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"Robotics" Startups in San Francisco

Every active San Francisco startup we index that carries the "Robotics" tag.

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Last updated

2026-09-02

Hiring right now 1% 1 of 76

Open roles 11

City San Francisco

Our index currently lists 76 tech startups in San Francisco tagged "Robotics" — a city×tag slice of the live directory, not every "Robotics" company nationwide and not every San Francisco startup regardless of tag. 1% of this slice is hiring right now (1 of 76). Apply links on each profile go to the company's own site; we don't act as a middleman. "Robotics" startups in San Francisco include 6thSense, AICE, AICE Power, Aktoria Robotics, and Almond. Categories represented here: Hardware, AI / ML, and Industrials. YC batches in this slice: S26, Sp26, S24, and S25, among others. Widen the view anytime: all San Francisco startups at /startups/location/san-francisco, or every "Robotics" company nationwide at /startups/tag/robotics.

Nervous System for Physical AI

Submarine drones for defense

HardwareSwarm AIRobotics

Submarine drones for defense

HardwareSwarm AIRobotics

Aktoria Robotics

Human as API for robots

RoboticsEnterprise Software

A dual-arm robot built for physical AI.

HardwareRoboticsManufacturing

Replacing orthodontic braces with our clear aligner and software

RoboticsHealth TechMedical Devices

Robotic pitstops for self-driving cars

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareMachine Learning

Autonomous shuttles for campus-like environments.

Datadog for industrial robots

HardwareRobotic Process AutomationSaaS

The human-in-the-loop system for robots

Hard TechRoboticsInfrastructure

Service company that designs, sources, and quality-tests custom PCBs

HardwareRoboticsManufacturing

Making hard molecules for Pharma and Biotech

AI-powered Drug DiscoveryRobotics

Bucket Robotics

Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data.

Robotic Process AutomationRoboticsComputer Vision

Charge Robotics

Robots that build solar farms

RoboticsSolar PowerConstruction

Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI

Artificial IntelligenceReinforcement LearningRobotics

Corvus Robotics

Autonomous drones to help warehouses scan inventory.

Warehouse Management TechRoboticsDrones

Cosmic Robotics

Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

Hard TechRoboticsConstruction

AWS for precision manufacturing

Commercial Space LaunchRobotics

AI-native remote operations center for hardware fleets

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareRobotics

Robots, parts & RL environments - delivered in 72 hrs or pickup in SF.

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRobotics

DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)

Robots, parts & RL envs & evals - delivered in 48 hrs / pickup in SF.

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRobotics

Real-world data network for robots & world models

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareMachine Learning

Double Robotics

Telepresence robots

HardwareRobotics

Autonomous services for humanity.

Robotic Process AutomationRoboticsAutomation

Military exoskeletons

RoboticsDefense

Efference — Industrials

RoboticsComputer Vision

Datadog for robots

Developer ToolsRoboticsB2B

Real-world RL environments for robotics models

Reinforcement LearningRoboticsAI

A robotics intelligence system for metal fabrication

Robotic Process AutomationRoboticsIndustrial

Vanta for hardware

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareRobotics

General Instinct

Inference Infrastructure for Physical AI

Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsDrones

General Trajectory

AI for the physical world

Greypoint Industries

Building drone swarms that hunt drone operators

HardwareRoboticsDrones

Hebbian Robotics

Open source SDK for building quality control pipelines for Physical AI

Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsData Science

Building robotic mushroom farms

RoboticsClimateFood Tech

Hermes Robotics

Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles

Autonomous TruckingHard TechRobotics

Real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.

RoboticsCrowdsourcingBig Data

Industrial Next

Tesla autonomous manufacturing for everyone

Hard TechRoboticsManufacturing

InLoop Robotics

Robotic arms that pick and pack your orders.

Hard TechRoboticsLogistics

Personal AI Robots

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsHard Tech

Automated evals for robot policies

Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsData Labeling

Intelligence Factory

Human Intelligence for Robots

Artificial IntelligenceRobotics

Lambda Robotics

Robotics for AI Infrastructure

RoboticsInfrastructureAI

Robotic crews for large-scale infrastructure construction

Hard TechRoboticsConstruction

Robots with soul

Hard TechHardwareRobotics

Config Management for Robotics

Developer ToolsRoboticsDevOps

Research lab for physical AI

World models that train and test robots in sim, #1 on Physics-IQ

Hard TechRoboticsVirtual Reality

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Maquoketa Research

The intelligence layer for drones

Hard TechHardwareDrones

Earendil Robotics

Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level

DronesSwarm RoboticsAR

The Robot Learning Company

Tools for the next era of physical automation.

Machine LearningRobotics

Tenet Industries

Low-cost, mass-producible defense systems

HardwareManufacturingDefense

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Frequently asked questions

How many "Robotics" startups are in San Francisco?

Our index currently tracks 76 active tech startups in San Francisco tagged "Robotics". Counts move as scrapers discover new companies and flag shutdowns inactive.

Which "Robotics" startups are based in San Francisco?

Companies on this page include 6thSense, AICE, and AICE Power, plus 73 more below. Each profile links to the company's site and any open roles we scrape.

How is this different from the San Francisco startups page or the "Robotics" tag page?

/startups/location/san-francisco lists every indexed startup in San Francisco across tags. /startups/tag/robotics lists every "Robotics" startup nationwide. This page is the intersection — only companies that resolve to both San Francisco and "Robotics".

Are these San Francisco "Robotics" startups hiring?

1 of the 76 companies on this page currently have open roles in our jobs index.

How often is this list updated?

Automated scrapers refresh on the same daily cadence as the rest of the directory. The last index update was 2026-09-02.