An online survey of robotic start-ups companies finds that Pennsylvania has one of the largest such clusters in the world, right up there with Silicon Valley, Boston, Tokyo and Stockholm. In fact, PA ranks second, with 11 robotics startups, behind California (17)
Writing on the Robot Report, a blog that covers “everything robotic,” editor/publisher Frank Tobe reports that most of the concentration is around Pittsburgh which, like the other clusters “correspond with the locations of notable government or university sponsored robotics research facilities. Each of those areas have ongoing entrepreneurial assistance programs for technology projects and provide nurturing and social get-togethers with prospective investors and fellow inventors and roboticists.”
The Robot Report identified 130 start-up companies, defined as a company “established to develop a concept or product or robotic-related services for sale but doesn't yet have it all together. They have established a business and are in motion towards their goals but haven’t made any sales or aren't fully funded or haven't finished developing the product.”
Among the companies on the Robot Report list are: Astrobiotic Technology, Bird Brain Technologies, Blue Belt Technologies, Bossa Nova Concepts, Butterfly Haptics, Carnegie Robotics, Interbots, Origami Robotics, all in Pittsburgh; Neya Systems in Wexford, Humanistic Robots in Bristol and KMel Robotics in Philadelphia.
Source: The Robot Report
Writer: Elise Vider
