Collaborative Robotics
Founded 2022 by Brad Porter (ex-Amazon Robotics VP + Scale AI CTO). Stealthier than the humanoid pack; raised $100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst). Targets warehouse + healthcare collaborative robots.
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At a glance
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2022 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- $140M total — including $100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: Cobot-style human-collaborative robots vs humanoid
Anti-fit: Stealth-mode; product details non-public; pilot-only
Pros & cons
Pros
Strong founder (ex-Amazon Robotics VP); General Catalyst lead; non-humanoid differentiation.
Cons
Stealth-mode; minimal public product info; no public customer story.
Claims & capabilities
$100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst); ex-Amazon Robotics leadership team
Technical surface
- API surface
- No public API
- Backend storage
- Internal cloud
- Deployment
- Direct customer pilot
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Per-customer pilot
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
Similar systems
Other robotics foundation models & agent stacks in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics T1
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics + Gemini Robotics-ER (Embodied Reasoning) released Mar-2025. VLA models built on Gemini 2.0 backbone. Reference platform: Apptronik Apollo. The DeepMind line of robotics-FM, descendant of earlier RT-1 / RT-2 / RT-X work.
- Physical Intelligence (π) T1
Founded 2024 by Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) and Karol Hausman + others (ex-Google Brain Robotics). Building general-purpose robot foundation models (π0 released Oct-2024; π0.5 in 2025) trained on cross-embodiment robot trajectories. Raised $400M Series A (Nov-2024; Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive, Lux) at $2.4B val. Released π0.7 (2026-04-16) and opened its models through the Pi API beta (2026-10-13).
- 1X Technologies T2
Norway / US humanoid robot company — Eve (wheeled bimanual) + Neo (legged humanoid, consumer-targeted, late 2025 / 2026 launch). Raised $100M Series B (Jan-2024, EQT + OpenAI Startup Fund); $40M Series A (Mar-2023, OpenAI lead). Distinguishing feature: consumer-home positioning rather than industrial.
- Agility Robotics T2
Oregon-based humanoid maker; Digit is in production at GXO Logistics warehouses since Sep-2024 — claimed first humanoid in commercial service in the US. Spinout of Oregon State University. $400M+ raised (Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund participant).
- Apptronik T2
Apollo humanoid maker, spun out of University of Texas Human Centered Robotics Lab. Raised $350M Series A (Feb-2025; B Capital + Capital Factory); Mercedes-Benz manufacturing partner (Mar 2024). Partnered with Google DeepMind on Gemini Robotics (Mar 2025) — Apollo is the headline reference platform for Gemini Robotics.
- Covariant T2
Pieter Abbeel / Peter Chen-founded robotics FM company — built RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model, Mar 2024) for warehouse pick-and-place. In Aug 2024 Amazon took a non-exclusive license to its robotic foundation models and hired founders Abbeel, Chen and Rocky Duan plus research staff; Covariant was not acquired and continued serving customers. As of 2026-10-29 covariant.ai is a placeholder page (logo, video and a 2026 copyright line only; no product or contact pages).
Sources (28 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is Collaborative robot maker (Brad Porter / ex-Amazon Robotics) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2022 by Brad Porter (ex-Amazon Robotics VP + Scale AI CTO). Stealthier than the … vendor
- Claims / benefits $100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst); ex-Amazon Robotics leadership team vendor
- Modalities vision + language + manipulation action vendor
- Created 2022 (founded) vendor
- Mindshare Stealth-mode; mindshare grew with $100M round announcement vendor
- Funding $140M total — including $100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst) third-party
- Data handling Internal trajectory data; closed weights vendor
- Deployment Direct customer pilot vendor
- HQ US (Bellevue, WA) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Brad Porter (CEO; ex-Amazon Robotics VP, ex-Scale AI CTO) vendor
- API surface No public API vendor
- Backend storage Internal cloud vendor
- Multi-tenancy Per-customer pilot vendor
- Encryption Enterprise-grade vendor
- Versioning Internal model versioning vendor
- Namespace primitives per-customer vendor
- Validated verticals warehousing, healthcare (per public messaging) vendor
- Time to running Pilot-only — months to deploy vendor
- Anti-fit Stealth-mode; product details non-public; pilot-only vendor
- Optimised for Cobot-style human-collaborative robots vs humanoid vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Amazon Robotics alumni; General Catalyst portfolio vendor
- Pros Strong founder (ex-Amazon Robotics VP); General Catalyst lead; non-humanoid differentiat… vendor
- Cons Stealth-mode; minimal public product info; no public customer story. vendor
- Project & sources co.bot vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo