US Bay Area 美国湾区
Silicon Valley humanoid + embodied AI startup hub — Figure, 1X, Physical Intelligence, Skild AI.
The San Francisco Bay Area is the global epicentre of the embodied-AI and humanoid startup wave. Backed by unrivalled venture capital, AI talent and compute (NVIDIA), it is the headquarters of Figure and a dense field of humanoid and robot-learning ventures, alongside established leaders such as Intuitive Surgical and lidar maker Ouster.
The region’s edge is software, AI and capital rather than manufacturing — it tends to set the agenda for what robots should think and do, then partners globally to build the hardware.
Key Players
Notable robotics companies headquartered in this cluster.
GPUs and Jetson/Thor robotics compute platforms powering on-board AI.
Visit website →The da Vinci surgical-robotics pioneer.
Visit website →Digital lidar sensors for robotics, industrial and automotive use.
Visit website →General-purpose humanoid robots for commercial and home work.
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