California is the robotics capital of the world.

China has fewer robotics startups than the USA. The UK has more than Germany, France or Switzerland and other surprising facts about the real robotics revolution.

I came to the Silicon Valley region in 2010 because I knew it was the robotics center of the world, but it certainly doesn’t get anywhere near the media attention that some other robotics regions do. In California, robotics technology is a small fish in a much bigger technology pond, and that tends to conceal how important Californian companies are to the robotics revolution.

This conservative dataset from Pitchbook [Vertical: Robotics and Drones] provides data for 7166 robotics and drones companies, although a more customized search would provide closer to 10,000 robotics companies world wide. Regions ordered by size are:

• North America 2802

• Asia 2337

• Europe 2285

• Middle East 321

• Oceania 155

• South America 111

• Africa 63

• Central America 13

USA robotics companies by state

1. California = 843 (667) * no of companies followed by no of head quarters

2. Texas = 220 (159)

3. New York = 193 (121)