Top 9 Space Robotics startups

Updated: April 15, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov

Space robotics startups are developing advanced robotic technologies, including robotic arms, rovers, and autonomous spacecraft, equipped with artificial intelligence and computer vision capabilities.
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Country: USA | Funding: $249.6M
Astrobotic Technology is a space robotics and lunar lander company making space and moon accessible to the world.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $113.6M
GITAI is a robotics startup that develops remote controlled robots to replace astronaut's operations in commercial space stations.
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Country: India | Funding: $21M
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.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $3.9M
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,
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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.
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Country: India
Omnipresent Robot Technologies is a robotics, industrial UAV/drone, and video analytics solutions provider. The startup uses computer vision, machine learning and virtual reality to create 3D images from data collected by the moon rover’s cameras and help in navigation.
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Country: USA
Honeybee Robotics creates the world’s most advanced robotic systems for the worlds’ toughest environments.
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Country: USA
Venturi Astrolab manufactures and designs rovers that will transform the way we live and work in space.
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Country: UK
WeSpace Technologies develops autonomously flying robotics systems for a variety of lunar surface exploration missions.
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
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