Robotics is one of the faster-growing parts of New York’s startup scene. Below are 15 robotics companies in New York City and just outside it, with what each builds, how it was funded, and where to find it. The companies below are in the five boroughs or just outside them, and one of them, Standard Bots, raised $200 million in 2026. They sit alongside the city’s larger startup and fintech crowds. For every NYC round this year, see NYC startups that raised money in 2026.
Where New York’s robotics companies are
Location of the 15 companies on this list, by the address each publishes. Brooklyn’s Navy Yard and Manhattan lead.
15 robotics companies in and around New York City
Every company below builds robots or the software that runs them and was still operating as of October 2026. All are based in the five boroughs unless the entry says otherwise, and the exceptions are labeled: a factory on Long Island, a startup Amazon bought this year, and two companies that keep their engineers in Israel. It is a narrower cut than the site’s main list of New York City startups. For the companies that install and program industrial robots, or write the software that runs factory lines, see the separate list of automation companies in New York.
Robot hardware
The largest round on this list since 2021 went to Standard Bots, which is on Long Island: it designs and assembles its robot arms in Glen Cove, Nassau County. The arms run from the Spark, with a 7 kg payload at $29,500, up to the 30 kg Thor at $49,500 (list prices as of October 2026), and you program them by demonstration instead of code. On June 9, 2026 the company raised a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by RoboStrategy, and said it would expand the Glen Cove plant to 70,000 square feet.
Reflex Robotics, founded in 2022, builds a wheeled humanoid at 141 Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn: two arms on a torso that slides up and down a rolling base, rated for a 50 lb payload. The Robot Report’s 2025 RBR50 profile described it as teleoperated by people, with $7 million raised in a round led by Khosla Ventures and early warehouse trials with GXO Logistics.
Fauna Robotics launched in February 2024 and started shipping Sprout, a humanoid for developers and research labs, in January 2026. Two months later Amazon bought the company for an undisclosed price. Fauna’s site still says “Designed in New York City,” and its careers link now goes to Amazon’s job board.
The most recent funding news on the list belongs to Tangent Robotics, spun out of Columbia Engineering’s Robotic Manipulation and Mobility Lab by Pedro Piacenza with professors Matei Ciocarlie and Ioannis Kymissis. It makes robot hands with light-based touch sensors in the fingers, aimed at fiddly factory work such as mating connectors. Its $4.5 million pre-seed round, led by Fly Ventures and Toyota Ventures, was announced on September 30, 2026.
Software for other people’s robots
Viam was started in 2020 by Eliot Horowitz, the MongoDB co-founder, and in 2021 leased a 54,000-square-foot floor at 1900 Broadway in Lincoln Square for its headquarters. Its platform lets hardware and software engineers build and manage the code on a whole fleet of machines; named customers include Viking Yachts and Sbarro. The $30 million Series C of March 3, 2025 was led by Union Square Ventures and brought total funding to $117 million.
Antioch sells simulation: robot and drone makers calibrate their hardware into its cloud simulator and run thousands of test scenarios in parallel before anything touches a physical machine. The company started in May 2025 and raised a $32 million Series A led by Greylock on September 8, 2026, for $44.75 million in total. Amazon’s Ring is a customer.
Mbodi AI is much earlier: a six-person company founded in 2024 that went through Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch. Its software lets a factory team teach an industrial robot a new task by describing it in plain language or showing it a demonstration.
Lab benches and massage tables
Opentrons, founded in 2014 and based in Long Island City, Queens, makes pipetting robots for biology labs: the OT-2 and the newer Flex. Its last disclosed round was a $200 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in September 2021.
Aescape builds a massage robot. You lie on a table that maps your body while heated robotic attachments do the work, and you can adjust or pause the session from an app. Eric Litman founded the company in 2017. An $83 million round in March 2025, led by Valor Equity Partners, took total funding to $128 million and came with a plan to put tables in 60 Equinox clubs.
Warehouses and recycling lines
Fabric makes automated fulfillment systems for grocers and retailers, from micro-fulfillment sites to centralized fulfillment centers. Treat the New York label with care. The company, founded in 2015 as CommonSense Robotics, issues its press releases from New York, but The Robot Report placed its R&D in Israel in July 2022, when Fabric cut about 40 percent of its staff and stopped running fulfillment as a service. Its last disclosed round was a $200 million Series C in October 2021, led by Temasek, for $336 million in total.
Revise Robotics, founded in 2024, is three people from Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch building a robotic cell for e-waste recyclers. It takes in a used laptop, then tests it, wipes it, photographs it and lists it for resale with no person in the loop.
Outside the factory
Skyline Robotics makes Ozmo, a robot arm that rides a skyscraper’s existing window-washing rig and cleans the glass while operators supervise from above. Its first New York deployment, announced in August 2024, was the Durst Organization’s 45-story tower at 1133 Avenue of the Americas. Founded in 2017, Skyline keeps an office at 120 Broadway in the Financial District and its R&D in Yakum, Israel. A $9.8 million round in February 2024, with Durst Ventures among the investors, brought the total raised to $19.4 million.
Toggle started in New York in 2016 automating rebar assembly with industrial robots and had raised $15 million by February 2023, including an $8 million Series A led by Tribeca Venture Partners. The current product, Toggle QC, is a scanning and computer vision system that checks fabricated parts on the line and maps the junctions in a rebar cage so a welding or tying robot can find them. Toggle’s site now lists Zurich ahead of New York City.
Somatic leases a robot that cleans commercial restrooms, toilets included, and it publishes its prices. As of October 2026 that is $1,500 a month for eight hours a day on weekdays, which Somatic works out to $8.63 an hour. CB Insights lists the company at an Upper West Side address, founded in 2018, with $21.2 million raised.
Pliant Energy Systems in Brooklyn builds swimming robots with no propellers. Founder Benjamin Pietro Filardo’s Velox moves by rippling flexible fins the way a cuttlefish does, and it can crawl out of the water on them. In August 2021 the company announced a $4.4 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop an untethered successor called C-Ray.
Robotics companies in NYC: addresses, phones and LinkedIn
Where each company is and how to reach it, checked October 2026. Addresses link to Google Maps. Several early-stage teams publish no street address or phone, and the table says so rather than guess.
| Company | Address | Phone | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Bots | 35 Garvies Point Road, Glen Cove, NY 11542 | 1-888-976-2687 | |
| Reflex Robotics | 141 Flushing Avenue, Building 77, Suite 801, Brooklyn, NY 11205 | Not published | |
| Tangent Robotics | Not published (Columbia spinout) | Not published | |
| Viam | 1900 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10023 | Not published | |
| Antioch | Not published | Not published | X (Twitter) |
| Mbodi AI | Not published | Not published | |
| Opentrons | 45-18 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY 11101 | (908) 869-8907 (sales) | |
| Aescape | 245 W 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 | Not published | |
| Fabric | New York (no street address published) | Not published | |
| Revise Robotics | Dumbo, Brooklyn (no street address published) | Not published | |
| Skyline Robotics | 120 Broadway, 36th Floor, New York, NY 10271 | Not published | |
| Toggle | New York City (no street address published) | Not published | |
| Somatic | Upper West Side (no street address published) | (516) 581-8093 | |
| Pliant Energy Systems | 63 Flushing Ave, Building 280, Brooklyn, NY 11205 | Not published | |
| Fauna Robotics | Now part of Amazon | Not published |
Is New York City a Robotics Hub?
By the numbers it is a small one. New York Robotics, a nonprofit formed in January 2024 that held its public launch in January 2026, counts about 100 robotics startups in the city and more than 160 across the tri-state area. The Pittsburgh Robotics Network counts more than 120 robotics companies, with $9.8 billion invested in them, in a metro area a fraction of New York’s size. Boston and Silicon Valley are the established hubs New York is trying to catch.
What the city does have is research labs that produce founders. Tangent came out of Columbia’s manipulation lab. At NYU, Lerrel Pinto runs the General Robotics and AI Lab and, by his own account, co-founded two companies that were acquired in 2026: Fauna, bought by Amazon in March, and Assured Robot Intelligence, bought by Meta in May. I read that as good news for the founders and a warning about how long a promising New York robotics team stays independent.
Money and space are thinner. Alley Robotics Ventures launched in October 2022 with $30 million for early-stage robotics; Kevin Ryan of AlleyCorp and Eliot Horowitz of Viam were its two anchor investors, and former AlleyCorp partner Abe Murray ran it. Aescape was one of its first five investments. Standard Bots’ 2026 round alone was more than six times that fund. If you’re raising, the generalist New York venture capital firms are a separate list. Workspace means Newlab, which opened in 2016 in an 84,000-square-foot building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Fortune reported in February 2025 that nearly 500 startups, in robotics and every other kind of hardware, had passed through and raised more than $4 billion between them. Factory floor is harder to find. Standard Bots’ CEO has credited Long Island with the industrial infrastructure a robot maker needs to scale, and his plant is in Glen Cove.
Raising money in New York
- NYC startups that raised money in 2026: every 2026 round we could verify, with investors and SEC filings
- How to finance an AI startup in NYC: grants, state matching money, tax credits and investors
- NYC venture capital firms
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- NYC fintech companies
- Small business loans in NYC: for companies that will not raise venture money
