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Allen Institute for AI (MolmoAct)
Allen Institute for AI (MolmoAct)

Nonprofit AI institute that released MolmoAct, an open action-reasoning model for robot manipulation.

Seattle, USA · 2014
Covariant
Covariant

Built the RFM-1 robotics model for warehouse picking. In 2024 Amazon hired its founders and licensed its models.

Emeryville, USA · 2017
Dream Labs
Dream Labs

Builds Dream-1, a robot foundation model trained on human video that turns a camera feed and a text instruction into actions for robots it has not seen, offered through an API.

San Francisco, USA · 2026
Flexion Robotics
Flexion Robotics

Builds a hardware-agnostic autonomy stack and learned control models for humanoid and legged robots.

Zurich, Switzerland · 2024
Generalist AI
Generalist AI

Trains GEN-series embodied foundation models on large-scale real-world robot manipulation data.

San Mateo, USA · 2024
Google DeepMind (Gemini Robotics)
Google DeepMind (Gemini Robotics)

Research lab behind Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, vision-language-action models for robot control.

London, UK · 2010
Mbodi AI
Mbodi AI

Provides tooling to teach robots new tasks through natural-language instructions and learned policies.

New York, USA · 2024
NVIDIA
NVIDIA

Jetson Thor robot compute, Isaac Sim/Lab, GR00T models and Isaac ROS.

Santa Clara, USA · 1993
Perceptron
Perceptron

Isaac 0.5, an open-weight robot model that reads video and outputs actions, and Mk1.5, a perception model for embodied agents sold by API.

2024
Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence

Builds general-purpose robot foundation models (the π family of VLAs) for manipulation across robot embodiments; early versions were released as open weights (openpi).

San Francisco, USA · 2024
RLWRLD
RLWRLD

Develops robot foundation models for dexterous, hand-level manipulation in industrial settings.

Seoul, South Korea · 2024
Skild AI
Skild AI

Develops Skild Brain, a general robot foundation model intended to run across different robot bodies.

Pittsburgh, USA · 2023
Toyota Research Institute
Toyota Research Institute

Toyota-funded lab publishing Large Behavior Models and diffusion-policy research for dexterous manipulation.

Los Altos, USA · 2015
1X Technologies
1X Technologies

NEO home humanoid and world models for robot learning.

Palo Alto, USA · 2014
Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics

Develops the DYNA-1 robot foundation model and runs it on manipulation tasks for commercial customers.

Redwood City, USA · 2024
Figure AI
Figure AI

General-purpose humanoid robots (Figure 03) with the Helix vision-language-action model.

San Jose, USA · 2022
Dexterity
Dexterity

Deploys AI-driven robot systems for truck loading and parcel handling, built on its own manipulation models.

Redwood City, USA · 2017
Field AI
Field AI

Develops field foundation models for robot autonomy and deploys them on robots in industrial and construction sites.

Irvine, USA · 2023
Config
Config

Bimanual robot data operations, the Loop demonstration-to-policy platform, and the CFG-1 manipulation model.

San Jose, USA · 2025
Genesis AI
Genesis AI

Builds robotics foundation models trained with physics simulation, maintains the open-source Genesis physics engine, and makes a sensor glove for capturing human demonstrations.

Palo Alto, USA · 2024
Hugging Face LeRobot
Hugging Face LeRobot

Open-source library of robot policies (including SmolVLA), datasets and tooling for training and sharing robot learning models.

New York, USA · 2024
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