Robotics network
The California robotics network
121 verified connections link California's robotics companies: 109 spinouts and 12 acquisitions.
Spinout (talent flow)
Acquisition
Spinouts
- Covariant · Pieter Abbeel founded Covariant · from embodied-intelligence
- Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey founded Anduril Industries · from oculus-vr
- Dyna Robotics · Jason Ma founded Dyna Robotics · from nvidia
- Dyna Robotics · Jason Ma founded Dyna Robotics · from meta
- Intuitive Surgical · Frederic Moll founded Intuitive Surgical · from auris-health
- Cruise · Kyle Vogt founded Cruise · from the-bot-company
- Nuro · Jiajun Zhu founded Nuro · from waymo
- Archetype AI · Ivan Poupyrev founded Archetype AI · from google
- Kiwibot · David Rodriguez founded Kiwibot · from robot-dot-com
- Cartken · Christian Bersch founded Cartken · from google
- Cartken · Jake Stelman founded Cartken · from meta
- NVIDIA · Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA · from nvidia-isaac
- Monarch Tractor · Mark Schwager founded Monarch Tractor · from zoox
- Iron Ox · Brandon Alexander founded Iron Ox · from wing
- Built Robotics · Noah Ready-Campbell founded Built Robotics · from google
- Grid Aero · Arthur Dubois founded Grid Aero · from joby-aviation
- Groq · Jonathan Ross founded Groq · from google
- Uber · Travis Kalanick founded Uber · from atoms
- Inworld AI · Ilya Gelfenbeyn founded Inworld AI · from google
- SpaceX · Elon Musk founded SpaceX · from neuralink
- SpaceX · Elon Musk founded SpaceX · from paypal
- Figure AI · Brett Adcock founded Figure AI · from hark
- Figure AI · Brett Adcock founded Figure AI · from archer-aviation
- Field AI · Ali Agha founded Field AI · from fieldai
- Generalist AI · Pete Florence founded Generalist AI · from google
- Physical Intelligence · Adnan Esmail founded Physical Intelligence · from anduril
- Skydio · Adam Bry founded Skydio · from wing
- Otto · Anthony Levandowski founded Otto · from google
- Otto · Anthony Levandowski founded Otto · from pronto
- Founders Fund · Peter Thiel founded Founders Fund · from paypal
- Also · RJ Scaringe founded Also · from mind-robotics
- Dulo · Sebastian Thrun founded Dulo · from waymo
- Dulo · Sebastian Thrun founded Dulo · from stanford-university
- Otto · Don Burnette founded Otto · from kodiak
- Otto · Don Burnette founded Otto · from kodiak-robotics
- Dexmate · Yuzhe Qin founded Dexmate · from nvidia
- Cobalt Robotics · Travis Deyle founded Cobalt Robotics · from cobalt-ai
- 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
- Venturi Astrolab · Jaret Matthews founded Venturi Astrolab · from spacex
- Pronto · Anthony Levandowski founded Pronto · from google
- Pronto · Anthony Levandowski founded Pronto · from otto-uber-self-driving
- Nervana Systems · Arjun Bansal founded Nervana Systems · from intel
- Cyngn · Biao Ma founded Cyngn · from roboforce
- Mind Robotics · RJ Scaringe founded Mind Robotics · from also
- Bedrock Robotics · Boris Sofman founded Bedrock Robotics · from waymo
- RoboForce · Biao Ma founded RoboForce · from cyngn
- Robot.com · Felipe Chavez Cortes founded Robot.com · from kiwibot
- Apex Space · Max Benassi founded Apex Space · from spacex
- Apex Space · Max Benassi founded Apex Space · from astra
- Beam · Scott Hassan founded Beam · from willow-garage
- Kodiak Robotics · Don Burnette founded Kodiak Robotics · from kodiak
- Kodiak Robotics · Don Burnette founded Kodiak Robotics · from google
- Kodiak Robotics · Don Burnette founded Kodiak Robotics · from otto-uber-self-driving
- Rhoda AI · Jagdeep Singh founded Rhoda AI · from quantumscape
- Cobalt AI · Travis Deyle founded Cobalt AI · from cobalt-robotics
- TurtleBot · Melonee Wise founded TurtleBot · from fetch-robotics
- TurtleBot · Melonee Wise founded TurtleBot · from willow-garage
- Matician · Mehul Nariyawala founded Matician · from google
- Perennial Autonomy · Eric Schmidt founded Perennial Autonomy · from google
- Hop Aero · Jacob Balaj founded Hop Aero · from spacex
- Hop Aero · Jacob Balaj founded Hop Aero · from spinlaunch
- Singularity · Jack Oswald founded Singularity · from spacex
- Singularity · Shail Giroux founded Singularity · from anduril
- ATOMS · Travis Kalanick founded ATOMS · from uber
- Intuitive Surgical · Fred Moll founded Intuitive Surgical · from neptune-medical
- Inversion Space · Justin Fiaschetti founded Inversion Space · from spacex
- Inversion Space · Justin Fiaschetti founded Inversion Space · from relativity-space
- Waymo · Sebastian Thrun founded Waymo · from dulo
- Waymo · Sebastian Thrun founded Waymo · from stanford-university
- Willow Garage · Scott Hassan founded Willow Garage · from beam
- World Labs · Justin Johnson founded World Labs · from meta
- World Labs · Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs · from google
- World Labs · Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs · from stanford-hai
- Neuralink · Elon Musk founded Neuralink · from spacex
- Neuralink · Elon Musk founded Neuralink · from paypal
- Hark · Brett Adcock founded Hark · from figure-ai
- Hark · Brett Adcock founded Hark · from archer-aviation
- Oculus VR · Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR · from anduril
- OpenAI · Sam Altman founded OpenAI · from openai-startup-fund
- OpenAI · Sam Altman founded OpenAI · from openai-robotics
- Auris Health · Frederic Moll founded Auris Health · from intuitive-surgical
- B Capital · Eduardo Saverin founded B Capital · from meta
- Turion Space · Ryan Westerdahl founded Turion Space · from spacex
- Science Corp · Max Hodak founded Science Corp · from neuralink
- Neuralink · Max Hodak founded Neuralink · from science-corp
- Sancho Robotics · Jack Yang founded Sancho Robotics · from nuro
- Archer Aviation · Brett Adcock founded Archer Aviation · from figure-ai
- Archer Aviation · Brett Adcock founded Archer Aviation · from hark
- Auris Health · Fred Moll founded Auris Health · from neptune-medical
- The Bot Company · Kyle Vogt founded The Bot Company · from cruise
- Embodied · Paolo Pirjanian founded Embodied · from evolution-robotics
- Ike · Alden Woodrow founded Ike · from uber
- Ike · Nancy Sun founded Ike · from google
- Ike · Nancy Sun founded Ike · from apple
- Embodied · Maja Mataric founded Embodied · from usc-robotics
- Rivian · RJ Scaringe founded Rivian · from mind-robotics
- Rivian · RJ Scaringe founded Rivian · from also
- Google · Larry Page founded Google · from alphabet
- Atom Computing · Ben Bloom founded Atom Computing · from intel
- Kodiak AI · Don Burnette founded Kodiak AI · from google
- Kodiak AI · Don Burnette founded Kodiak AI · from kodiak-robotics
- Kodiak AI · Don Burnette founded Kodiak AI · from otto-uber-self-driving
- Zipline · Keenan Wyrobek founded Zipline · from willow-garage
- Savioke · Steve Cousins founded Savioke · from willow-garage
- Savioke · Steve Cousins founded Savioke · from relay-robotics
- Fetch Robotics · Melonee Wise founded Fetch Robotics · from turtlebot
- Fetch Robotics · Melonee Wise founded Fetch Robotics · from willow-garage
Acquisitions
- meta acquired oculus-vr
- nuro acquired ike-robotics
- ouster acquired velodyne-lidar
- google acquired fitbit
- pronto acquired safeai
- amd acquired world-labs
- uber acquired otto-uber-self-driving
- intrinsic acquired vicarious
- hp-inc acquired humane
- rocket-lab acquired motiv-space-systems
- intel acquired nervana-systems
- intel acquired movidius
Common questions
How are California's robotics companies connected?
121 verified connections link California's robotics companies: 109 spinouts and 12 acquisitions. A spinout is a founder who came from one California company and started another; an acquisition is one California 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 California ecosystem map, all founder-lineage trees, and all robotics maps.