ROBOTICS

Physical AI, robotic systems, and the companies compressing the gap between prototype and production deployment.

Robotics is entering a new era — one defined less by mechanical engineering and more by the AI models and sensor stacks that allow machines to operate in unstructured environments. This subcategory tracks the companies and technologies compressing the timeline from lab demonstration to production-scale deployment, with a focus on where physical AI is creating real commercial leverage versus where the hype is running ahead of the hardware.