MassRobotics Accelerator Cohort Portfolio
Cohort2, 2025
Haystack provides cost-effective & high-accuracy soil measurement solutions for farmers and soil carbon offset markets. Using an innovative combustion process and CO2 sensors, Haystack measures soil carbon while streamlining processing requirements. Their laboratory automation platform reduces gold-standard soil carbon analysis cost by >10x while scaling throughput, unlocking market scalability.
LiftLabs develops ropeless fishing gear that replaces traditional ropes and buoys with an automated robotic release system. Their device sinks with the trap, then lifts it to the surface when activated, reducing whale entanglement risks and allowing fishing in closed areas. Tested across New England, the Southeastern US, Canada, and Australia, LiftLabs’ solution empowers sustainable fishing while meeting growing regulatory and consumer demands for marine conservation.
Life science research is bottlenecked by manual cell culture in the lab, which is time-consuming, inconsistent, and costly. Mito Robotics aims to transform cell culture for academic and industrial settings by combining AI’s computational power with robotics’ precision to create an intelligent robotic scientist. This innovation improves reproducibility and scalability, reducing the cost of cell culture, and increasing the number of experiments possible.
Nexterity is building a hands-free robotic tool to autonomously bolt and unbolt pipeline flanges in the field for industrial manufacturing asset owners. Founded by a mechanical engineer with refinery experience, Nexterity combines perception and computer vision techniques with industrial grade robotics to perform predictable, routine tasks. Their MVP takes hands off of flanges and operates 8x faster than manual bolting practices
p!ng is an ultra-convenient, wicked fast automated drive-thru. Powered by proprietary automation and AI, p!ng delivers a seamless, scanless customer experience – you simply press a one-click order button on the app, drive up, grab your order, and go. p!ng solves the problem of long 15-25 minute waits, 10-20% inaccurate orders and increasing prices paired with tipflation.
Redefine Surgery is building an Artificial Intelligence for Surgery to advance the field and improve patient outcomes. In partnership with the world’s leading surgeons their Vision System captures and transforms surgery into immersive 3D experiences, enabling surgeons to learn from anywhere, collaborate at any time, while creating the foundational dataset for AI-assisted surgery.
ReviMo creates personal robotic assistants to help people with limited mobility take care of themselves independently and reduce the burden on their caregivers. ReviMo is designed for people who cannot get out of bed without assistance.
Revolute Robotics builds robots that operate where no other robots can. Their Hybrid Mobility Robots switch between driving on the ground and flying through the air to enable entirely new applications for inspection and surveillance robots.
Tatum Robotics is developing first-of-its-kind assistive communication systems for the DeafBlind community. Without independent communication tools, the DeafBlind are cut off from the abled world’s resources. The Tatum T1 signs tactile ASL, the primary communication method of people with severe deafblindness. Disrupting the field centered on braille, Tatum’s technology will bring millions of DeafBlind folks independent access to news, education, entertainment, healthcare, and more.
Variable Machines builds a new type of reconfigurable tool that allows for faster, more affordable, and more sustainable composites manufacturing. They combine hybrid additive 3D printing with a novel massively scalable array of closed loop force sensing linear actuators, which allows us to print lightweight mold tools at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional additive machines, while eliminating the need for custom trim and assembly tooling entirely.
Cohort1, 2024
Apparel Robotics Corporation is a Boston-based robotics and advanced manufacturing startup. Founded in 2022 in order to transform apparel manufacturing, allowing anyone to produce clothing locally, more sustainably, and on-demand.
Brd BOT is building a robotic vending machine for fresh fried foods. The machine reduces labor costs from 30% to 3.75% by eliminating all human labor from the ordering and cooking process.
Gopher excels in last-mile delivery for sub-5- pound items, spanning small groceries, takeout, and consumer goods. Gopher’s core technology is an AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) which integrates ODOA/local mapping sensors, GPS, cellular comms.
Hominid X helps people with hand disabilities stay healthy and active by designing grasping products that allow them to independently complete daily care tasks and the hobbies they love. Hominid X has created the first truly practical, functional, and economical assistive tool for hands. It fits on any hand without any customization and provides a secure and automatic hold on almost any object.
Mapless AI is building the first vehicle remote control solution that supports driverless operation on public roads. Their safe tele-driving solutions bring applications like instant car delivery, chauffeur-on-demand, and painless EV charging to partner fleets.
Oligo redefines space and terrestrial industries through modular reconfigurable technology. Founded out of MIT, their universal interface block addresses the need for versatile, reconfigurable systems and serves as the key to truly modular robotics to chart new territories on the Moon and in orbit.
Robotics 88 is building an autonomous drone to empower land managers to conduct larger and faster prescribed burns without compromising safety. Their decision-making drone is able to navigate the cluttered subcanopy environment to provide critical fire behavior prediction data for burn planning and evaluation.
rStream is solving waste collection. rStream is developing end-to-end, robotic solutions for waste collection at high-traffic locations. Their solution captures the material that is lost upstream of processing facilities during collection, streamlines waste processing operations, and aggregates environmental compliance data.
SIMPL Automation, a pioneering warehousing automation startup, tackles the primary industry challenges of space and labor. At the forefront of their offerings is SIMPL Store, an innovative Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS).
Yard Robotics is transforming outdoor labor with their autonomous, electric platform, primarily focused on lawn mowing. Yard Robotics has developed a fleet of robots equipped with custom hardware and software to automate the repetitive tasks associated with outdoor labor.
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