic humanoid robots for healthcare and companion applications.

  Founded DroidUp

• Li Tong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of KEENON Robotics (KEENON Technology); also known as Tony Li. Founded the company in Shanghai in 2010 after working in robotics at Microsoft. B...

  Founded KEENON Robotics

• Lindon Gao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Dyna Robotics; previously founder and CEO of checkout-automation company Caper AI (acquired by Instacart).

  Founded Dyna Robotics

• Lionel Flaction1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Distalmotion; from the EPFL Robotics Lab, where the company originated.

  Founded Distalmotion

• Lior Elazary1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of inVia Robotics; met co-founders Dan Parks and Randolph Voorhies during robotics PhD studies at USC; previously co-founded what became Veri...

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Liu Peichao1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of Dobot, a Shenzhen-based robotic arm company. Revenue CN¥286.75M in 2023. Expanding into humanoid robots with Atom.

  Founded Dobot

• Liu Wenjie1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LimX Dynamics (founded 2021), Shenzhen-based humanoid and legged robot company making the CL-1 biped and W1 quadruped. Previously a roboti...

  Founded LimX Dynamics

• Liu Yao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Kepler Robotics (founded 2022), a Chinese humanoid robot company. Previously at DJI. Building humanoid robots for logistics and industrial...

  Founded Kepler Robotics

• Ljubisa Bajic1 founding

  Founder of Tenstorrent (2016, Toronto); CEO from founding until May 2026 when he transitioned to CTO as Jim Keller took the CEO role. Serial entrepreneur in chi...

  Founded Tenstorrent

• Luc Piguet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ClearSpace SA (2018), an EPFL spinout specializing in active space debris removal. Leads ClearSpace-1, the first ESA-contracted mission to...

  Founded ClearSpace

• Lukas Silberbauer1 founding

  Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010.

  Founded Taurob

• Luke Hares1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of CMR Surgical. Studied at the University of Cambridge.

  Founded CMR Surgical

• Mads Bendt1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Capra Robotics, Danish autonomous mobile robot company.

  Founded Capra Robotics

• Marco Hutter1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of ANYbotics; Associate Professor at ETH Zurich RSL; pioneer in legged robot locomotion and the ANYmal quadruped platform. Branco Weiss Fello...

  Founded ANYbotics

• Marco Monteiro1 founding

  Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA). Co-founded with Jake Loosararian in 2013. Background in robotics engineering.

  Founded Gecko Robotics

• Maria de Lourdes Zollo1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bee, the wearable AI assistant company. Previously worked at Squad and Twitter. Bee was acquired by Amazon in 2025.

  Founded Bee

• Maria Telleria1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Canvas. Studied mechanical engineering at MIT and spent her career in robotics.

  Founded Canvas

• Mark Frichtl1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ouster (founded 2015). Frichtl co-founded Ouster with Angus Pacala and leads the company's hardware and sensor engineering. Ouster's digit...

  Founded Ouster

• Mark Oleynik1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Moley Robotics, creator of the world's first fully-automated robotic kitchen. Russian and British mathematician, computer scientist, and entr...

  Founded Moley Robotics

• Mark Slack1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMR Surgical; a consultant gynaecologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

  Founded CMR Surgical

• Mark Zuckerberg1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Meta; Meta Reality Labs runs a humanoid-robotics group (which hired ex-Cruise CEO Marc Whitten) and ships Ray-Ban Meta wearables. Meta AI / F...

  Founded Meta

• Martin Herrenknecht1 founding

  Founded Herrenknecht in 1975 with six employees and grew it into the worldwide market leader for tunnel boring machines, manufacturing the TBMs that bored the G...

  Founded Herrenknecht

• Massimo Banzi1 founding

  Co-founder of Arduino, helped invent the Arduino open-source microcontroller that has inspired thousands of makers and robotics projects worldwide.

  Founded Arduino

• Mate Rimac1 founding

  Mate Rimac is founder of Verne and founder/CEO of Rimac Automobili (Rimac Group), a Croatian electric vehicle technology company. He also serves as CEO of Bugat...

  Founded Verne

• Matt Grimm1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Anduril Industries; previously at Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Matt Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Richtech Robotics (Nasdaq: RTC); led company from founding in 2019 to 2023 IPO; background in hospitality robotics and automation.

  Founded Richtech Robotics

• Matt McCue1 founding

  Co-founder and President of DZYNE Technologies, with a decade developing leading UAS platforms.

  Founded DZYNE Technologies

• Matt Mellor1 founding

  Founder of Createc (founded 2010), the Cumbria-based gamma-ray-imaging, robotics, and AI firm for nuclear environments; served as CEO before moving to CTO in No...

  Founded Createc

• Matthew Bush1 founding

  Co-founder of Hirebotics (2015) and its CEO since February 2026 (previously COO); the company makes turnkey welding and material-handling cobot systems.

  Founded Hirebotics

• Matthew Kang1 founding

  Co-founder of Revolve Surgical.

  Founded Revolve Surgical

• Matthias Biegl1 founding

  Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010. Developed rugged ground robots for industrial inspection and firefighting.

  Founded Taurob

• Matthieu Masselin1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Wandercraft (2012-present); has led the company through its Atalante rehabilitation exoskeleton, personal exoskeleton Eve, and humanoid ro...

  Founded Wandercraft

• Max Justicz1 founding

  Co-founder of Charge Robotics (founded 2021), which builds robots that automate utility-scale solar construction; MIT alum.

  Founded Charge Robotics

• Maximilian Oligschläger1 founding

  Maximilian Oligschläger is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of ERC System, driving commercial strategy and partnerships for the company's eVTOL platforms...

  Founded ERC System

• Michael Howe1 founding

  Co-founder and president/chief engineer of Howe & Howe (founded 2001 with twin brother Geoff Howe); developer of tracked robotic and extreme vehicles.

  Founded Howe & Howe

• Michael Johnson1 founding

  Founded Sea Machines Robotics in 2016 and serves as CEO; previously held executive roles in the maritime industry including at Huntington Ingalls Industries.

  Founded Sea Machines Robotics

• Michael Levy1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Somatic, developing autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial buildings. Previously held leadership roles in tech.

  Founded Somatic

• Michael Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Richtech Robotics (Nasdaq: RTC); oversees operations and product deployment for hospitality robotics fleet.

  Founded Richtech Robotics

• Michele Guarnieri1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of HiBot (spun out of the Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Lab), maker of snake and inspection robots; earned his PhD at Tokyo Tech und...

  Founded HiBot

• Miguel de la Iglesia Valls1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ascento, the Swiss outdoor-security-robot company spun out of ETH Zurich.

  Founded Ascento

• Mike Connor1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of ThayerMahan. Retired Admiral, former U.S. submarine force commander.

  Founded ThayerMahan

• Mike Coughlin1 founding

  Founder, president, and CEO of ScriptPro (founded 1994), which built the first robotic prescription-dispensing system for community and outpatient pharmacies.

  Founded ScriptPro

• Mike Howe1 founding

  Co-founder of Howe & Howe Technologies, the Waterboro, Maine-based defense and emergency response robotics company, now a Textron Systems subsidiary.

  Founded Howe & Howe

• Mike Johnson1 founding

  President, COO and co-founder of Locus Robotics; previously co-founded AllPoints Systems and Quiet Logistics with Bruce Welty.

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Mikhail Fedosovsky1 founding

  Founder of the Diakont group (founded 1990), which develops robotic in-line pipe-inspection crawlers and nuclear/energy motion-control and inspection systems.

  Founded Diakont

• Mircea Tudor1 founding

  Founder of MB Telecom (1994) and Tudor Scan Tech SA (2014), inventor of the ROBOSCAN inspection system and three-time Grand Prix winner at the Geneva Internatio...

  Founded Roboscan

• Mo Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of TuSimple and Chairman of CreateAI (the generative-AI gaming/animation company TuSimple rebranded into after exiting US autonomous trucking and del...

  Founded TuSimple

• Mohammed Hikmet1 founding

  Founder and chairman of HMI Technologies (founded 1999) and its autonomous-shuttle subsidiary Ohmio Automotion; emigrated to New Zealand from Iraq in 1996.

  Founded Ohmio

• Mohit Kumar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, the Indian metabolic-health and smart-ring company.

  Founded Ultrahuman

• Mr. Liu Letian1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of RoboSense.

  Founded RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

• Nadav Shuruk1 founding

  Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall/painting robotics company.

  Founded Okibo

• Nathan Xu (Xu Gao)1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Plaud.ai, a bootstrapped AI hardware company reaching $250M ARR. Serial entrepreneur. Plaud makes the NotePin S wearable AI voice recorder...

  Founded Plaud AI

• Neel Mehta1 founding

  Co-founder and Director of Asteria Aerospace, Purdue University alumni. Leading India's full-stack drone technology company.

  Founded Asteria Aerospace

• Nguyen Tuan Anh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Former Grab Vietnam Country Head.

  Founded Alpha Asimov Robotics

• Nicola Telford1 founding

  Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with her husband Mark), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm.

  Founded Forth Engineering

• Nicolas Simon1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of the Board at Wandercraft (2012-present); graduated in robotics from Ecole Polytechnique. Personal motivation: family members use whee...

  Founded Wandercraft

• Niels Jul Jacobsen1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, founded 2013). Led the technical development of MiR's autonomous mobile robot platform. Previously at Unive...

  Founded Mobile Industrial Robots

• Nikhil Ramaswamy1 founding

  Co-founder of CynLr. Working on visual object intelligence for robotics for over a decade.

  Founded CynLr

• Nikita Cheniuntai1 founding

  Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company founded in 2014.

  Founded Apis Cor

• Niklas Koehler1 founding

  Co-founder of Helsing, the European defense-AI company.

  Founded Helsing

• Nikolas Bullwinkel1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Circus SE. Serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Flink, a grocery delivery startup, before founding Circus Group.

  Founded Circus SE

• Nikunj Parashar1 founding

  Founder of Sagar Defence Engineering, developing unmanned surface vessels for the Indian Navy and commercial applications. Partnered with Liquid Robotics for US...

  Founded Sagar Defence Engineering

• Nils Thorjussen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verge Aero, maker of drone-light-show systems; a veteran entertainment-technology entrepreneur (Flying Pig Systems, Element Labs).

  Founded Verge Aero

• Nir Yanushevsky1 founding

  Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall-finishing robotics company.

  Founded Okibo

• Nobu Okada1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Astroscale (2013). Founded the company in Singapore after attending a 2013 conference on space debris where he saw a clear problem and no act...

  Founded Astroscale

• Omer David1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Innoviz Technologies (founded 2016), the Israeli solid-state lidar company headquartered in Neve Ilan, Israel. David co-founded Innoviz wi...

  Founded Innoviz Technologies

• Oren Rosenzweig1 founding

  Co-founder of Innoviz Technologies (founded 2016). Rosenzweig co-founded Innoviz alongside Omer David following careers in Israeli defense and technology. Innov...

  Founded Innoviz Technologies

• Pal Liljeback1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Eelume (2015 NTNU spin-off); earned his doctorate in snake robotics under Kristin Pettersen, the basis for Eelume's all-terrain underwater...

  Founded Eelume

• Paul Lwin1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of HavocAI. Leading development of autonomous maritime systems and AI-powered vessel solutions.

  Founded HavocAI

• Paul Mikesell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics (the AI LaserWeeder); previously Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber and co-founder of Isilon Systems and Clustrix...

  Founded Carbon Robotics

• Paul Newman1 founding

  Co-founder of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica); professor of robotics at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of autonomous-driving software.

  Founded Oxa

• Paul Phillips1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Reach Robotics (formerly Blueprint Lab), founded in 2016 in Sydney, Australia. University of Sydney alumnus.

  Founded Reach Robotics

• Paul Travers1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Vuzix, leading the optical technology and AR smart glasses company for 25+ years. Partnering with Quanta Computer for AI-powered smart glasse...

  Founded Vuzix

• Paulo Debenest1 founding

  Co-founder of HiBot (Tokyo Tech spin-off, 2004); a mechanical engineer who began at Embraer in Brazil before pursuing robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technol...

  Founded HiBot

• Peter Beck1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab. Self-taught engineer who founded the company in Auckland in 2006, grew it into a leading small-satellite launch provider and publ...

  Founded Rocket Lab USA

• Peter Fankhauser1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ANYbotics (founded 2016), Swiss quadruped robot company spun out of ETH Zurich. ANYbotics makes the ANYmal autonomous inspection robot. Pr...

  Founded ANYbotics

• Peter Francis1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Revolve Surgical. Background in mechatronics engineering and surgical robotics.

  Founded Revolve Surgical

• Peter Ho1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of HOPE Technik. Founded the Singapore engineering firm in 2006 with three NUS schoolmates.

  Founded HOPE Technik

• Peter Rander1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Stack AV; previously co-founder and COO of Argo AI, an engineering lead at Uber ATG, and at CMU's NREC. PhD in robotics from Carnegi...

  Founded Stack AV

• Philip Norman1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ross Robotics (founded 2015); conceived the Robosynthesis modular, reconfigurable ground-robot platform.

  Founded Ross Robotics

• Philipp Herget1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dusty Robotics; previously robotics hardware lead at Savioke and at IBM and Philips Research. PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Dusty Robotics

• Phyl Schnyder1 founding

  Co-founder of Apellix, the aerial-robotics company making spray-painting and coating drones; joined as co-founder in 2015.

  Founded Apellix

• Pol Duthoit1 founding

  Co-founder of SolarCleano (founded 2017), maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning systems.

  Founded SolarCleano

• Prateek Jain1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian robotics and warehouse-automation company.

  Founded Addverb

• Pulkit Gaur1 founding

  Founder and CTO of Gridbots Technologies. TED Fellow. Leading India-based robotics and machine vision company.

  Founded Gridbots Technologies

• Qi Xiangdong1 founding

  Co-founder and President of 360 Security Technology, overseeing the company's security product development.

  Founded 360 Security Technology

• Rajat Bhageria1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics; Wharton alumnus; building AI-powered food-assembly robots for industrial kitchens. Led $43M Series A (2023) and $20.6M round (...

  Founded Chef Robotics

• Randolph Voorhies1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of inVia Robotics; a USC robotics PhD who co-founded the goods-to-person warehouse-robotics company.

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Raquel Urtasun1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Waabi (founded 2021); previously chief scientist at Uber ATG and a professor at the University of Toronto. PhD from EPFL.

  Founded Waabi

• Raviv Raz1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Policy & Safety Officer of Percepto; a former Israeli Air Force pilot and flight-test engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries.

  Founded Percepto

• Ren Bin1 founding

  Founder, CEO and General Manager of JOUAV, one of the world's top 5 UAV manufacturers, developing VTOL fixed-wing drones since 2010.

  Founded JOUAV

• Renaud Heitz1 founding

  Co-founded Exotec in 2015 and serves as CTO; leads robotics and software engineering.

  Founded Exotec

• Rich Lindner1 founding

  Founder, President and CEO of Envirosight. Previously worked at an industrial test and measurement company before founding Envirosight in 2002 to bring innovati...

  Founded Envirosight

• Richard Jenkins1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Saildrone; inventor of the wing-sail and holder of the world land-speed sailing record.

  Founded Saildrone

• Richard Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Aiper (founded 2016, Shenzhen/Atlanta), maker of cordless robotic pool cleaners.

  Founded Aiper

• Richie Chen1 founding

  Founded HAI Robotics in 2016 and serves as CEO; leads development of the HAIPICK goods-to-person autonomous case-handling system.

  Founded HAI Robotics

• Rick Cohen1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Symbotic; also Chairman, President and CEO of C&S Wholesale Grocers. BS from Wharton.

  Founded Symbotic

• Ritesh Ragavender1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Reflex Robotics, building affordable (0k) wheeled humanoid robots for logistics and manufacturing. Piloting with GXO Logistics.

  Founded Reflex Robotics

• Rob Lehman1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Saronic; a 21-year US Marine Corps officer (Lt. Col.); previously at Northrop Grumman and ManTech.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Robert Dahlstrom1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Apellix; began building power-wash and spray-painting drone prototypes in 2013-14, founded the company in 2015, and patented its software-con...

  Founded Apellix

• Robert Dane1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ocius Technology, a lifelong mariner who designed the Bluebottle USV to harness solar, wind, and wave power for endless endurance maritime mi...

  Founded Ocius Technology

• Robert Little1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ATI Industrial Automation, the world-leading developer of robotic end-effectors and tool changers. Founded the company in 1989.

  Founded ATI Industrial Automation

• Robert Schena1 founding

  Co-founded Rajant Corporation in 2001, pioneering Kinetic Mesh networking and BreadCrumb wireless nodes for defense, mining, and autonomous vehicle applications...

  Founded Rajant Corporation

• Robin Li1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, whose Apollo Go (Luobo Kuaipao) is China's leading driverless robotaxi service. Previously at Infoseek.

  Founded Baidu

• Romain Moulin1 founding

  Co-founded Exotec in 2015 and serves as CEO; previously an engineer at Siemens and Freescale.

  Founded Exotec

• Roman Hölzl1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of RobCo, a Munich-based modular robotics company spun out of TU Munich in 2020.

  Founded RobCo

• Rustom Jehangir1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Blue Robotics (founded 2014), the marine-robotics company behind the BlueROV2 and open-source underwater thrusters, sensors, and software.

  Founded Blue Robotics

• Sagi Blonder1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Percepto; previously at Freescale Semiconductor. BSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

  Founded Percepto

• Salah Sukkarieh1 founding

  Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at The University of Sydney and CEO of Agerris. Spun out Agerris from research at the Australian Centre for Field ...

  Founded Agerris

• Salar al Khafaji1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Monumental, the Dutch construction-robotics company building autonomous bricklaying robots; founded the company in 2021.

  Founded Monumental

• Sam Altman1 founding

  CEO of OpenAI Robotics.

  Founded OpenAI

• Sam Macdonald1 founding

  Co-founder and president of Deep Trekker (founded 2010 with Jeff Lotz), the Canadian maker of portable underwater ROVs.

  Founded Deep Trekker

• Sameer Joshi1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO & Director of NewSpace Research and Technologies. Former Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot. Leads NRT's aerospace and defence R&D programs.

  Founded NewSpace Research and Technologies

• Samer Al Moubayed1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Furhat Robotics (founded 2014, Stockholm). PhD in Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Masters in Global Management fr...

  Founded Furhat Robotics

• Samil Ozden1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Milvus Robotics, developing autonomous mobile robots for warehouse and industrial material handling.

  Founded Milvus Robotics

• Samuel Bouchard1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Robotiq, Canadian collaborative robot gripper and sensor company.

  Founded Robotiq

• Sangeet Kumar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian warehouse-automation company making AMRs, ASRS, and material-handling robots; backed by Reliance.

  Founded Addverb

• Scott Peters1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Construction Robotics. Expert in robotics and construction technology.

  Founded Construction Robotics

• Sean Johnson1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Locus Robotics; previously SVP of Information Systems at Quiet Logistics.

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Sebastiaan Visser1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Monumental, the autonomous-bricklaying robotics company.

  Founded Monumental

• Sergio Pachon Reyes1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Kiwibot; previously founded the delivery startup Lulo. Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

  Founded Kiwibot

• Shane Farritor1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Virtual Incision (formed 2006); a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professor who co-developed the MIRA miniaturized surgical rob...

  Founded Virtual Incision

• Shaoqing Xiang1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Hesai Technology. Previously iPhone hardware systems integration engineer at Apple (2011-2014). Dual master's degrees...

  Founded Hesai Technology

• Shigeo Hirose1 founding

  Tokyo Institute of Technology robotics professor and pioneer of snake and legged robots; co-founder and director of HiBot (spun out of Tokyo Tech in 2004).

  Founded HiBot

• Shuo Yang1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Mondo Robotics. Former Tesla Optimus Staff Control Engineer. CMU Robotics PhD. Building Beni, an all-terrain camera robot inspired by a pr...

  Founded Mondo Robotics

• Soroush Salehian1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Aeva Technologies, developing 4D LiDAR-on-a-chip technology for autonomous driving and robotics.

  Founded Aeva

• Stacy Stephens1 founding

  Co-founded Knightscope in 2013 and serves as President; previously senior leadership in semiconductor industry and at Hyundai.

  Founded Knightscope

• Stephane Bedard1 founding

  Founder, President and CEO of B-TEMIA, developing the Keeogo powered walking assist exoskeleton based on the Dermoskeleton technology platform.

  Founded B-TEMIA

• Steve Altemus1 founding

  Co-founder, President and CEO of Intuitive Machines (2013). Former NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director. Led the company from founding through the IM-1 Ody...

  Founded Intuitive Machines

• Steve Cousins1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Savioke (founded 2013), maker of the Relay robot butler for hotels and hospitals. Previously CEO of Willow Garage, the robotics incubator ...

  Founded Savioke

• Steve Reinharz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RAD (Robotic Assistance Devices), developing autonomous security patrol robots.

  Founded RAD Robotics

• Steve Saunders1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Robotics Plus, acquired by Yamaha Motor in 2025. New Zealand agricultural technology entrepreneur.

  Founded Robotics Plus

• Steve Tanner1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ecorobotix; grew up on a farm weeding sugar beets by hand and holds a PhD from EPFL.

  Founded Ecorobotix

• Steve Vozar1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of May Mobility; previously at the University of Michigan.

  Founded May Mobility

• Steven Yang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Anker Innovations, parent company of eufy. Former Google engineer who built Anker into a global consumer electronics brand listed on the Shen...

  Founded eufy (Anker Innovations)

• Sudhir Srivastava1 founding

  Globally acclaimed robotic cardiac surgeon and founder of SS Innovations. Pioneered robotic telesurgery and aims to make robotic surgery affordable and accessib...

  Founded SS Innovations International

• Susan Graham1 founding

  Biomedical engineer (University of Oxford); co-founder and CEO of Dendra Systems, the drone-based ecosystem-restoration company.

  Founded Dendra Systems

• Takanori Shibata1 founding

  Inventor of the PARO therapeutic seal robot, which he began developing at Japan's AIST in 1993; chief senior research scientist at AIST.

  Founded PARO Robots

• Takeshi Hakamada1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ispace, inc. (2010). Originated from the team that competed in the Google Lunar XPRIZE (Team HAKUTO). Led ispace through the record-largest J...

  Founded ispace

• Tao Zhi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, leading the Beijing-based hotel service robot company backed by Tencent, Alibaba, and Lenovo.

  Founded Yunji Technology

• Tessa Lau1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics (construction layout robots); previously a research scientist at Willow Garage, co-founder/CTO of Savioke, and ~11 years at IB...

  Founded Dusty Robotics

• Thomas Visti1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, founded 2013), Danish AMR manufacturer based in Odense. MiR pioneered autonomous mobile robots for internal...

  Founded Mobile Industrial Robots

• Thuc Vu1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. Previously founded Katango (acquired by Google) and Tappy (acquired by Weeby.co).

  Founded OhmniLabs

• Tianhao Zhang1 founding

  Co-founder of Covariant who remained to lead the company after Amazon hired its other founders in 2024.

  Founded Covariant

• Tim Crain1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Intuitive Machines (2013). Former NASA engineer. Leads technical development of the Nova-C lunar lander and future lu...

  Founded Intuitive Machines

• Tim Ellis1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space; former engineer at Blue Origin and SpaceX; founded Relativity with Jordan Noone in 2015.

  Founded Relativity Space

• Tim Steiner1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ocado Group (founded 2000), UK online grocery and robotic warehouse automation company. Led Ocado from startup to a FTSE 100 company; pion...

  Founded Ocado Group

• Tobias Rietzler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of robominds. Electrical engineer passionate about robotics innovations.

  Founded robominds

• Tom Loefler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hullbot, the Australian autonomous underwater hull-cleaning robotics company.

  Founded Hullbot

• Tom McCarthy1 founding

  Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), a Pasadena space-robotics company specializing in robotic arms, motor controllers, and mechanisms.

  Founded Motiv Space Systems

• Tom Plummer1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of Wingcopter, the German fixed-wing eVTOL delivery-drone company founded in 2017.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Tom Plümmer1 founding

  Tom Plümmer is Co-founder and CEO of Wingcopter, a German drone delivery company.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Tom Wagner1 founding

  Founded Berkshire Grey in 2013 and serves as CEO; previously held senior R&D roles at iRobot and MIT Lincoln Laboratory; leads AI-driven robotic fulfillment sys...

  Founded Berkshire Grey

• Tom Yeshurun1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of CIV Robotics, maker of autonomous land-surveying/layout robots (CivDot) for construction and solar sites; came from a road-construction ba...

  Founded Civ Robotics

• Tony Han1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of WeRide; previously Chief Scientist of Baidu's autonomous-driving unit and a tenured professor at the University of Missouri. PhD fr...

  Founded WeRide

• Tony Norman1 founding

  Co-Founder, President and CEO of Innovation First International (VEX Robotics). Inventor with more than 60 patents worldwide in educational and competitive robo...

  Founded VEX Robotics

• Torsten Reil1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing; previously founded animation-technology company NaturalMotion.

  Founded Helsing

• Trae Stephens1 founding

  Co-founder and executive chairman of Anduril Industries and a partner at venture firm Founders Fund; previously at Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Trevor Bennett1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Starfish Space (2019). Former Blue Origin engineer. Leads technical development of the Otter servicing spacecraft and docking mechanisms. ...

  Founded Starfish Space

• Troy Demmer1 founding

  Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (COO); co-founded the wall-climbing infrastructure-inspection robotics company with Jake Loosararian in 2016.

  Founded Gecko Robotics

• Vatsal Singhal1 founding

  Co-founder of Ultrahuman; previously co-founded logistics company Runnr / Roadrunnr.

  Founded Ultrahuman

• Vibhav Altekar1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Saronic; previously an early engineer at Anduril (Royal Australian Navy Ghost Shark) and at Twitter.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Vijay Kodali1 founding

  Co-founder of Nala Robotics, the autonomous-kitchen / robot-chef company.

  Founded Nala Robotics

• Vinay Shet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Teleo, which retrofits heavy equipment into supervised-autonomous machines; previously director of product for Lyft's self-driving program...

  Founded Teleo

• Vivian Chu1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Diligent Robotics (founded 2017). Previously PhD researcher at Georgia Tech under Andrea Thomaz. Leads the robotics software and hardware ...

  Founded Diligent Robotics

• Volkmar Uhlig1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ghost Autonomy. PhD in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Previously co-founder and CTO of Adello, archite...

  Founded Ghost Autonomy

• Wang Donglin1 founding

  Professor and Chair of Westlake University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Founder of Westlake Robotics.

  Founded Westlake Robotics

• Wayne Huang1 founding

  Founder, chairman and CEO of Zepp Health (formerly Huami); founded Anhui Huami in 2013, powered Xiaomi's Mi Band, and launched the Amazfit/Zepp brands before th...

  Founded Zepp Health (Amazfit)

• Wei Hongxing1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of AUBO (Beijing) Robotics Technology, founded 2015 under China's 863 high-technology research program. Former aerospace researcher. AUBO h...

  Founded AUBO Robotics

• Will Ahmed1 founding

  Founder and CEO of WHOOP; conceived the company as a Harvard undergraduate.

  Founded Whoop

• Will Bruey1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Varda Space Industries (2021). Former electrical engineer at SpaceX. Leads Varda's mission to manufacture pharmaceuticals and advanced mat...

  Founded Varda Space Industries

• Will Canine1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Opentrons; started the open-source lab-automation/liquid-handling robotics company out of a community hackerspace with co-founders he met ...

  Founded Opentrons

• Will Wells1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Hummingbird Technologies, conceived the drone-based crop analytics company during his MBA at INSEAD.

  Founded Hummingbird Technologies

• William Santana Li1 founding

  Co-founded Knightscope in 2013 and serves as CEO; previously at Ford Motor Company and other ventures; led the company to a Nasdaq listing in 2022.

  Founded Knightscope

• Yan Li1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and director of WeRide; previously a senior engineer at Facebook/Meta and an applied researcher at Microsoft. PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded WeRide

• Yang Jianbo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of KEYi Technology, a Beijing-based consumer robotics company. Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017. Mechanical engineer leading 80+ employees building ...

  Founded KEYi Technology

• Yifan Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hesai Technology (Nasdaq: HSAI), the Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer founded in 2014. Also referred to as David Li in Western-language s...

  Founded Hesai Technology

• Yoichi Takamoto1 founding

  Founder, president, and CEO of tmsuk (established January 2000), a Japanese service-robotics company building practical robots for healthcare, rescue, construct...

  Founded Tmsuk

• York Yang1 founding

  Co-founder of Dyna Robotics; previously at Caper AI.

  Founded Dyna Robotics

• Yoshiyuki Sankai1 founding

  Professor at University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering. Founded Cyberdyne in 2004 to commercialize the HAL exoskeleton he first...

  Founded Cyberdyne

• YT Jia1 founding

  Founder and Global CEO of Faraday Future. Chinese entrepreneur who founded the company in 2014. Led the company through its EV development phase and subsequent ...

  Founded Faraday Future

• Yu Kai1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics (Beijing), an AI chip and autonomous driving software company. Founded 2015. Previously chief scientist at Baidu Institute o...

  Founded Horizon Robotics

• Yu Kai1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, a Chinese autonomous driving computing chip company. Founded in 2015. Market value 2.5B. Launched China's first cockpit-dri...

  Founded Horizon Robotics

• Yuhang Hu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AheadForm. Launched the company in Shanghai in 2024 at age 26 while enrolled in a Columbia doctoral program. PhD in Robotics and Machine Lear...

  Founded AheadForm

• Zaki Hussein1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Touchlab. PhD in intelligent sensing and measurement from Edinburgh University. Bootstrapped the company before securing venture funding.

  Founded Touchlab

• Zhang Junbin1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Narwal Robotics, founded in 2016. Leading the Shenzhen-based robot vacuum company's cleaning revolution.

  Founded Narwal

• Zhang Yanliang1 founding

  Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Weston Robot. Singapore-based deep tech robotics entrepreneur.

  Founded Weston Robot

• Zhao Yue1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SEER Robotics. Admitted to the mixed class of Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University.

  Founded SEER Robotics

• Zhi Tao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, Chinese hotel service robotics company. IPO'd on HKEX.

  Founded Yunji Technology

• Zhou Hongyi1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of 360 Security Technology. Leading the company's pivot to AI-powered cybersecurity and advocating for humanoid robot adoption in Chin...

  Founded 360 Security Technology

• Ziyu Shen1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of ECARX. Automotive technology entrepreneur who co-founded ECARX in 2017 with Eric Li (Li Shufu) to create full-stack intelligent vehicle te...

  Founded ECARX

• Adam Sachs1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical (2014-2024); met co-founder Sammy Khalifa at MIT. Led company through $1.1B SPAC merger with D8 Holdings (October 2021)...

  Founded Vicarious Surgical

• Adityanag Nagesh1 founding

  Co-founder and CBO of Mowito. Three-time founder. Former VP Hardware at Sensara and ex-IBM.

  Founded Mowito

• Akshay Narisetti1 founding

  Founder of Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket).

  Founded Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket)

• Albert Maas1 founding

  Founder of Avular, spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014 to develop modular mobile robot platforms.

  Founded Avular

• Alex Rodrigues1 founding

  Co-founded Embark Trucks in 2016 as CEO; graduated from the University of Waterloo; was the youngest CEO of a publicly-traded autonomous trucking company.

  Founded Embark Trucks

• Alexander Bahr1 founding

  Co-founder of Hydromea. Expertise in underwater navigation and autonomous robotics from EPFL.

  Founded Hydromea

• Alisyn Malek1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO of May Mobility (departed); previously at General Motors.

  Founded May Mobility

• Amar Shah1 founding

  Co-founder and initial CEO of Wayve (2017-2020, departed); now Founder & Partner at Dhyan Ventures. PhD in machine learning from the University of Cambridge (Gh...

  Founded Wayve

• Ambarish Mitra1 founding

  Co-Founder of Greyparrot. Serial tech entrepreneur with decades of experience scaling AI systems globally.

  Founded Greyparrot

• Antoine Tournet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of DIODON Drone Technology. Led the company from a student project at ISAE-SUPAERO to a maritime UAV company serving defense and security cli...

  Founded DIODON Drone Technology

• Arij van der Lely1 founding

  Co-founder (with his brother Cornelis) of Lely in 1948 in Maassluis, the Dutch agricultural-machinery and dairy-robotics company. Deceased.

  Founded Lely

• Armen Arakelyan1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO at Ornadyne, building autonomous flapping-wing aircraft. Previously a Starship components engineer at SpaceX. Before that, led machining at USC...

  Founded Ornadyne

• Armin G. Schmidt1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of German Bionic. Led the company since its founding in 2017 through insolvency in 2025 and acquisition by Archimedes Partners in 2026.

  Founded German Bionic

• Aymeric Barthes1 founding

  Co-founder and former President/CEO of Naio Technologies (founded 2011); current status uncertain after the 2025 new-ownership relaunch (not named in the new le...

  Founded Naio Technologies

• Barry Greene1 founding

  Co-founder and medical advisor at Vicarious Surgical; board-certified bariatric and general surgeon with 25+ years of laparoscopic experience; provided the clin...

  Founded Vicarious Surgical

• Bernhard Mosling1 founding

  Co-founder of Oshkosh Corporation in 1917. Patented the front driving axle with improved steering and drive capacity (1915).

  Founded Oshkosh Corporation

• Biao Ma1 founding

  Co-founder of Cyngn (DriveMod industrial autonomy), where he served as VP of Engineering and helped take the company public; later founder and CEO of RoboForce.

  Founded Cyngn

• Bobby Murphy1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Snap Inc. Stanford University classmate of Evan Spiegel; oversees engineering and product development.

  Founded Snap Inc

• Brandon Alexander1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Iron Ox (autonomous greenhouse farming; wound down in 2023, rebranded Inevitable Tech); now an Entrepreneur in Residence at Crossli...

  Founded Iron Ox

• Brandon Moak1 founding

  Co-founded Embark Trucks in 2016 as CTO; University of Waterloo graduate.

  Founded Embark Trucks

• Brian Carlisle1 founding

  Stanford graduate student who co-founded Adept Technology in 1983 with Bruce Shimano and Victor Scheinman.

  Founded OMRON Adept

• Brian Davidson1 founding

  Former DARPA AI Lead, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Expert.

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Bruce Shimano1 founding

  Stanford graduate student who co-founded Adept Technology in 1983 with Brian Carlisle and Victor Scheinman, building on work at Stanford's AI lab.

  Founded OMRON Adept

• Bruce Welty1 founding

  Founder and former Chairman/CEO of Locus Robotics; previously co-founded AllPoints Systems (1987) and Quiet Logistics (2009), out of which Locus was spun. BA fr...

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Bruno Maisonnier1 founding

  Founder of Aldebaran Robotics (2005, Paris), the company behind the NAO humanoid robot and the Pepper social robot. SoftBank acquired Aldebaran in 2012 and rena...

  Founded SoftBank Robotics

• Bryan Webb1 founding

  Co-founder, CFO, and COO of Clearpath Robotics (founded 2009, Kitchener, Ontario). University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering graduate. Led finance, manufa...

  Founded Clearpath Robotics

• Cao Ying1 founding

  Co-founder of SEAHI Robotics. Served as professional judge at the First Harbin Engineering University Science Popularization Competition.

  Founded SEAHI Robotics

• Carlo Ratti1 founding

  Italian architect and designer, founder of CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati and MIT Senseable City Lab. Created the Makr Shakr robotic bartending system.

  Founded Makr Shakr

• Carlos Fernandez Isoird1 founding

  Founding partner and CEO of GOGOA Mobility Robots. Led the company from its H2020-funded HANK project to becoming the first European company to obtain CE Mark f...

  Founded GOGOA Mobility Robots

• Carter Hou1 founding

  Founder of Halliday, a Shenzhen-based wearable tech startup behind the DigiWindow smart glasses. Led the company through its CES 2025 debut and record-breaking ...

  Founded Halliday

• Charles Ng1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Primech AI, leading deployment operations for the Hytron cleaning robot across Singapore.

  Founded Primech AI

• Chen Chuqiang1 founding

  One of DJI's four original 2006 founding members who left the company around 2008.

  Founded DJI

• Chen Jinying1 founding

  One of DJI's four original 2006 founding members; departed around 2008 and later reunited with Lu Zhihui at MMC as director of R&D.

  Founded DJI

• Chen Xiaobo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SEAHI Robotics. Graduate of Harbin Engineering University with 18+ years in marine robotics. Youngest recipient of the First Prize in Nationa...

  Founded SEAHI Robotics

• Chris Chapman1 founding

  Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983.

  Founded Honeybee Robotics

• Christophe Sapet1 founding

  Founder of Navya (2014), the first company to commercialize autonomous shuttles (2015); a serial entrepreneur (Infonie, Infogrames). Ousted as CEO in 2018.

  Founded Navya

• Conor Walsh1 founding

  Co-founder of Verve Motion; Harvard professor and PI of the Harvard Biodesign Lab (Wyss Institute). The SafeLift exosuit commercializes his lab's research. Prim...

  Founded Verve Motion

• Cornelis van der Lely1 founding

  Co-founder (with his brother Arij) of Lely in 1948 in Maassluis, Netherlands; an inventor whose agricultural-machinery innovations grew into the maker of the As...

  Founded Lely

• Cynthia Breazeal1 founding

  Founder of Jibo.

  Founded Jibo

• Daniel Kan1 founding

  Co-founder and former CPO of Cruise (resigned 2023); later founded Fifth Door.

  Founded Cruise

• David Cummings1 founding

  Co-founder of Greenzie; an Atlanta serial entrepreneur best known for founding marketing-automation company Pardot and the Atlanta Ventures studio.

  Founded Greenzie

• Derckjan Kruit1 founding

  Co-founder of Mendix, established in 2005 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

  Founded Mendix

• Derek King1 founding

  Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team that commercialized AMRs for logistics.

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Derek Roos1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Mendix. Led the company through its acquisition by Siemens in 2018 for $730 million.

  Founded Mendix

• Dirk Pöschl1 founding

  Co-founder of German Bionic.

  Founded German Bionic

• Dmitry Oleynikov1 founding

  Co-founder of Virtual Incision (formed 2006); a surgeon (formerly University of Nebraska Medical Center) who co-developed the MIRA miniaturized in-vivo surgical...

  Founded Virtual Incision

• Don Mathis1 founding

  Pilot, Navy Flight Officer (Ret.), Cybersecurity Industry Veteran, Former Comcast Innovation Lead.

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Dr. Amit Goffer1 founding

  Founder of ReWalk Robotics (now Lifeward). Israeli electrical engineer and quadriplegic inventor who created the ReWalk exoskeleton after an ATV accident in 199...

  Founded Lifeward

• Dr. Fritz Faulhaber1 founding

  Founded FAULHABER in 1947 as a fine mechanics workshop in Schonaich, Germany. Invented the ironless DC micromotor, a milestone in precision mechanics.

  Founded FAULHABER

• Dr. Gery Colombo1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hocoma. A trained electrical and biomedical engineer who has led the company since its founding in 1996, driving innovation in robotic neu...

  Founded Hocoma

• Dr. Peter Heiligensetzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of German Bionic. Led the development of the Cray X, Apogee, and Exia exoskeleton platforms.

  Founded German Bionic

• Dr. Sai Zhang1 founding

  Founder and Executive Chairman of Robotphoenix. Born 1984. Led the company from founding in 2012 through its Hong Kong IPO in May 2026.

  Founded Robotphoenix

• Eric Diehr1 founding

  Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team.

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Eric Friedman1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Fitbit. Left Google in 2023 as part of Fitbit leadership departure.

  Founded Fitbit

• Eric Malawer1 founding

  Intelligence and Cybersecurity Expert.

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Eric Schweikardt1 founding

  Founder of Modular Robotics; invented the Cubelets modular robotic blocks while working on a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University.

  Founded Modular Robotics

• Erik Schluntz1 founding

  Co-founded Cobalt Robotics in 2016 as CTO; MIT graduate; hardware and systems engineering background.

  Founded Cobalt Robotics

• Esben Ostergaard1 founding

  Co-founder of Universal Robots in 2005 at the University of Southern Denmark. Pioneered the commercial collaborative robot market.

  Founded Universal Robots

• Etienne Lacroix1 founding

  Product-driven business leader and entrepreneur. Former GE product manager and McKinsey consultant. Founded Vention in 2016 to democratize industrial automation...

  Founded Vention

• Evan Spiegel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Stanford University product design alumnus; youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. Led Snap through its 2017 IPO on the NYSE...

  Founded Snap Inc

• Evan Tao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Chestnut Robotics (formerly TetherIA). Previously a core member of the dexterous hand team for Tesla Optimus and worked on Apple Vision Pr...

  Founded Chestnut Robotics

• Felix Schill1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Hydromea. Completed his Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. Leads underwater robotics and wireless communication t...

  Founded Hydromea

• Fraser Smith1 founding

  Longtime Sarcos employee who became President of Raytheon Sarcos after Jacobsen's departure in 2009. Co-led the 2015 management buyout from Raytheon with Ben Wo...

  Founded Sarcos Robotics

• Fred C. Mannix1 founding

  Canadian construction magnate who founded Loram Maintenance of Way in 1954; the name 'Loram' is a contraction of 'long-range Mannix'. Deceased.

  Founded Loram

• Frederic Moll1 founding

  Co-founder of Intuitive Surgical (historical); a pioneer of surgical robotics who also founded Hansen Medical and Auris Health (acquired by J&J). Currently a di...

  Founded Intuitive Surgical

• Frederic Moll1 founding

  Founder of Auris Health (acquired by J&J for $3.4B in 2019) and Intuitive Surgical, pioneer of robotic surgery. Developed the Monarch Platform for robotic-assis...

  Founded Auris Health

• Frederik Brantner1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Magazino GmbH, leading Munich-based mobile robotics company acquired by Jungheinrich AG in 2022.

  Founded Magazino

• Fredrik Karlsson1 founding

  CEO of Lifco AB from 1993 to 2018, architect of Lifco's serial acquisition model. Left in 2018 to co-found and lead Röko, a sector-agnostic serial acquirer.

  Founded Lifco AB

• Gabriel Dymowski1 founding

  Founder of Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket).

  Founded Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket)

• Gaetan Severac1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO/CTO of Naio Technologies (founded 2011); current status uncertain after the 2025 relaunch. Robotics degree from IMERIR (Perpignan) and...

  Founded Naio Technologies

• Gavin Kenneally1 founding

  Co-founded Ghost Robotics in 2015 with Avik De after their PhDs at Carnegie Mellon; served as President until departing around 2022.

  Founded Ghost Robotics

• George M. Whitesides1 founding

  Harvard chemist whose research group pioneered soft robotics; founded Soft Robotics Inc. (2012), now rebranded Oxipital AI, which commercialized soft pneumatic ...

  Founded Oxipital AI

• Geourg Kivijian1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Ornadyne. Award-winning engineer (IEEE/AIAA) recognized for pioneering work in flapping-wing robotics. Previously led coordination systems f...

  Founded Ornadyne

• Guidong Chu1 founding

  Co-founder and CFO of R-Storm Technology, a Cambridge, MA-based robotics company developing high-altitude cleaning robots.

  Founded R-Storm Technology

• Han Fengtao1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of ROKAE Robotics. Oversees the xCore control system platform and embodied AI technology development.

  Founded Rokae

• Hans Moravec1 founding

  Co-founder Seegrid; Carnegie Mellon robotics pioneer; developed stereo vision-based navigation for industrial vehicles.

  Founded Seegrid

• Harri Valpola1 founding

  Founder and principal scientist of ZenRobotics; pioneered AI-based waste sorting technology based on his research in machine learning and computational neurosci...

  Founded ZenRobotics

• He Xiangjian1 founding

  Founded Midea Group in 1968, building it from a bottle cap workshop into one of the worlds largest appliance manufacturers and a major robotics player via the K...

  Founded Midea Group

• Howard Paul1 founding

  Howard 'Hap' Paul was a veterinarian who co-developed the ROBODOC surgical robot with Dr. William Bargar at the University of California, Davis.

  Founded ROBODOC

• Hung Bui1 founding

  Founder of VinAI.

  Founded VinAI

• Ian Wright1 founding

  Co-founder of Tesla (one of the earliest team members, 2003-2004); later founded electric-powertrain company Wrightspeed.

  Founded Tesla

• Ilan Penn1 founding

  Co-Founder of Chip Motors. Previously at Tier (micromobility), Fantasmo (mapping), and South Park Commons. USC graduate.

  Founded Chip Motors

• James Park1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Fitbit. Led company through IPO and Google $2.1B acquisition. Left Google in 2023.

  Founded Fitbit

• Jameson Detweiler1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Chip Motors, developing the Chip Life Utility Vehicle (LUV) in Miami. Plans to add autonomous driving features including self-parking and err...

  Founded Chip Motors

• Jason Walker1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Waypoint Robotics. Led the company through its acquisition by Locus Robotics in 2022.

  Founded Waypoint Robotics

• Jay Xiao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Tensor Auto (formerly AutoX). Led the company from robotaxi operations to personal robocar development. Holds California's second-ever driver...

  Founded Tensor Auto

• Jayakrishnan T1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Asimov Robotics, a top 10 robotics company in India. Acquired by Zoho Corporation for deeptech R&D.

  Founded Asimov Robotics

• JB Straubel1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Tesla (2004-2019); subsequently founded and is CEO of battery-recycling company Redwood Materials, and sits on Tesla's board.

  Founded Tesla

• Jerome Dubois1 founding

  Co-founded 6 River Systems in 2015 as co-CEO; previously at Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics) as director of operations.

  Founded 6 River Systems

• Jesse Lyu1 founding

  Founder of Rabbit Inc.

  Founded Rabbit Inc

• Joe Augenbraun1 founding

  Founder of Neato Robotics, a Stanford grad student who started the robot vacuum company using LiDAR-based navigation technology.

  Founded Neato Robotics

• Johann Vaillant1 founding

  Founded Vaillant in 1874 as a master fitter's business in Remscheid, Germany. Patented the first closed-system gas-fired bathroom boiler in 1894.

  Founded Vaillant Group

• John A. Swanson1 founding

  American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Ansys (as Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.) in 1970 after leaving Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory; John Fritz ...

  Founded Ansys

• John Capodilupo1 founding

  Co-founder of WHOOP and its CTO until 2022.

  Founded Whoop

• John Freund1 founding

  Physician-investor who co-founded Intuitive Surgical in 1995 and negotiated the foundational SRI International surgical-technology license; later founded ventur...

  Founded Intuitive Surgical

• John Thornton1 founding

  CEO of Astrobotic since 2009; co-founder and key executive who grew the company from a CMU robotics lab project to a NASA CLPS partner.

  Founded Astrobotic Technology

• Jon Binney1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Iron Ox; previously a research engineer at Willow Garage (the lab that produced the PR2 robot and ROS). PhD in robotics from USC.

  Founded Iron Ox

• Jordan Noone1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Relativity Space; left the company in 2020.

  Founded Relativity Space

• Jorge Heraud1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Blue River Technology, acquired by John Deere for $305M in 2017. Now CEO of TerraBlaster.

  Founded Blue River Technology

• Jun Pei1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Cepton (2016-2023); physicist and entrepreneur; led Cepton from founding to acquisition by Continental AG (closed June 2023). Cepton devel...

  Founded Cepton

• Junghee Ryu1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur and KAIST PhD. Previously founded Olaworks (acquired by Intel in Intel's first Korean startup acquisition) and FuturePlay. Now leading RLWRL...

  Founded RLWRLD

• Karl Storz1 founding

  Founder of KARL STORZ, established in Tuttlingen, Germany in 1945. Pioneer of cold light illumination technology for medical endoscopes, transforming minimally ...

  Founded Karl Storz SE & Co. KG

• Keith Gunura1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of noonee, developed the Chairless Chair concept at ETH Zurich in 2009. Born in Zimbabwe, holds M.Sc in Nuclear Engineering and BEng in Mecha...

  Founded Noonee

• Ken Ho1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of Primech Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: PMEC). Founded Primech AI in 2024 as a subsidiary to develop autonomous cleaning robotics.

  Founded Primech AI

• Kuldar Väärsi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Milrem Robotics, Estonia's leading defense robotics company. EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 class member from Estonia.

  Founded Milrem Robotics

• Kyle Vogt1 founding

  Founder and former CEO of Cruise (resigned 2023); co-founder of Twitch. In 2024 founded household-robot company The Bot Company.

  Founded Cruise

• Lars Schmitz1 founding

  Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.

  Founded AgXeed

• Lauren Fletcher1 founding

  Engineer and scientist; co-founder of Dendra Systems (originally BioCarbon Engineering); previously spent over 20 years at NASA.

  Founded Dendra Systems

• Limor Fried1 founding

  Founder of Adafruit Industries.

  Founded Adafruit Industries

• Lu Zhihui1 founding

  One of DJI's four original 2006 founding members and its youngest; left around 2008 and later co-founded rival drone maker MMC.

  Founded DJI

• Lukas Zanger1 founding

  Co-founder of Magazino GmbH, Munich-based mobile robotics company.

  Founded Magazino

• Maor Farid1 founding

  Co-founder of Flytrex, building autonomous drone delivery systems for food and retail.

  Founded Flytrex

• Marc Tarpenning1 founding

  Co-founder of Tesla (2003); co-founded NuvoMedia with Martin Eberhard before Tesla. Now a venture investor.

  Founded Tesla

• Mark D Gross1 founding

  Co-founder of Modular Robotics; academic researcher in computational design and modular robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.

  Founded Modular Robotics

• Mark McCord1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Cepton (2016-2023); optical engineer and research scientist; co-developed Cepton's patented MMT LiDAR architecture with Jun Pei. Post-acqu...

  Founded Cepton

• Mark Telford1 founding

  Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with his wife Nicola), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm; stepped down as managing director ...

  Founded Forth Engineering

• Markus Hutter1 founding

  Co-founder of ANYbotics (2016) and Professor at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab. Co-inventor of the ANYmal quadruped platform. Scientific advisor to ANYbotics ...

  Founded ANYbotics

• Martin Eberhard1 founding

  Co-founder and first CEO of Tesla (2003-2007); previously founded NuvoMedia. An electrical engineer who later worked in EV powertrain ventures.

  Founded Tesla

• Martin Frost1 founding

  Co-founded CMR Surgical in 2014 and served as CEO. CBE recipient with over 20 years of commercial leadership experience.

  Founded CMR Surgical

• Masuo Tadano1 founding

  Founded Tadano Ltd. in 1948 in Takamatsu, Japan, starting as a steel fabricator in 1919 before manufacturing cargo handling equipment and eventually becoming Ja...

  Founded Tadano

• Matt Sloane1 founding

  Pilot, 10+ year Industry Expert, EMS Chief (Ret.), Former CNN Medical News Producer.

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Matthias Jörg1 founding

  Co-founder of Hocoma, a biomedical engineer who helped establish the company in 1996 alongside Gery Colombo and Peter Hostettler.

  Founded Hocoma

• Max Windisch1 founding

  Co-founded Vention in 2016 with Etienne Lacroix to build a cloud-based manufacturing automation platform.

  Founded Vention

• Melonee Wise1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Fetch Robotics (founded 2014), San Jose-based AMR company acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2021 for $290M. Previously a software engineer...

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Michael Ferguson1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; co-authored the Fetch & Freight robotics platform. Expertise in robot software robustness and ease-...

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Michael Fleming1 founding

  Co-founded Torc Robotics in 2005 at Virginia Tech and served as CEO through the 2019 Daimler Truck acquisition; led the transition to an autonomous trucking foc...

  Founded Torc Robotics

• Michael Halbherr1 founding

  Co-founder of German Bionic.

  Founded German Bionic

• Mick Mountz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Kiva Systems (acquired by Amazon in 2012, became Amazon Robotics); previously at Webvan, whose collapse inspired the Kiva mobile-robotic-fulf...

  Founded Kiva Systems

• Mike Dooley1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Labrador Systems, developing personal assistive robots for the home. Previously held leadership roles at iRobot.

  Founded Labrador Systems

• Mikela Druckman1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Greyparrot, leading the company since 2019. Drives the vision of digitizing the waste value chain with AI.

  Founded Greyparrot

• Mikk Murumäe1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Threod Systems. Oversees product development including the Eos UAV series and Cata launcher systems. Led the development of the first VTOL...

  Founded Threod Systems

• Miles Lowell Edwards1 founding

  Miles Lowell Edwards was an electrical engineer who founded Edwards Lifesciences in 1958 and invented the first medically proven and adopted artificial heart va...

  Founded Edwards Lifesciences

• Misa Zhu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Rokid. Also known as Zhu Mingming. Previously worked in AI and smart hardware before founding Rokid in 2014.

  Founded Rokid

• Muzavar Faraaz Baig1 founding

  Co-founder of Airbound.

  Founded Airbound

• Naman Pushp1 founding

  Founded Airbound in 2020 at age 15. Turned down admission to Carnegie Mellon University to pursue drone development. 20 years old as of Oct 2025.

  Founded Airbound

• Nathan Harding1 founding

  Co-founded Ekso Bionics in 2005 alongside Russ Angold; later served as CEO through the company's Nasdaq listing.

  Founded Ekso Bionics

• Nicholas Wagner1 founding

  Co-founder of Opentrons, the open-source laboratory liquid-handling robotics company.

  Founded Opentrons

• Nikola Sivacki1 founding

  Co-Founder and Head of Deep Learning at Greyparrot. Leads the AI/ML engineering behind the waste recognition models.

  Founded Greyparrot

• Noah McGuinness1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of TerraFirma. Former SpaceX engineer who worked on the Starshield government satellite program. Princeton engineering graduate.

  Founded TerraFirma

• Noah Schochet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of TerraFirma. Former SpaceX engineer who worked on Starlink and Starship programs. Princeton engineering graduate.

  Founded TerraFirma

• Oh Jun-ho1 founding

  Professor at KAIST HUBO Lab and co-founder of Rainbow Robotics. Developed the HUBO humanoid robot platform.

  Founded Rainbow Robotics

• Pat Martinson1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Hardware at Clearpath Robotics (founded 2009, Kitchener, Ontario). University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering graduate. One of four co...

  Founded Clearpath Robotics

• Paul W. Broome1 founding

  Founder of ENSCO, Inc. (engineering, science, and technology firm; founded 1969), whose ENSCO Rail division pioneered autonomous track-inspection systems.

  Founded ENSCO

• Peter Chen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024 as part of Amazon's license-and-hire deal.

  Founded Covariant

• Peter Hostettler1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hocoma. An economist who helped establish the company in 1996.

  Founded Hocoma

• Peter Wurman1 founding

  Computer scientist; co-founder and CTO of Kiva Systems; later director of research at Sony AI, leading the Gran Turismo Sophy project.

  Founded Kiva Systems

• Pieter Abbeel1 founding

  Co-founder of Covariant and professor at UC Berkeley; joined Amazon in August 2024 when Amazon licensed Covariant's models and hired several of its founders. Ph...

  Founded Covariant

• Puru Rastogi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mowito. Previously built autonomous helicopters and studied robotics at Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Near Earth Autonomy.

  Founded Mowito

• Qian Dongqi1 founding

  Founder of Ecovacs Robotics in 1998, building the Chinese home robotics company into a publicly listed enterprise with over 60% of the Chinese robot vacuum mark...

  Founded Ecovacs Robotics

• Ray Stata1 founding

  Co-founder of Analog Devices, Inc. (founded 1965) alongside Matthew Lorber, both MIT graduates. Stata served as CEO from founding until 1996 and as Executive Ch...

  Founded Analog Devices

• Reggie Brown1 founding

  Co-founder of Snapchat credited with the original concept. Settled with Snap for $157.5M in 2014 after a lawsuit over his role in the company.

  Founded Snap Inc

• Ric Fulop1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Desktop Metal, committed to accelerating manufacturing transformation with metal 3D printing. Led company through SPAC IPO, Nano Dimension...

  Founded Desktop Metal

• Ricardo Beira1 founding

  Co-founder of Distalmotion; from the EPFL Robotics Lab (PhD, EPFL).

  Founded Distalmotion

• Richard Greenhill1 founding

  Founder of Shadow Robot Company, pioneering dexterous robotic hand technology in London since 1987.

  Founded Shadow Robot Company

• Richard Palfinger1 founding

  Founder of PALFINGER in 1932. Established the company in Bergheim, Salzburg, Austria as a crane and lifting solutions manufacturer.

  Founded Palfinger

• Richard Zhang1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Primech AI, architect of the Hytron autonomous toilet cleaning robot platform powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin Super.

  Founded Primech AI

• Rienk Landstra1 founding

  Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.

  Founded AgXeed

• Roald Kruit1 founding

  Co-founder of Mendix. A freelance software developer who noticed the communication disconnect between developers and business users, inspiring the visual low-co...

  Founded Mendix

• Rob Goldiez1 founding

  Co-founder of Hirebotics (2015) and its longtime CEO; led the cobot-systems company for over a decade before retiring in 2026.

  Founded Hirebotics

• Robert Younge1 founding

  Electrical engineer who co-founded Intuitive Surgical in 1995 and led early technical development of the da Vinci system as its first CTO; previously co-founded...

  Founded Intuitive Surgical

• Rocky Duan1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024.

  Founded Covariant

• Rodolphe Hasselvander1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Blue Frog Robotics, creator of BUDDY the emotional companion robot. Key figure in social robotics, also co-founder of CRIIF, RobotLab, and...

  Founded Blue Frog Robotics

• Roger Hine1 founding

  Founder of Liquid Robotics, created the Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle for long-duration ocean data collection.

  Founded Liquid Robotics

• Roman Luciani1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of DIODON Drone Technology. Leads technical development of inflatable, waterproof maritime drone systems.

  Founded DIODON Drone Technology

• Russ Angold1 founding

  Co-founded Ekso Bionics (then Berkeley Bionics) as a spinout from UC Berkeley in 2005; served as first CEO.

  Founded Ekso Bionics

• Safar V1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Mowito. Graduate of IIT Madras (mechanical engineering). Previously at Tata Steel as management trainee.

  Founded Mowito

• Sami Haddadin1 founding

  Co-founder of Franka Emika (2016, Munich), now Franka Robotics. Created the Franka Panda (later FR3) torque-controlled 7-DOF robot arm, pioneering affordable co...

  Founded Franka Robotics

• Sammy Khalifa1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Vicarious Surgical (2014-2024); met CEO Adam Sachs as MIT undergraduates. Previously at Apple. Led hardware and software development of th...

  Founded Vicarious Surgical

• Sander Pop1 founding

  Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.

  Founded AgXeed

• Scott LaValley1 founding

  Founder of Cartwheel Robotics.

  Founded Cartwheel Robotics

• Seiuemon Inaba1 founding

  Founder and long-time President & CEO of FANUC Corporation. Joined Fujitsu (then Fuji Tsushinki) in 1946 and developed Japan's first numerical control (NC) syst...

  Founded FANUC Corporation

• Simon Haddadin1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Franka Emika (2016-2023), now Franka Robotics. Brother of Sami Haddadin. Led the company's commercialization of the Franka Panda ar...

  Founded Franka Robotics

• Stephen Jacobsen1 founding

  University of Utah professor and bioengineer who founded Sarcos Research Corporation in 1983. Pioneered powered exoskeletons and animatronic robotics. Left the ...

  Founded Sarcos Robotics

• Sterling Anderson1 founding

  Co-founder of Aurora (departed June 2025 to become Chief Product Officer of General Motors); previously head of Tesla Autopilot.

  Founded Aurora Innovation

• Steve Gorevan1 founding

  Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983. Pioneered planetary drilling and sampling systems for NASA missions.

  Founded Honeybee Robotics

• Steve Reinharz1 founding

  Founder, CEO, and CTO of AITX and RAD. Former security integration entrepreneur in Los Angeles who built and sold an integrator to Securitas. Worked with Nvidia...

  Founded Robotic Assistance Devices

• Terry Gou1 founding

  Founder of Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry, 1974); stepped down as chairman in 2019. Later ran for President of Taiwan.

  Founded Foxconn (Hon Hai)

• Théophile Gervet1 founding

  Former research scientist at Mistral AI. Co-founder of Genesis AI, building physical AI and robotics foundation models.

  Founded Genesis AI

• Tokuo Kubo1 founding

  Co-founded Tokyo Electron (then Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc.) in November 1963.

  Founded Tokyo Electron

• Tony Z. Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics. Stanford CS PhD dropout (advised by Chelsea Finn), previously worked at Google DeepMind and Tesla Autopilot. Creator of t...

  Founded Sunday Robotics

• Tully Foote1 founding

  Co-created TurtleBot at Willow Garage in 2010. ROS developer and robotics researcher.

  Founded TurtleBot

• Tuo Hua1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ROKAE Robotics. Established the company in 2015 in Beijing, leading its growth from startup to HKEX-listed public company (3752.HK).

  Founded Rokae

• Tuomas Lukka1 founding

  Co-founder of ZenRobotics and software architect behind the ZenRobotics Recycler platform.

  Founded ZenRobotics

• Vipin Jain1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Blendid, developing autonomous robotic smoothie kiosks. Seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

  Founded Blendid

• Wang Dongsheng1 founding

  Founder of BOE Technology Group in 1993. Previously led the transformation of Beijing Electron Tube Factory into the world's largest display manufacturer.

  Founded BOE Technology

• William Bargar1 founding

  Dr. William Bargar is an orthopedic surgeon who co-developed the ROBODOC surgical robot with Howard Paul at the University of California, Davis in 1986, pioneer...

  Founded ROBODOC

• William Besserdich1 founding

  Co-founder of Oshkosh Corporation (originally Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company) in 1917. Patented the four-wheel drive system and automatic locking differential.

  Founded Oshkosh Corporation

• Yariv Bash1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, pioneering FAA-approved backyard drone delivery. Previously founded Flytrex in 2013.

  Founded Flytrex

• Yashi Pushp1 founding

  Co-founder of Airbound.

  Founded Airbound

• Yuanbo She1 founding

  Founder, CEO, and robot system architect at AICRobo.

  Founded AICRobo

• Zhao Ming1 founding

  Founder and CEO of YOGO Robot. Established the company in 2016 in Shanghai, focusing on autonomous service and delivery robots for commercial indoor environment...

  Founded YOGO Robot

• Zhou Xian1 founding

  PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Co-founder and CEO of Genesis AI, building universal robotics foundation models.

  Founded Genesis AI

• Ziv Aviram1 founding

  Co-founder and former President/CEO of Mobileye (no current operational role); co-founder and CEO of OrCam.

  Founded Mobileye