What Collaborative Robotics does
Collaborative Robotics — branded Cobot — builds general-purpose mobile manipulator robots designed to work safely alongside humans in real environments rather than caged off behind safety fencing. The flagship robot, Proxie, was unveiled in November 2024 and combines a wheeled mobile base with a lightweight arm and gripper, plus an AI stack tuned for navigation, perception, and reactive task planning. Where most warehouse robots execute scripted routes, Proxie is engineered to react to people, props, and changes in its environment in real time, which is the bar Cobot's team believes is required for collaborative deployment.
Cobot is targeting a wide industrial surface area — warehouse fulfillment, healthcare logistics (Mayo Clinic is a customer and investor), shipping (Maersk), defense logistics (US Department of Defense), and manufacturing — with the same robot platform under different software policies.
Who it's for
Cobot sells to warehouse and logistics operators, healthcare systems, and defense and manufacturing customers that need autonomous mobile manipulation in shared human environments without retrofitting their facilities.
Pricing
Cobot does not publish pricing. Deployments are typically multi-year robotics-as-a-service contracts priced per robot per month, including hardware, software updates, and remote operations support.
Team & funding
Collaborative Robotics was founded in 2022 by Brad Porter (founder and CEO, former VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Robotics, where he led a 10,000-person robotics organization). The team draws from Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, NASA, and Waymo. Cobot has raised over $140M total: a $10M seed in 2022, a $30M Series A in July 2023 led by Sequoia Capital with Khosla Ventures and Mayo Clinic, and a $100M Series B in April 2024 led by General Catalyst with Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, and Lux Capital. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California with a Seattle office.
Position vs competitors
Cobot competes with Boston Dynamics' Stretch, Locus Robotics, Symbotic, Agility Robotics, Figure, and 1X — but its core thesis is that the most useful robot in 2025-26 is not a fully humanoid system, it's a reactive mobile manipulator pragmatic enough to deploy at scale today.