The California robotics network

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
• 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
• Neros · Soren Monroe-Anderson founded Neros · from neros-technologies
• 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
• 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
• Archer Aviation · Brett Adcock founded Archer Aviation · from figure-ai
• Archer Aviation · Brett Adcock founded Archer Aviation · from hark
• Grid Aero · Arthur Dubois founded Grid Aero · from joby-aviation
• Gritt Robotics · Puneet Puri founded Gritt Robotics · from gritt
• 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
• 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
• Otto · Anthony Levandowski founded Otto · from google
• Otto · Anthony Levandowski founded Otto · from pronto
• 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
• 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
• Pronto · Anthony Levandowski founded Pronto · from otto-uber-self-driving
• Nervana Systems · Arjun Bansal founded Nervana Systems · from intel
• Corvus Robotics · Jackie Wu founded Corvus Robotics · from corvus
• Cyngn · Biao Ma founded Cyngn · from roboforce
• Mind Robotics · RJ Scaringe founded Mind Robotics · from also
• Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket) · Akshay Narisetti founded Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket) · from pocket
• 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
• Pocket · Akshay Narisetti founded Pocket · from open-vision-engineering
• Beam · Scott Hassan founded Beam · from willow-garage
• Corvus · Jackie Wu founded Corvus · from corvus-robotics
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sunday Robotics · Tony Zhao founded Sunday Robotics · from sunday
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Neros Technologies · Olaf Hichwa founded Neros Technologies · from neros
• Gritt · Puneet Puri founded Gritt · from gritt-robotics
• 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
• Auris Health · Fred Moll founded Auris Health · from neptune-medical
• The Bot Company · Kyle Vogt founded The Bot Company · from cruise
• The Bot Company · Paril Jain founded The Bot Company · from the-bot-co
• Embodied Inc · Paolo Pirjanian founded Embodied Inc · from embodied-moxie
• Embodied Inc · Paolo Pirjanian founded Embodied Inc · from evolution-robotics
• The Bot Company · Paril Jain founded The Bot Company · from the-bot-company
• The Bot Company · Luke Holoubek founded The Bot Company · from cruise
• Ike · Alden Woodrow founded Ike · from uber
• Ike · Nancy Sun founded Ike · from google
• Ike · Nancy Sun founded Ike · from apple

Acquisitions

• meta acquired oculus-vr
• nuro acquired ike-robotics
• ouster acquired velodyne-lidar
• google acquired fitbit
• pronto acquired safeai
• uber acquired otto-uber-self-driving
• intrinsic acquired vicarious
• hp-inc acquired humane
• rocket-lab acquired motiv-space-systems
• intel acquired movidius
• intel acquired nervana-systems

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