An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
Robotics
Robotics foundation-model lab originally building the Covariant Brain for warehouse manipulation. Amazon licensed its technology and hired the founders in a 2024 reverse-acquihire-style robotics AI deal.
| Name | Covariant |
|---|---|
| Space | Robotics |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Latest valuation | $2.7B |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | Emeryville, CA |
| Founders | Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, Tianhao Zhang |
| Website | https://covariant.ai |
| Careers | https://covariant.ai/careers |
| — | |
| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | ~$625M | reported | — |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-14 | added | Covariant added to tracker Latest valuation: ~$625M. | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Figure AI | $39B | 2022 |
| Skild AI | >$14B | 2023 |
| Physical Intelligence | ~$11B | 2024 |
| Wayve | $8.6B | 2017 |
| Neura Robotics | ~$7B | 2019 |
| Apptronik | $5.3B | 2016 |
| The Bot Company | $4B | 2024 |
| Linkerbot | $3B | 2023 |