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Upverter is social making. The best way to collaborate with others. Discover, share and work on hardware. Unlike existing design tools, which are isolated and single user, Upverter is highly integrated, inherently collaborative and accessible anywhere in the world. With Upverter design teams, contract designers and grassroots innovators are leveraging existing design content and focus on building next generation hardware instead of wasting time duplicating work, sourcing parts or dealing with manufacturers.

Ember builds hardware and system observability tools for robots and IoT devices. Founded by former Tesla Autopilot engineers, we help hardware teams catch failures early, reduce downtime, and iterate with confidence from prototype to scale.

Zetta is building the next NVIDIA, energy-efficient chips ("XPUs") for AI training and inference, offering superior speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs and TPUs. Our XPUs are reconfigurable, capable of optimizing the dataflow of each model, making them faster and more energy-efficient than the current SOTA chips on the market. This saves data centers *billions* in cooling and energy costs.

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Cerulion

Robotics and Hardware

Cerulion is an open source operating system for robots built by 2 MIT robotics PhDs. Companies like Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute are using us to develop faster and ship more reliable robots than with ROS. With up to 1000x improvements in communications performance over state of the art, Cerulion is enabling the next generation of embodied AI.

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Sensei

Robotics and Hardware

Sensei helps robotics companies scale and outsource their training data collection. Our hardware platform enables the collection of human-demonstration data at a tenth of the cost and twice the speed of current teleop approaches. Our software platform acts like Scale AI for robotics data: a large network of paid human operators use our low-cost collection platform to fulfill data-generation requests.

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Diode Computers, Inc.

Robotics and Hardware

Diode automates circuit board design. We work with hardware companies to get them the PCBs they need, fast.

We are building state-of-the-art SLAM, perception, and spatial understanding models that leverage vision alone to map, interpret, and interact with the world.

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Innate

Robotics and Hardware

We make personal AI robots - general-purpose physical machines that anyone can program 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.

Per Vices builds the highest performing Software Defined Radios for mission critical applications for industries that can't live without them. Our products are modular, easy to use, provide the best possible performance, and replace a number complex sub-systems and components. Customers developing wireless applications use our products because they dramatically lower integration and development complexity, total cost of ownership, and time to market. Our proprietary, industry leading, technology provides the best performance and maintains an efficient abstraction layer that allows customers to easily incorporate our product into their application.

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Piggy Robotics

Robotics and Hardware

We build humanoid home robots powered by artificial muscles. Compared to motor-driven robots, ours are lighter, softer, safer, and stronger for their weight. Richard dropped out of medicine at Oxford and Chenny left her Oxford PhD in computer science to build the full stack, from custom actuators to embodied AI. We went from zero hardware experience to a full humanoid prototype in just 2 months.

Apigy is the developer of Lockitron, a device which can lock and unlock deadbolt locks via remote control or a mobile device.

Engineering tools should be as streamlined and smart as everything else in your life: as your phone, as your email, as all the apps that help you manage your day-to-day. Your work should be as efficient as possible so you can generate innovative ideas, design elegant technology, and manufacture at scale, all because you can focus on the right things. There should not be any distractions caused by poorly designed websites, unreliable data, or unwieldy spreadsheets of haphazard electronic component information. You should be able to compare components, find important technical information, and easily grasp the spectrum of parts that will be a match for your design. This is what Octopart strives for. Finding electronic component information should not be holding engineers back from bringing ideas to life quickly and efficiently. We believe that pricing, availability, technical specifications, and reference designs should be transparent, fast to find, and easy to understand. That’s why we create powerful, intelligent tools that streamline the engineering workflow and enable fast decision making. Octopart provides accurate and complete data for millions of electronic components in a way that makes it easy to find and compare parts. Focus on the important stuff: building the technology of the future.

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Double Robotics

Robotics and Hardware

Double Robotics is the creator of Double, the world’s leading telepresence robot. We help telecommuters feel more connected to their colleagues by giving them a physical presence wherever they need to be. Having your own Double in the office means you can be free to roam around anywhere without scheduling a call or meeting. Double takes everything you love about video calls on an iPad and places that on a mobile base that puts the remote worker in control. By combining cutting edge technology with an intuitive, elegant design, Double is the ultimate tool for telecommuters. Our mission is to connect the world through remote experiences. http://www.doublerobotics.com [email protected]

CircuitLab makes it easier for electrical engineers, students, and electronics hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share electronic circuits.

Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engineering program (Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey, Aaron Grant), Thalmic Labs has grown to a world-leading team of engineers, researchers, and creators committed to building the future of wearable technology. Thalmic Labs has raised over $140M USD to date from investors including Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and others.

Meet the Replenish Blender, the first self-cleaning appliance that instantly and harmoniously prepares healthy smoothies and snacks. The Replenish Blender mixes health, wellness, and simplicity in under a minute.

Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing and important problems. These systems will perform computations that today’s fastest supercomputers are incapable of, unlocking entirely new classes of problems and offering a direct path to solutions. We are scientists, engineers, builders, and visionaries. We believe quantum computing is going to significantly affect health care, how we treat disease, how we generate energy, and how we feed humanity. Rigetti is the only company deploying full-stack solutions for hybrid classical/quantum computing. Our 19-qubit quantum computer is available online through our Forest platform, and the first commercially useful applications are already under exploration. We were founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti, and are located Berkeley and Fremont, California.

Miru makes it easy for robotics teams to manage, version, and deploy robot configurations. Developers use our well-documented APIs and UI components to automate configuration updates for both engineers and operators. In the long term, we're building software infrastructure to accelerate the automation of the physical world.

Tuesday makes delightful robots that tidy your home for you

Pivot Robotics makes AI software for robotic arms that helps manufacturers automate their most labor intensive tasks. We are starting out with the dangerous task of metal grinding and are currently deploying our software on 10+ robots in a cast-iron foundry.

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Basalt

Robotics and Hardware

Basalt Tech is a spacecraft OS company based in San Francisco. We're building Dispatch: An OS which allows different types of satellites to work together, and produces optimized instructions for fleets of spacecraft. The company is founded by Max Bhatti and Alex Choi, lead engineers at the MIT CubeSat program. Previously, the duo worked as systems engineers at SpaceX, and the UK Ministry of Defense. Basalt Tech recently received its seed investment as part of the Y Combinator W24 batch, and is currently in technical development.

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atopile

Robotics and Hardware

atopile is a new language to design electronic circuit boards with code. We replace point and click graphical interfaces with code to bring software level automation and reuse to the field of hardware design. Our project is open source on GitHub! https://github.com/atopile/atopile

phospho provides sdks, tutorials and hardware kits for real-world robotics in Python. The goal is to lower the barrier for entry to robotics so that everyone can start building intelligent robots.

Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. We're deploying humanoid robots in the first flexible, drop-in picking automation solution designed for 3PLs.