Collaborative Robotics

A US company founded by a former Amazon Robotics VP, building the Proxie mobile robot that works alongside people.

Collaborative Robotics (often shortened to Cobot) was founded in 2022, with offices in Seattle and Santa Clara. Its founder and CEO, Brad Porter, studied computer science at MIT, served as vice president of Amazon Robotics where he oversaw the deployment of more than 500,000 robots, and later became CTO of Scale AI. Its flagship product is Proxie, a mobile manipulation robot designed to work safely right next to people, aimed at labor-short settings such as hospitals and logistics, doing repetitive physical work like material transport. Its Series A was funded by Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, and Mayo Clinic, and its Series B, reportedly $100 million in 2024, was led by General Catalyst; it later formed a foundation-model team. Note that the company is a distinct entity from the generic term “cobot” for a collaborative robot.

Also called

Cobot

Related

Collaborative Robot · Mobile Manipulator · Human-Robot Collaboration · Labor Shortage (Aging Workforce) · Scale AI

Sources

Cobot 团队页 (Chinese)
Cobot 官网 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09