Hello Robot alternatives

Hello Robot is organised around one deliberate constraint: a mobile manipulator should be light, compact and safe enough to work shoulder-to-shoulder with people. Founded in 2017, the company designs and builds its robots in-house at Martinez, California, keeps a second office in Atlanta, and sells to research customers in the United States, the European Union, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada and Korea; it has also announced US federal research funding, including an NIH National Institute on Aging grant, for elder-care work with its Stretch platform. Hikrobot sits at the industrial extreme of this comparison: the Hangzhou company pairs machine vision with mobile warehouse robots and supports that range with 17 regional branches, more than 30 offices and sales in over 70 countries. iRobot is the household name of the set, a Bedford, Massachusetts company founded in 1990 whose Roomba vacuums and mops are bought by consumers rather than labs, and which has continued operating under new Shenzhen PICEA Robotics ownership since January 2026. Kawasaki Robotics supplies the heavyweight industrial reference point, a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries that built Japan's first commercial industrial robot in 1969 and manufactures mainly at its Akashi Works. Kinova, from Boisbriand, Quebec, is the nearest in spirit: since 2006 it has made lightweight robotic arms for medical, assistive, research and education users. Research teams choosing between Hello Robot and Kinova are really choosing between a mobile base with an arm and a stationary arm; the other three serve factories, warehouses and living rooms instead.

Alternatives to Hello Robot

Hikrobot

Hikrobot is the machine-vision and mobile-robotics company of the Hikvision group, operating from Hangzhou. Its business rests on two pillars presented side by side on its official site: machine vision products that give industrial systems their sensing, and mobile robots that move goods inside factories and warehouses.

iRobot

iRobot is the maker of Roomba, the best-known brand in home robot vacuums, and remains an operating company under new ownership.

Kawasaki Robotics

Kawasaki Robotics is the Robot Business Division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, one of Japan’s longest-established robot makers: the division produced Japan’s first commercial industrial robot in 1969 and has shipped more than 210,000 robots worldwide (company-stated).

Kinova

Kinova is a Canadian robotics company, founded in 2006 in Boisbriand, Quebec, in the Montreal area, that designs and manufactures lightweight robotic arms.

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