Residents & Alumni
A place to collaborate. A place to build. A place to have fun.
MassRobotics is home to dozens of individual companies with robotic and supporting technology ranging from agriculture, underwater, drones, medical and consumer, to DoD-centric and first responder projects. Companies in our space are from around the country and around the world, working to advance their technologies.
Resources and benefits we provide to our residents include:
- Use of collaborative robots, telepresence robots, AMRs, robotics arms, conveyor belts and other platforms
- Unlimited use of shared equipment to include 3D printers, oscilloscopes, soldering, mechanical tools and more
- Sample and discounted hardware and components from our partners
- Free software for select partner packages including analysis tools, CAD and cloud
- Marketing promotion as needed through media channels
- Discount and complimentary entrance to robotics events as well as speaker consideration
- Mentor support in engineering, marketing, manufacturing, legal and fundraising
- Introductions to visiting parties including foreign delegations
Resident Startups
4D Space Genius Inc
4D Space Genius Inc is an OEM supplier of autonomous robotics solutions for brick-and-mortar retail environments. We leverage our ground-breaking, patent-pending optical innovation, sensors, and software to autonomously scan retail shelves in motion, creating a 3D model of a store, and helping retailers (and their suppliers) understand what is happening on shelves across the store.
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Activ
Activ is advancing the field of surgical robotics.
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Aerospec Technologies
Aerospec Technologies uses AI and data analytics to improve asset reliability and optimize asset performance for renewable energy clients.
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AirShare
AirShare designs and manufactures systems to detect, track, and mitigate threats from wayward and malicious drones. AirShare’s OVERWATCH® Interceptor-UX is a lightweight, 3d-printed guided missile which disperses a non-lethal cloud of propeller-fouling countermeasures to safely remove threats from small drones in urban areas and conflict zones. AirShare has received over $1M in contracts for its Interceptor-UX missiles from the Canadian Special Forces.
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Alias Robotics
Alias Robotics is focused in robot cybersecurity and committed to delivering security solutions for robots and their components.
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Ascend Robotics
Smart collaborative robots, AI and perception for safe part handling and precision kitting.
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Aura Intelligent Systems
Aura is building an all digital mmWave imaging radar for emerging mobility applications. Aura’s patented software defined radar delivers high-resolution 5D location and imagery for drone detection and tracking, Smart traffic management, and autonomous vehicles.
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Autonodyne
Autonodyne LLC designs and builds systems to enable autonomous flight for both civil and defense applications, specializing in control stations, mission computers, autonomy software and augmented reality for airborne operations.
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Ava Robotics
Leveraging a deep technical heritage from iRobot, Ava Robotics designs and builds autonomous robots that comfortably coexist with humans in workplaces and other large spaces. Ava Robotics is transforming what it means to collaborate by combining autonomous mobility with high definition video conferencing.
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Black-i Robotics
Black-i Robotics specializes in designing, developing and manufacturing unmanned ground vehicles and related robotics arms and attachments. They are diversifying applications of their technology into mobile logistics, tech-construction, precision agriculture, and high-value perimeter security.
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BlueFrog Robotics
BlueFrog Robotics exists to create robots with a brain and a smile that benefit everyone around them. They developed BUDDY, a cool emotionally intelligent robot that serves as the perfect companion at every stage of our customers lives.
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Bobbin Embedded
Building an open source Rust ecosystem to make embedded development safer and more productive.
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BosEagle Surgical
BosEagle Surgical is a surgical robotic device company dedicated to addressing the clinical needs of endoscopic surgery, such as kidney stone removal surgery – Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and bladder stone removal surgery. They also develop the platform for surgeon assistant.
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Cleo
Cleo Robotics is building the world’s first indoor friendly drone for applications such as law enforcement, surveying, security, and warehousing. Current drones are not suitable for indoor operation because they’re large and dangerous. Cleo solved these problems with their proprietary technology that allowed them to create a new type of drone that is much safer, more compact, and more power efficient.
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AirShare
AirShare designs and manufactures systems to detect, track, and mitigate threats from wayward and malicious drones. AirShare’s OVERWATCH® Interceptor-UX is a lightweight, 3d-printed guided missile which disperses a non-lethal cloud of propeller-fouling countermeasures to safely remove threats from small drones in urban areas and conflict zones. AirShare has received over $1M in contracts for its Interceptor-UX missiles from the Canadian Special Forces.
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Collabots
Collabots provides robotics consulting, training and speaking services. The mission of Collabots is to enable the success of social robots through collaboration. Helping schools find cost effective STEAM solutions, providing professional development for deployed products and advocating the awareness of robotics to the general public are just some of the services Collabots offers
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Digital Ready
Digital Ready runs a Digital Design Studio where they use architecture, engineering and design to solve human problems using virtual reality, robotics and digital fabrication. Each student emerges from the 18-week learning experience with a digital portfolio to showcase their developing technical and leadership skills to future employers and colleges.
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Deep AI Technologies
Deep AI Technologies accelerates the training of Deep Neural Networks using FPGA technology, delivering up to 10x cost/power/performance improvement over GPU and AI ASIC solutions.
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Dive Technologies
Dive Technologies has one goal: to produce the most reliable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in the world’s oceans at a disruptive price point. Best in class reliability will enable safe and successful access into the depths of the unknown.
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Evergreens
Evergreens is reshaping the agricultural supply chain by creating automated and scalable vertical farming technology to produce chemical & GMO-free produce all year round.
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Flora.Bot
Flora.Bot is the world’s first robotic floral designer that can make any flower arrangement a human can – better and faster, 24/7. This helps lower production costs for large flower companies by up to 75% with a rapid six to twelve month ROI.
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FringeAI
FringeAI provides AI and IoT powered inspection solutions to factories. They are focused on applications that are difficult for computer vision systems and hire manual visual inspection. They offer configuration and subscription services.
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Hathaway Robotics
We utilize 3D printing technology to build a variety of modular heavy-duty UGVs and AMRs. Our main areas of focus are the manufacturing industry and warehouse automation. Hathaway’s AI division provides software packages to convert existing UGVs to AMRs.
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Human Dynamics
Human Dynamics provides an innovative robot system that enables workers to perform their construction and maintenance activities from a safer location, such as the ground. Their product system (patent pending) consists of three united elements: a drone, a customizable manipulator equipped with tele-existence, and gripper supports to anchor the system to a structure while the task is performed.
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InnovaSea
InnovaSea Systems is dedicated to supporting open-ocean aquaculture businesses by producing innovative, environmentally-focused sustainable technologies and service solutions for the industry.
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Kraken Robotics
Kraken Robotics US Inc is a marine technology company engaged in the design, development and marketing of advanced sensors, software and underwater robotics for unmanned maritime vehicles used in military and commercial applications.
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Maglev Aero
Maglev Aero is quietly building the future of Urban Air Mobility.
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Mente
We deploy sensors within the operating room to create a quantitative picture that describes how a surgery is performed in real time. Data is used to help administrators cut cost, manage their supply chain, reduce surgical-team workload, and increase patient safety.
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MVP Robotics
MVP Robotics is providing Robotics Innovation for Sports and Tactical Training: from the football field to the battlefield, MVP is dedicated to creating robotic solutions that enhance training and performance in a more realistic and safer way.
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Nanomek LLC
Nanomek® LLC develops and manufactures groundbreaking robotic products for science and industry. Our core competencies include advanced metrology automation, high-power electrodynamics, precision optomechatronics, and integrated biotechnology solutions. Our current products accelerate the speed of large-volume electron tomography used in near-atomic-scale 3D Life Sciences imaging.
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Neurala
Neurala is a pioneer in vision AI software. On a mission to make AI more applicable and useful in real-world applications, Neurala helps industrial companies improve their quality inspection process, with technology that dramatically reduces the time, cost and skills required to build production-quality vision AI solutions.
NeXtera
NeXtera Robotics is transforming construction thru robotic automation. NeXtera has developed a prefab mini-factory with prefabrication of wall and floor panels 24/7 with superhuman speed and accuracy and a 3D scan and floor layout robot for construction sites.
Northeastern University
Northeastern University’s Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research (RIVeR) Laboratory works on projects to advance the capabilities of humanoid robots and autonomous systems that impact the future human space exploration mission in partnership with NASA and MassRobotics; and collaborative robots for the future of work in advanced manufacturing in partnership with ARM Institute, MassTech Collaborative, MassRobotics, Ascend Robotics, Harmonic Drive and others.
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Open Source Robotics Foundation
Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) mission is to support the development, distribution and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education and product development
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Ori
Guided by the principal that interior space, particularly in high-density urban innovation centers around the world, has become too expensive to be static and unresponsive, Ori’s breakthrough innovation, technology and design create dynamic environments that act and feel as though they are substantially larger.
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Pison Technology
Pison Technology creates transformational human-computer interaction to expand the horizon of human capabilities – the World’s First Ultra-sensitive and Wearable Biopotential Sensor
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Ras Labs
Ras Labs has developed Synthetic Muscle, which is a class of electroactive polymers that contract and expand like our muscles when controlled by low voltage. These EAP also sense mechanical pressure from a gentle touch to high impact.
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RealBotics
RealBotics is building a telerobotics software platform to connect devices and machines through the Internet for remote control.
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Realtime Robotics
Our processors enable micro-second level real-time robotic motion planning and risk-aware autonomous driving.
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RGS Automation
We design and manufacture advanced grippers, focused on the order picking niche with logistics and distribution centers.
Scalable Robotics
Scalable Robotics provides software on top of COTS hardware to provide a robotic agnostic front end for point and click programming of continuous processes, such as arc welding or painting, for industrial robots.
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Southie Autonomy
Southie Autonomy is enabling a new paradigm in human-robot interaction with it’s ‘no-code’ software interface. Repetitive, yet variable tasks in manufacturing are now cost-effective to automate because any user can set-up and start a new task in minutes using simple gestures; the robot figures out how to execute the task. Southie’s software works with any industrial robot and uses AI and AR to add flexibility to kitting and other material handling tasks.
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Spiral Solutions
Spiral Solutions is a Techstars Air Force Alumni delivering an Augmented Reality (AR) platform for the manufacturing and maintenance in Aerospace and Medical Industries.
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TargetArm
TargetArm produces Tular, a universal drone launch and recovery system from any moving platform, both rotary wing and fixed wing, at up to 65 MPH, for commercial and military applications.
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Tennibot
Tennibot is the World’s first robotic tennis ball collector. Tennibot perfectly integrates computer vision and artificial intelligence to save tennis players, coaches & clubs a lot of wasted time & effort.
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ThayerMahan
ThayerMahan Provides modern tools and expertise for monitoring the physical and environmental security of the world’s oceans. Marine Robotics, Maritime Security, Acoustic Engineering.
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TruPhysics
TruPhysics was founded in Stuttgart, Germany in 2015 with the vision to enable robots to understand our world and to support mankind in their daily operations both in private as well as business environments. TruPhysics develops and provides an AI full-stack platform for smart general purpose robotic solutions to solve tasks by handling known and unknown objects in an uncertain environment with intelligent algorithms.
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Thinking Robots
We provide custom software solutions for robotic tasks on any robotic platform with standardized interfaces to sensors and actuators. Others make robots, we make robots smart.
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Ubiros
Ubiros Inc makes robotic soft grippers for primarily food/beverage organizations. Their gripper Gentle is the first fully electrically actuated gripper in the market and receiving a lot of attention from users and integrators alike.
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URBX
URBX is a third-party logistics company that specializes in highly flexible order fulfillment and last mile delivery for e-commerce business.
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Watertower Robotics
Watertower Robotics manufactures soft robots that inspect city water pipes. Their mission is to bring their robot to the world to reduce the 20% of water currently lost through deteriorating infrastructure.
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The Ventilator Project
In an effort to help the world breath in this time of crisis, this non-profit was formed to rapidly create and manufacture a low-cost FDA approved ventilator for Covid-19 patients worldwide.
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XYZ Robotics
XYZ Robotics’s goal is to transform supply chain automation with robotic solutions. We’re developing a sorting robot to automate the process between batch picking and final packaging. Our robot sorts unorganized, random warehouse goods into groups of customer orders.
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Yrobot
Yrobot is a wearable robotics company founded in 2019 with the primary mission of building more effective, affordable and light-weight assistive walking devices to improve the mobility of elders and stroke survivors.
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Xnergy
Xnergy builds universal wireless chargers and provides charging related services to robot users.
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Our Alumni
American Robotics
American Robotics is a drone developer specializing in agricultural automation. Our mission is to expand the possibilities of precision agriculture and deliver value to farmers through innovations robotics and IoT.
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Autonodyne
Autonodyne LLC designs and builds systems to enable autonomous flight for both civil and defense applications, specializing in control stations, mission computers, autonomy software and augmented reality for airborne operations.
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Realtime Robotics
Our processors enable micro-second level real-time robotic motion planning and risk-aware autonomous driving.
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Square Robot
Square Robot builds systems for submerged oil and gas inspections. Traditional inspections can be greatly improved by modern robotics. Autonomous systems allow for accuracy and repeatability. Square Robot designs with safety from the ground up. We build rugged machines capable of operating in the harshest of environments. Uptime is vital – which is why the systems are built from stable, proven modules which have been honed over years of experience. Square Robot is a Boston based company founded by 3 robotics industry veterans with decades of experience in developing autonomous solutions and products.
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