Where are US robot depots and headquarters?
Robot operations have a physical geography, and it is not where you might guess. Eleven US operators anchor to a handful of hubs: the Bay Area for engineering, Texas for manufacturing and truck terminals, and a scatter of coastal depots. Two facilities stand out as firsts. Avride runs the only US sidewalk-robot factory, 54,000 square feet in Austin, and Zoox built the only purpose-made robotaxi production plant, 220,000 square feet in Hayward. This is a sourced directory, one headquarters and one key facility per operator, each row carrying the record it was drawn from. It is not a scored ranking: no operator is rated against another here, because the underlying data is addresses and filings, not a measured metric.
A sourced directory, one HQ and one key facility per operator, each row carrying its source. How we verify.
The directory
Each operator's headquarters and one key facility, with the source each fact was drawn from. Sources range from SEC filings and FMCSA carrier registrations to company sites and press. This is a directory of sourced facts, not a scored comparison.
| Operator | Type | Headquarters | Key facility | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serve Robotics | sidewalk | 730 Broadway, Redwood City CA 94063SEC 10-K filing | LA office (90046), SF (94122), Dallas (75204)LinkedIn | Reported |
| Coco Robotics | sidewalk | Los Angeles, CAcocodelivery.com/about | Miami FL, Chicago IL, Jersey City NJ, San Jose CA, Washington DCPR Newswire | Reported |
| Avride | sidewalk+robotaxi | 8300 Mopac Expy, Floor 3, Austin TX 78759avride.ai/about | 8605 Cross Park Drive Austin TX (54K sq ft manufacturing — only US sidewalk robot factory)LinkedIn | Reported |
| Starship Technologies | sidewalk | 535 Mission St, San Francisco CAstarship.xyz/about + LinkedIn | Tallinn Estonia (engineering), London UK, Helsinki FinlandLinkedIn | Reported |
| Waymo | robotaxi | Mountain View CAWaymo blog | Mesa AZ (239K sq ft manufacturing); Austin depot (AVOMO-managed, 36 charging ports)Waymo blog + Road to Autonomy | Reported |
| Zoox | robotaxi | Foster City CAZoox journal | Hayward CA (220K sq ft factory — only purpose-built robotaxi production facility); Miami depotTechCrunch + Zoox journal | Reported |
| Nuro | robotaxi | 1300 Terra Bella Ave, Mountain View CA 94043GlobalData + Salestools | Houston TX (testing since 2019, ~100 vehicles CA+TX)Uber IR + Nuro website | Reported |
| Pony.ai | robotaxi | 47633 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont CA 94539Salestools + LinkedIn | 3501 Gateway Blvd, Fremont CA 94538LinkedIn | Reported |
| May Mobility | shuttle | Ann Arbor MImaymobility.com/locations | Arlington TX (active, 100K+ rides, 5 AVs); Atlanta GA (coming 2026)maymobility.com/locations | Reported |
| Aurora Innovation | truck | Pittsburgh PA (Strip District)Aurora IR + Facebook WPXI | South Dallas terminal; Houston terminal (logistics hub, near FedEx)Aurora IR press release | Reported |
| Gatik | truck | 161 E Evelyn Ave, Mountain View CA 94041FMCSA SAFER (USDOT 3517692) | 2012 Eagle Pkwy, Fort Worth TX 76177 (FMCSA-registered physical address)FMCSA SAFER Web | Reported |
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Why this is a directory, not an index
The underlying data is addresses, filings, and facility descriptions, not a measured metric with a denominator. There is no fair way to score one operator's headquarters against another's, so this page does not try. It lists what each operator has and where, with the source for every fact, and stops there. When a fact here is confirmed on a reviewed registry company record, the operator's own DEPLOY page carries the verified version; this directory carries the sourced one.
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