Founded 2013 · San Francisco, CA

Our Story

Born from the conviction that intelligence should not be confined to biological form — we have spent twelve years building the machines that will redefine the relationship between humans and the world around them.

340+ Robots Deployed
210 Engineers Worldwide
4 Global Offices
47 Patents Granted

Built on a Bold Idea

Nexus Robotics was founded in 2013 by two roboticists who believed that the robotics industry was solving the wrong problems. The world didn't need faster conveyor belts — it needed machines that could think, navigate, and collaborate in the unpredictable messiness of real human life.

Twelve years and three product lines later, our systems operate in hospitals, logistics centers, aerospace facilities, and research institutions across four continents. We employ 210 engineers across four global offices, united by a single obsession: building machines worthy of the world they're sent into.

We don't measure success in units shipped. We measure it in the moments our robots handle what no human should have to — the dangerous, the monotonous, the impossible — and do it flawlessly, every time.

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We don't build robots to replace people. We build them to expand what people can do — to reach into the dangerous, the distant, and the impossible, so that human potential knows no boundary.
— Dr. Elena Reeves, Founder & CEO

Twelve Years of Firsts

2013

Founded in Silicon Valley

Two robotics engineers with a shared obsession: to build machines that don't just work — that think, adapt, and evolve alongside humanity. Incorporated with $2.4M in seed funding.

2015

First Prototype Walks

The NX-1 takes its first unassisted steps across a cluttered lab floor. It falls seventeen times before it doesn't. The moment is captured on a phone camera and shared internally — it becomes the company's north star.

2018

Series B & RA-Pro Launch

With $180M in Series B funding and the commercial launch of the RA-Pro robotic arm, Nexus Robotics transitions from research lab to industrial supplier. First major deployment: Airbus manufacturing facility in Toulouse.

2020

COVID Deployment & AX-Nano

Nexus deploys NX-series robots across 14 hospital networks to assist in high-risk COVID ward operations. The AX-Nano drone platform launches, enabling contactless aerial delivery and facility inspection at scale.

2023

NX-7 and NEXUS CORE v3

The NX-7 launches with the third-generation NEXUS CORE neural processor — achieving 2.4 PFLOPS of onboard inference. Named by MIT Technology Review as one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of the Year.

2025

Global Scale & Beyond

Over 340 robots deployed across four continents. Offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Berlin, and Singapore. 47 granted patents. And a fourth-generation platform in development that will redefine what bipedal machines are capable of.

What We Stand For

Our Principles

01 — Relentlessness

Never Good Enough

Every robot we ship is the result of hundreds of failures that came before it. We treat complacency as an engineering defect and build a culture where the question is always: what would make this better?

02 — Responsibility

Machines With Ethics

Autonomous systems carry enormous responsibility. Every design decision is evaluated not just for performance, but for safety, bias, and real-world impact on the humans who work alongside our machines.

03 — Transparency

Open by Default

We publish our safety data, our test protocols, and our failure rates — because trust in autonomous systems must be earned through evidence, not claimed through marketing. Accountability is not optional.

The People Behind the Machines

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Dr. Elena Reeves

Chief Executive Officer

Former Lead Roboticist at MIT CSAIL. Pioneer of adaptive locomotion systems and the original architect of the NEXUS framework. Co-founder of Nexus Robotics.

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Marcus Chen

Chief Technology Officer

Former Principal Engineer at Boston Dynamics. Holds 23 patents in robotic actuation and control systems. Architect of the NEXUS CORE neural processing platform.

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Dr. Yuki Tanaka

Chief Science Officer

PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Kyoto University. Leads our AI research division with a focus on embodied intelligence and multi-modal sensor fusion at scale.

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James Okafor

VP of Engineering

Former systems lead at SpaceX Falcon program. Oversees hardware development for all three product lines and manages our global engineering operations across four continents.