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Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York (with team members in Paris and Montreal), Norbert Health was started by Alexandre Winter, a computer-vision PhD who previously co-founded Placemeter (acquired by Netgear/Arlo in 2016). It builds a physical AI control system that gives partner robotic hardware clinical capabilities — contactless vital-sign sensing, clinical protocol execution, patient assessments and automated EHR documentation — live in skilled nursing facilities since August 2025.

Queue has built what it claims is the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, with smart kiosks that automatically dispense and distribute approximately 280 common medications, reducing prescription fulfillment costs by up to 96%.

Acumino, founded in 2021, develops AcuBrain, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform that teaches robots dexterous bimanual manipulation and transfers skills across robot platforms. It has run deployment trials with a major German automaker and a large Japanese marine-engine maker, and in 2026 joined Google DeepMind's first European robotics accelerator.

CarbonSix, founded in 2024 in San Francisco, was built by the founding team behind SuaLab, a Korean industrial AI vision company acquired by Cognex for approximately $200 million in 2019. The company takes a deployment-first approach, delivering plug-and-play automation tools to factories including dexterous robotic hands, robotic arms, and an imitation learning toolkit that generates high-quality task data from customer use to feed back into model training. The company has active commercial contracts and scaled revenue, and in September 2025 released the industry's first standardized imitation learning toolkit for manufacturing.

Rushen Robotics, founded in 2022 in Shanghai, China, is a developer of rehabilitation robots.

Zhongke Xinsong Co., Ltd. was established in 2014 as part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xinsong lineage (SIASUN Robot, stock code 300024, serving as its Shanghai international headquarters), completing an independent spin-off in 2023. The company has full-stack self-developed capabilities covering core components, control systems, intelligent perception, and industrial scenario expert systems. Its DUCO collaborative robots support payloads from 0.5 to 20 kg.