I came to the Silicon Valley area in 2010. Because I knew it was the robotics capital of the world. But it certainly hasn't received as much media attention as other areas of robotics. In California, robotics technology is a small fish in a much larger technology pond, which tends to hide how important California companies are to the robotics revolution.
Pitchbook’s conservative dataset [Vertical: Robotics and Drones] Provides data for 7,166 robotics and drone companies. However, a more customized search can provide you with close to 10,000 robotics companies worldwide. Here are the regions sorted by size:
- North America 2802
- Asia 2337
- Europe 2285
- Middle East 321
- Oceania 155
- South America 111
- Africa 63
- Central America 13
- California = 843 (667) * Number of companies, Number of headquarters
- Texas = 220 (159)
- New York = 193 (121)
- Massachusetts = 191 (135)
- Florida = 136(95)
- Pennsylvania = 113 (89)
- Washington = 85 (61)
- Colorado = 83 (57)
- Virginia = 81 (61)
- Michigan = 70 (56)
- Illinois = 66 (43)
- Ohio = 65 (56)
- Georgia = 64 (46)
- New Jersey = 53 (36)
- Delaware = 49 (18)
- Maryland = 48 (34)
- Arizona = 48 (37)
- Nevada = 42 (29)
- North Carolina = 39 (29)
- Minnesota = 31 (25)
- Utah = 30 (24)
- Indiana = 29 (26)
- Oregon = 29 (20)
- Connecticut = 27 (22)
- DC = 26 (12)
- Alabama = 25 (21)
- Tennessee = 20 (18)
- Iowa = 17 (14)
- New Mexico = 17 (15)
- Missouri = 17 (16)
- Wisconsin = 15 (12)
- North Dakota = 14 (8)
- South Carolina = 13 (11)
- New Hampshire = 13 (12)
- Nebraska = 13 (11)
- Oklahoma = 10 (8)
- Kentucky = 10 (7)
- Kansas = 9 (9)
- Louisiana = 9 (8)
- Rhode Island = 8 (6)
- Idaho = 8 (6)
- main = 5 (5)
- Montana = 5 (4)
- Wyoming = 5 (3)
- Mississippi = 3 (1)
- AR = 3 (2)
- Alaska = 3 (3)
- Hawaii = 2 (1)
- West Virginia = 1 (1)
- South Dakota = 1 (0)
Note – These numbers in parentheses are for the headquarters location, the first number is for all company locations. The final results and rankings are virtually identical.
- China = 1350
- Japan = 283
- India = 261
- Korea = 246
- Israel = 193
- Hong Kong = 72
- Russia = 69
- United Arab Emirates = 50
- Türkiye = 48
- Malaysia = 35
- Taiwan = 21
- Saudi Arabia = 19
- Thailand = 13
- Vietnam = 12
- Indonesia = 10
- Lebanon = 7
- Kazakhstan = 3
- Iran = 3
- Kuwait = 3
- arrogance = 3
- Qatar = 3
- Pakistan = 3
- Philippines = 2
- Bahrain = 2
- Georgia = 2
- Sri Lanka = 2
- Azerbaijan = 1
- Nepal = 1
- Armenia = 1
- Burma/Myanmar = 1
Countries without robotics; Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, East Timor.
- UK = 443
- Germany = 331
- France = 320
- Spain = 159
- Netherlands = 156
- Switzerland = 140
- Italy = 125
- Denmark = 115
- Sweden = 85
- Norway = 80
- Poland = 74
- Belgium = 72
- Russia = 69
- Austria = 51
- Türkiye = 48
- Finland = 45
- Portugal = 36
- Ireland = 28
- Estonia = 24
- Ukraine = 22
- Czech Republic = 19
- Romania = 19
- Hungary = 18
- Lithuania = 18
- Latvia = 15
- Greece = 15
- Bulgaria = 11
- Slovakia = 10
- Croatia = 7
- Slovenia = 6
- Serbia = 6
- Belarus = 4
- Iceland = 3
- Cyprus = 2
- Bosnia & Herzegovina = 1
Countries without robotics; Andorra, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Moldova, Malta, Vatican City.
- Ontario = 144
- British Columbia = 60
- Quebec = 53
- Alberta = 34
- Manitoba = 7
- Saskatchewan = 6
- Newfoundland & Labrador = 2
- Yukon = 1
areas without robotics; Nunavut, Northwest Territories.
Silicon Valley Robotics is an industry association that supports innovation and commercialization of robotics technology.
Silicon Valley Robotics is an industry association that supports innovation and commercialization of robotics technology.