Collaborative Robotics

Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) is an advanced robotics company developing intelligent collaborative robots designed to work alongside humans in manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics environments. Founded in 2022 by Brad Porter, former Vice President of Robotics at Amazon and CTO of Scale AI, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

The company's flagship product, Proxie, is described as the most intelligent collaborative robot on the market. Unlike traditional industrial robots that operate in isolated cages, Proxie uses vision-language models and generative AI to adapt to real-world environments, enabling safe and effective human-robot collaboration. This approach allows robots to be deployed more quickly and work in dynamic settings without extensive programming.

Collaborative Robotics has raised over $140 million in less than two years, including a $100 million Series B round in April 2024 led by General Catalyst with participation from Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Mayo Clinic, and others. The substantial funding and roster of top-tier investors reflects high confidence in the company's technology and team.

The company differentiates itself through its AI-first approach to robotics, leveraging the latest advances in machine learning and computer vision to create robots that can understand and respond to their environment with unprecedented flexibility.