Top 9 Space Robotics startups

Updated: May 21, 2026
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These startups are developing space robotics for satellite servicing, asteroid mining, orbital debris removal, space station maintenance, planetary exploration, etc.
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Astrobotic
Country: USA | Funding: $249.6M
Astrobotic is building robotics technologies for lunar mission - from surface and subsurface robotics platforms, to precision landing and hazard detection systems. Its main products inlude lunar landers that can carry around 625 kg of payload to the lunar surface, moon rovers designed to provide affordable mobility for scientific instruments and other payloads to operate on the surface of the Moon, small cube-rovers, designed to accommodate diverse lunar payloads with distinct mission profiles, like lunar regolith digging or water ice harvesting. The company also plans commercial power service for the lunar surface. It will enable space agencies, companies, and nonprofit systems to survive the lunar night and operate indefinitely on the Moon.
2
MDA
Country: Canada | Funding: $183M
MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics, satellite systems, and geointelligence pioneer. MDA is developing the Canadarm3, an iconic, next-generation AI-enabled robotic system. Also MDA supports humanity’s long-term return to the lunar surface,
3
GITAI
Country: Japan | Funding: $129.1M
GITAI is a robotics startup that develops remote controlled robots to replace astronaut's operations in commercial space stations.
4
NewSpace Research and Technologies
Country: India | Funding: $73.3M
NewSpace is an aerospace startup that claims to be building next-generation aerospace technology, including unmanned air systems, collective robotics, GPS-denied operations, augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
5
Icarus Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $6.1M
Icarus Robotics, the business, is developing a robotic labour force for space utilising embodied artificial intelligence (AI).
6
Rogue Space Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
Rogue Space Systems expertise in designing satellite vehicles, robots and subsystems to satellite operators, manufactures and insurers.
7
Aadyah Aerospace
Country: India | Funding: ₹65M
AADYAH Aerospace is specialising in self-designing satellites, launch vehicle subsystems, space electronics and robotic motion control systems. It aims to revolutionise computer vision, communication, and motion control through the integration of AI.
8
Astrolab
Country: USA
Venturi Astrolab manufactures and designs rovers that will transform the way we live and work in space.
9
WeSpace Technologies
Country: UK
WeSpace Technologies develops autonomously flying robotics systems for a variety of lunar surface exploration missions.
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Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com