Founder lineage

Where robotics founders came from

The robotics diaspora: 83 companies whose alumni went on to found 261 of their own robotics companies. Every branch is a verified role plus a verified founding.

• The Google diaspora19 companies
• The Tesla diaspora14 companies
• The SpaceX diaspora10 companies
• The Waymo diaspora9 companies
• The Meta diaspora8 companies
• The Amazon diaspora7 companies
• The Baidu diaspora7 companies
• The Willow Garage diaspora7 companies
• The Anduril Industries diaspora4 companies
• The Uber diaspora4 companies
• The Neuralink diaspora4 companies
• The PayPal diaspora4 companies
• The Boston Dynamics diaspora4 companies
• The SoftBank Robotics diaspora4 companies
• The Aldebaran Robotics diaspora4 companies
• The Google DeepMind diaspora3 companies
• The NVIDIA diaspora3 companies
• The XPeng Robotics diaspora3 companies
• The Dogotix diaspora3 companies
• The NASA diaspora3 companies
• The Amazon Prime Air diaspora3 companies
• The Prometheus diaspora3 companies
• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology diaspora3 companies
• The Clearpath Robotics diaspora3 companies
• The iRobot diaspora3 companies
• The OTTO Motors diaspora3 companies
• The Ridgeback (Clearpath) diaspora3 companies
• The Otto diaspora3 companies
• The Stargate Infrastructure diaspora3 companies
• The Figure AI diaspora3 companies
• The Carnegie Mellon University diaspora3 companies
• The D-Wave Quantum diaspora2 companies
• The Robot.com diaspora2 companies
• The Yandex diaspora2 companies
• The Wing diaspora2 companies
• The Baidu AI Cloud diaspora2 companies
• The China Mobile diaspora2 companies
• The Technion Robotics Lab diaspora2 companies
• The 1X Technologies diaspora2 companies
• The XPeng diaspora2 companies
• The Microsoft diaspora2 companies
• The xAI diaspora2 companies
• The Hark diaspora2 companies
• The Archer Aviation diaspora2 companies
• The Kiva Systems diaspora2 companies
• The Rethink Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Relativity Space diaspora2 companies
• The AutoFlight diaspora2 companies
• The Mind Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Rollo Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Stanford University diaspora2 companies
• The Kodiak AI diaspora2 companies
• The Kodiak Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Amazon Data Services diaspora2 companies
• The Scale AI diaspora2 companies
• The Clearpath Robotics / OTTO Motors diaspora2 companies
• The NAO Robot diaspora2 companies
• The University of Oxford diaspora2 companies
• The Intel Corporation diaspora2 companies
• The Alibaba Group diaspora2 companies
• The Cainiao Network diaspora2 companies
• The Also diaspora2 companies
• The Waabi diaspora2 companies
• The ASI Mining diaspora2 companies
• The AgiBot diaspora2 companies
• The BYD Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Bezos Expeditions diaspora2 companies
• The Kawasaki Shipbuilding diaspora2 companies
• The Kawasaki Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The BGI Genomics diaspora2 companies
• The BGI Group diaspora2 companies
• The Agility Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Alibaba DAMO Academy diaspora2 companies
• The EndoQuest Robotics diaspora2 companies
• The Neptune Medical diaspora2 companies
• The EASE diaspora2 companies
• The Kawasaki Heavy Industries diaspora2 companies
• The Activelink (Panasonic Group) diaspora2 companies
• The DJI diaspora2 companies
• The University of Tokyo diaspora2 companies
• The Hesai Technology diaspora2 companies
• The Sharpa diaspora2 companies
• The Pandar LiDAR diaspora2 companies

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