We build your U.S. pipeline
from first attention to signed pilots
GTM strategy, strategic partnerships and research for robotics and Physical AI companies, built on the Physical AI community we run in San Francisco, our media and KOL reach, and our published research on how robots get to market
From the team behind Embodied Collective · 1,510 Physical AI professionals in San Francisco Read our research · 20 published piecesWe build and run your U.S. sales and marketing pipeline
One funnel, from the first time a buyer hears your name to a signed pilot. Start with a plan, then let us build it and run it with you
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Research and perspectives
Built from public filings and reporting, our own Physical AI database, and interviews with founders, operators and investors. Every piece names its sources and keeps facts apart from our analysis
Reachy Mini sold $1 million in five days by shipping developers a robot with nothing to do
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics priced a desktop robot like a gadget, let the community write its software, and reached about 10,000 units in ten months without a sales team or a chore to sell.
Defense took 42 cents of every dollar in robotics' biggest rounds
Forty verified robotics rounds of $50M or more raised $24.6B between September 2025 and September 2026, eight defense companies took $10.4B of it, and the funded companies are hiring partnership leads ahead of marketers
US buyers wait for a robot that finishes the job, while Beijing places the first orders
American labor costs already justify robots, but buyers hold out for machines that work without a human fallback; in China, cheaper labor weakens the payback case, so state buyers, televised showcases and policy targets create the early demand.
What we are working on now
Engagements underway. Click a card for the gap and our move. Names stay private until each partner says otherwise
Chinese robotics manufacturers, and the teams sourcing hardware
- The gap
- Products ready for the U.S., with no buyers, distributors or local proof yet
- Our move
- Introductions to U.S. buyers and channel partners, and supplier matches for teams that need components
Robotics companies serving restaurants, supermarkets and commercial kitchens
- The gap
- Proven on the line and on the floor, but no U.S. distributors carrying them yet
- Our move
- Mapping the distributors and dealers that already sell into restaurants and grocery, and opening those doors one by one
A top-tier world model company
- The gap
- A frontier model that needs real-world deployments to prove itself
- Our move
- We find the sites and operators to build their flagship case studies, then carry those pilots into real deployment
Robotics companies raising their next round
- The gap
- Generalist investors pass on hardware they cannot underwrite
- Our move
- Introductions to the industry and corporate VCs that invest in robotics, and a seat in the investor conversations at our events
90% of the room works in Physical AI
Our team co-founded Embodied Collective, a San Francisco Physical AI community that meets every two weeks. It is where our research gets tested against operators and buyers, and where most of our introductions start
Embodied Collective figures as published on embodiedcollective.org: reported event participation, not active membership. Registrations are RSVPs, not check-ins. As of Nov 1, 2026
Recent rooms: The Deployment Moat · The Data Layer of Physical AI · Physical AI Deployment in Business
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