Robotics network
The the Bay Area robotics network
48 verified connections link the Bay Area's robotics companies: 41 spinouts and 7 acquisitions.
Spinout (talent flow)
Acquisition
Spinouts
- Nuro · Jiajun Zhu founded Nuro · from waymo
- Dyna Robotics · Jason Ma founded Dyna Robotics · from nvidia
- Dyna Robotics · Jason Ma founded Dyna Robotics · from meta
- Cruise · Kyle Vogt founded Cruise · from the-bot-company
- Zipline · Keenan Wyrobek founded Zipline · from willow-garage
- Kiwibot · Felipe Chavez Cortes founded Kiwibot · from robot-dot-com
- Cartken · Christian Bersch founded Cartken · from google
- Cartken · Jake Stelman founded Cartken · from meta
- Monarch Tractor · Mark Schwager founded Monarch Tractor · from zoox
- Kodiak AI · Don Burnette founded Kodiak AI · from google
- Kodiak AI · Don Burnette founded Kodiak AI · from kodiak-robotics
- Iron Ox · Brandon Alexander founded Iron Ox · from wing
- Built Robotics · Noah Ready-Campbell founded Built Robotics · from google
- Figure AI · Brett Adcock founded Figure AI · from hark
- Figure AI · Brett Adcock founded Figure AI · from archer-aviation
- Generalist AI · Pete Florence founded Generalist AI · from google
- Skydio · Adam Bry founded Skydio · from wing
- Cobalt Robotics · Travis Deyle founded Cobalt Robotics · from cobalt-ai
- Fetch Robotics · Melonee Wise founded Fetch Robotics · from turtlebot
- Fetch Robotics · Melonee Wise founded Fetch Robotics · from willow-garage
- Relay Robotics · Steve Cousins founded Relay Robotics · from savioke
- Relay Robotics · Steve Cousins founded Relay Robotics · from willow-garage
- Simbe Robotics · Mirza Akbar Shah founded Simbe Robotics · from willow-garage
- Pronto · Anthony Levandowski founded Pronto · from google
- Cyngn · Biao Ma founded Cyngn · from roboforce
- Bedrock Robotics · Boris Sofman founded Bedrock Robotics · from waymo
- Kodiak Robotics · Don Burnette founded Kodiak Robotics · from kodiak
- Kodiak Robotics · Don Burnette founded Kodiak Robotics · from google
- Cobalt AI · Travis Deyle founded Cobalt AI · from cobalt-robotics
- TurtleBot · Melonee Wise founded TurtleBot · from willow-garage
- TurtleBot · Melonee Wise founded TurtleBot · from fetch-robotics
- Matician · Mehul Nariyawala founded Matician · from google
- Savioke · Steve Cousins founded Savioke · from willow-garage
- Savioke · Steve Cousins founded Savioke · from relay-robotics
- Sunday · Tony Zhao founded Sunday · from sunday-robotics
- Hark · Brett Adcock founded Hark · from figure-ai
- Hark · Brett Adcock founded Hark · from archer-aviation
- Sunday Robotics · Cheng Chi founded Sunday Robotics · from sunday
- OpenAI · Sam Altman founded OpenAI · from openai-startup-fund
- OpenAI · Sam Altman founded OpenAI · from openai-robotics
- Gritt · Puneet Puri founded Gritt · from gritt-robotics
Acquisitions
Common questions
How are the Bay Area's robotics companies connected?
48 verified connections link the Bay Area's robotics companies: 41 spinouts and 7 acquisitions. A spinout is a founder who came from one the Bay Area company and started another; an acquisition is one the Bay Area company buying another. Every edge is a verified relationship in the DEPLOY registry.
What is a robotics ecosystem network?
It maps the relationships between companies, not just their locations: who spun out of whom, and who acquired whom. It is built from the verified people graph and acquisitions in the DEPLOY registry.
Explore more: the the Bay Area ecosystem map, all founder-lineage trees, and all robotics maps.