Bayflex Solutions is a Silicon Valley company focused on flexible electronics testing, with interchangeable mechatronics and hostile environment integration.  Their goal is to help provide data analytics used in R&D, manufacturing and field operations.  

Contactile is a Sydney, Australia-based startup company founded in 2019.  Their goal is to develop tactile sensors for robotic hands that enable dexterous robotic grasping.

Liquid Wire specializes in stretchable electronics, stretchable interconnects, strain sensors, and durable, conformable materials and electronics. Their proprietary liquid-metal material technology allows for robust connectivity and longevity.  

Haption is a French company involved in developing hardware and software based on force feedback in the industrial, medical, and research spaces.  Their force feedback devices are primarily used in haptics applications, including virtual reality.

MaxInsights, a start up in the AI space, provides experimental robot data collection as a service for companies building foundation models. They also perform evaluation as a service, putting mobile and stationary robots in different real-world “scenes” and collecting data to test machine learning policies, per the customer’s needs.

Dexmate develops personal, general purpose mobile robots for a variety of tasks.  Its primary offering is the Vega robot, a humanoid-type robot built on an omnidirectional wheeled platform. The goal of this design is to maximize flexibility, reliability, and efficiency for a variety of applications.

Based in Chicago, IL, Fluid Reality develops compact, high resolution haptic hardware for VR and robotic hand teleoperation.  Their fingerpad arrays create detailed displays that help the user with object manipulation in virtual environments.  They can also be used to provide sensation in a glove the operator wears, allowing real time ‘feel’ of what a robot hand is grasping. 

Chang Robotics provides engineering services around the design of custom robotics systems especially focused on providing workforce solutions.  Their goal is to address labor shortages, enhance efficiencies, and create safer workspaces by designing and deploying autonomous robotics. 

Labyrinth AI creates, designs and executes effective machine learning solutions to solve clients’ problems, particularly in eCommerce and manufacturing. 

BrightChamps is a STEM curriculum development company with an interest in robotics as educational tools for K-12 and beyond. They believe that not only is robotics education important in developing a future workforce, but that robotics can also be a tool to teach general STEM concepts to all.

Artimus Robotics develops actuators for robotics applications, and they are especially focused on soft, electrical and bio-inspired actuators designed for bio-inspired robotics, wearables, fluid control and electrostatic technologies.  They use thin plastic films and electrostatic liquids to achieve high mechanical compliance. 

The Robotics and AI Institute is directed by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert. The goal of the RAI Institute is to develop robots that are smarter, more agile, more dexterous, and easier to use than robots today.  Such robots will increase productivity, reduce worker risk, and care for the disabled and elderly. 

ProWorkforce Performance is a risk assessment firm providing customized strategies for work place settings.  Their goal is to reduce workplace injuries by mitigating those risks, restoring function after injury, and building physical resiliency.

Proception AI is a startup company based in Palo Alto, CA, which specializes in developing dexterous robotic hands for humanoid robotics companies.  They are especially focused on creating precise, adaptive movements for a wide variety of applications for humanoids, with the goal of achieving human-like, precision handling of delicate objects and performance of fine motor tasks. 

Spindle is a technology company developing software to enable laundry providers efficient operation and automation solutions.  This includes infrastructure for commercial and on-premise laundries to measure and improve business performance.  As they build their automation portfolio, they see dexterity as a critical link in the performance optimization chain.

TouchTronix Robotics is a startup out of the University at Buffalo. Their primary focus is sensors for dexterous robotics, and they have developed a new sensing mechanism based on their dynamic DC generator technology for slip mitigation on shear direction. Their goal is to produce next-generation tactile sensors that deliver real-time feedback powered by AI.

TunaBotics is a startup out of Syracuse.  Their focus is on tunable adhesion technology and compliant manipulation, especially the development of soft robotic manipulators that can help accelerate automation.