Best Professional Service Robots Companies in London, United Kingdom
The 32 best Professional Service Robots companies in London, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Automata.
Ranked: Best Professional Service Robots companies in London
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automata Developer of modular lab automation platforms for biological research workflows 64Funding top 25%Product top 25%Tech top 27%Moat top 31% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Producttop 25% Techtop 27% Moattop 31% Innovationtop 32% Fin. healthtop 33% Newstop 43% Growthtop 48% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 39% Funding: Raised $107M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 11 yrs (0.7/yr) Product: 7 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series C rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $107M | 9 mo ago | 40 | Mostafa ElSayed Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+33 | — | — |
| 2 | Karakuri Provider of automated robotic food preparation system | $17M | 71 mo ago | 24 | — | — | 7 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 3 | Q-Bot Developer of robots that perform insulation below houses with timber floors 57Moat top 29%Funding top 35%Patents top 35%Innovation top 36% All 11 signals ▾Moattop 29% Fundingtop 35% Patentstop 35% Innovationtop 36% Producttop 36% Techtop 41% Growthtop 42% Fin. healthtop 42% Globalbottom 42% Marketbottom 41% Newsbottom 22% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 117 patents Funding: Raised $14.1M across 10 rounds · 10 rounds over 12 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $14M | 16 mo ago | 55 55 → 31 (-44%) | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | 117 patents Robotic spraying and coating application systems for precision agricultural and industrial surfaces | — |
| 4 | Xihelm Developer of an AI-based automated harvesting robot | $6M | 85 mo ago | 19 | James Kent CEO & Co-Founder | — | 16 patents Agricultural automation and robotic object‑handling systems for farm equipment | — |
| 5 | Shadow Robot Developer of advanced dexterous robotic hands and teleoperation systems | $5M | 76 mo ago | 39 39 → 43 (+10%) | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | 47 patents Advanced magnetic tactile sensors and tendon tension detection for robotic manipulation. | — |
| 6 | PHINXT Provider of web-enabled robotic automation solutions for warehouses 9Funding bottom 47%Growth bottom 42%Global bottom 39%News bottom 18% All 5 signals ▾Fundingbottom 47% Growthbottom 42% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 18% Marketbottom 17% Funding: Raised $3.3M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 9/100 | $3M | 27 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Muddy Machines Developer of AI-powered robotic technology for farmers | $2M | 51 mo ago | 13 | Christopher Chavasse Founder & CTO | WixSentryYouTube+15 | 6 patents Agricultural harvesting machinery, specifically combine harvester technology. | — |
| 8 | KAIKAKU Platform offering robotics, AI, software, and hardware to automate restaurant operations | $2M | 32 mo ago | — | Piers Millar Co-Founder & CRO | Framer SitesVimeoReact+10 | 3 patents Automated food preparation and dispensing systems for vending and kitchen robotics | — |
| 9 | HausBots Provider of a wall climbing and painting robot | $2M | 49 mo ago | 4 | Liam Tootill Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 6 patents Robotic wall-climbing mechanisms for vertical surface inspection and maintenance | — |
| 10 | Moley Robotics Provider of automated cooking robots | $1M | 119 mo ago | 16 16 → 13 (-19%) | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — | — |
| 11 | E-Nano Provider of a robotics-based solution for the sports industry | $141K | 65 mo ago | 7 | Alan Berteloot Co-Founder | — | 10 patents Assembly methods for passive semiconductor devices and sensor module integration | — |
| 12 | Mio Mobile Kiosk Autonomous mobile vending robots for selling CPG products | $120K | 112 mo ago | 16 | Roman Drokov Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Professional Service Robots companies in London
#1
Series C · London, England · founded 2015 · 40 employees$106.5Mraised▾
Developer of modular lab automation platforms for biological research workflows. This system integrates hardware and software to orchestrate laboratory processes, including sample handling and instrument management. The platform utilizes node-based design tools and software development kits to enable workflow configuration and simulation. It supports connectivity with external data systems and analytical models to facilitate automated execution of experimental protocols. The hardware components are configurable to accommodate various instruments and laboratory layouts, allowing for the management of multiple concurrent tasks.
- Jan 2026Series C$45M
- Oct 2023Series B$40M
- Feb 2022Series B$50M
- Mar 2019Series A$7.4M
#2
Series A · London, England · founded 2012 · 55 employees$14.1Mraised▾
Developer of robots that perform insulation below houses with timber floors. The machine can crawl under the house by an air hole and perform scanning to identify the right approach to insulation.
- Jun 2025Series A$480.3K
- Sep 2023Series A$4.3M
- Jun 2022Series A$1.1M
- Jun 2022Conventional Debt$920.6K
#3
Series A · London, England · founded 2022 · 3 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of web-enabled robotic automation solutions for warehouses. It offers various mobile robotic solutions for managing warehouse operations. The robots help in picking, packing, sorting, and material handling processes.
- Aug 2024Series A$2.5M
- Sep 2022Seed$742.7K
#4
Seed · London, England · founded 2023$1.8Mraised▾
Platform offering robotics, AI, software, and hardware to automate restaurant operations. It focuses on creating technology solutions for the hospitality industry. It improves restaurant experiences through integrated systems. It builds tools designed to optimize various aspects of restaurant management.
- Feb 2024Seed$1.8M
#5
Deadpooled · London, England · founded 2018 · 24 employees$17.4Mraised▾
Provider of automated robotic food preparation system. Its products include DK-One and Marley. DK-One is a robotic food preparation system that delivers customized meals matching the customer's dietary requirements.
- Dec 2020Seed$8.4M
- May 2019Seed$9M
- Apr 2018Seed—
#6
Funding Raised · London, England · founded 1987 · 39 employees$4.9Mraised▾
Developer of advanced dexterous robotic hands and teleoperation systems. It provides robotic hand series with 24 movements and 20 degrees of freedom. The company offers teleoperation systems to control dexterous hands remotely, suitable for hazardous, clean, and remote environments. It also provides consultancy services and robots for hire, catering to researchers through collaborative projects and academic partnerships.
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$527.2K
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$450.7K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$274.4K
#7
Deadpooled · London, England · founded 2016 · 19 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-based automated harvesting robot. The company claims its products to be a handwork robots for industrial greenhouse purposes. It also claims that its products are suitable for unpredictable organic environments and also address the problem of labor shortages.
- Oct 2019Seed$2.6M
- May 2018Seed$2.7M
- Dec 2016Seed$1.1M
- Jun 2016Seed$28.4K
#8
Seed · London, England · founded 2020 · 13 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Developer of AI-powered robotic technology for farmers. It develops field robots that help growers manage labor-intensive crops by conducting fieldwork. It's an autonomous robot that comes with custom harvesting tools and uses machine learning to detect monitor and harvest crops. It uses battery-powered field robots.
- Aug 2022Seed$1.8M
- Mar 2022Seed—
- 2021Seed—
- Apr 2021Seed$591.9K
#9
Seed · London, England · founded 2017 · 4 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of a wall climbing and painting robot. It has the capability to climb rough surfaces, and overcome obstacles such as wires and surface bolts for painting, HD visual inspection, and building and infrastructure surveys. It features a suction system and has the capability to carry payloads for sensing, inspecting, grabbing painting, and more.
- Sep 2022Seed$1.7M
- Jul 2020Seed—
#10
Seed · London, England · founded 2014 · 16 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of automated cooking robots. The company offers an automated kitchen unit consisting of cabinets, robotic arms, and hands. It comes with a connected GUI screen with access to a library of recipes and a set of kitchen appliances and equipment that have been optimized for both robot and human use.
- Nov 2016Seed$1.1M
#11
Seed · London, England · founded 2019 · 7 employees$141.4Kraised▾
Provider of a robotics-based solution for the sports industry. The robot uses AI technology and has the capability to automatically roam around golf courses, football pitches, and other pitches to gather data on field health. It also provides an AI-based robot for inter-row weed removal, and a 5G connectivity-based platform for controlling the robots.
- Jun 2021Seed$141.4K
#12
Deadpooled · London, England · founded 2016 · 16 employees$120Kraised▾
Mio Mobile Kiosk offers MIO, an autonomous mobile robot for marketing and product distribution in public spaces. The robot is in the form of a vending machine on wheels that autonomously moves throughout busy spaces to sell CPG products to consumers. It includes a sensor allowing it to stop when people approach it. Customers can select their items on touchscreens and pay in cash or with the card. The company claims that the robot is also capable of communicating with people and cheering them up. It also plans to launch a mobile application that will allow customers to summon the robot to their location. As of May 2018, the company has created two prototypes and have tested them in Vilnius and Tel Aviv.
- Jun 2017Seed$120K
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How research on Robotics in London is moving
A read on the academic research around Robotics in London — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 440 papers.
- Imperial College London163
- University College London125
- King\'s College London77
- Queen Mary University of London39
- Brunel University of London14
- Motion planning1→24
- Reinforcement learning2→18
- Path (computing)1→17
- Tactile sensor1→12
- Trajectory2→12
- Motion planning1→20
- Human–robot interaction1→8
- Key (lock)1→6
- Human–computer interaction4→9
- Robotic surgery1→5
- Robotic surgery3→7
- Cognition1→4
- Perception1→3
- Human–computer interaction2→3
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