Robotics network
The California robotics network
59 verified connections link California's robotics companies: 50 spinouts and 9 acquisitions.
Spinout (talent flow)
Acquisition
Spinouts
- Nuro · Jiajun Zhu founded Nuro · from waymo
- 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
- 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
- Neros · Soren Monroe-Anderson founded Neros · from neros-technologies
- 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
- SpaceX · Elon Musk founded SpaceX · from neuralink
- 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
- Physical Intelligence · Adnan Esmail founded Physical Intelligence · from anduril
- 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
- Venturi Astrolab · Jaret Matthews founded Venturi Astrolab · from spacex
- 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
- Perennial Autonomy · Eric Schmidt founded Perennial Autonomy · from google
- Neuralink · Elon Musk founded Neuralink · from spacex
- Sunday · Tony Zhao founded Sunday · from sunday-robotics
- 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
- 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
- Neros Technologies · Olaf Hichwa founded Neros Technologies · from neros
- Gritt · Puneet Puri founded Gritt · from gritt-robotics
Acquisitions
- meta acquired oculus-vr
- uber acquired otto-uber-self-driving
- google acquired fitbit
- intrinsic acquired vicarious
- pronto acquired safeai
- hp-inc acquired humane
- rocket-lab acquired motiv-space-systems
- intel acquired movidius
- intel acquired nervana-systems
Common questions
How are California's robotics companies connected?
59 verified connections link California's robotics companies: 50 spinouts and 9 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.