Industrial Next Alternatives

Humanoid robots

Darwin is building general-purpose humanoid robots for real-world work. Our first robot, Darwin One, will learn from real-world experience and continuously improve as AI moves from the screen into the physical world. First deployments begin in early 2027.

Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories

Flux is building physical AI to automate material movement in warehouses and factories on legacy vehicle fleets. Using Flux's solutions customers can reduce their dependency on human drivers, while also increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. Flux is currently deploying with customers like Walmart, Daimle...

Personal AI Robots

We make personal AI robots - general-purpose physical machines that anyone can teach with code, language and demonstrations. We believe building open platforms like the first PCs this is the only way to bring the robotics future that we all want, where everyone can participate in the robotics revolution.

AI control layer for welding robots

Our mission is to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, to invent and build anything using intelligent robots. Today’s industrial robots are fast but "blind". They struggle with any task that isn't perfectly repetitive. We are building the eyes and brain (a proprietary vision system and AI model) that allo...

AI chips for ultra-fast training and inference

Novel AI hardware built from first principles to let companies train, fine-tune, and deploy frontier models with orders of magnitude better performance than incumbents

Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data.

Bucket Robotics builds deployable computer vision systems for manufacturing — without labeling, long pilots, or fragile rules. We turn CAD and sample data into production-ready vision models that run on existing cameras and edge hardware. No manual labeling. No cold-start problem. Models deploy in minutes and adapt as ...