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Robotics Industry & Policy Tracker

LIVE Where U.S. robotics stands — the money, the policy, and the momentum

Source: roboticsleadership
Website: https://pranava0x0.github.io/roboticsleadership/

Background

The question I kept coming back to: where does U.S. robotics actually stand right now — across the startups raising money, the policy taking shape in Washington and the states, and the market signals that hint at who's pulling ahead?

The short version is that the U.S. leads on capital and breakthroughs but trails badly on deployment — China now runs far more industrial robots per worker, and that gap is the whole story. I wanted one place where an investor, a founder, or a congressional staffer could see the funding rounds, the bills, and the state-by-state picture side by side, without having to trust a vibe. So the rule for the whole thing is simple: every number points back to a primary source, or it doesn't go in.

How It Works

It's deliberately low-tech where it can be and strict where it counts. The site is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reading from JSON files — no build step, no backend, no framework — served as static files on GitHub Pages. The data behind it is part scraped, part hand-curated:

What it covers: a directory of ~30 robotics companies with their funding rounds and valuations, a feed of federal bills and state incentive programs, a state-by-state view of policy themes (delivery robots, autonomous vehicles, industry clusters, AI preemption), and cross-cutting deep-dives on where the industry is heading.
How it stays current: small zero-dependency Node scrapers pull news from the Federal Register, IEEE Spectrum, and TechCrunch, and flag new robotics rules as they post. News refreshes roughly daily, policy on Mondays, and company funding ad-hoc as rounds are announced.
Sourcing rules: every numeric claim needs a primary-source link or it's rejected. News is quoted verbatim or written by hand — no LLM paraphrasing — and a human, not a model, assigns each item's impact tier, sentiment, and confidence. Duplicate stories are merged by source URL.
Who it's for: investors sizing the field, founders watching their competitors, and policy folks who need the funding and the legislation in the same glance.

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A Look Inside

Each view shown on mobile and desktop — tap any image to open the live site.

The homepage frames the core gap (mobile) — The homepage frames the core gap — the U.S. leads on capital and breakthroughs but trails on deployment — with tracked funding by year and the latest valuations.

The homepage frames the core gap (desktop) — The homepage frames the core gap — the U.S. leads on capital and breakthroughs but trails on deployment — with tracked funding by year and the latest valuations.

The companies directory: ~30 robotics firms with disclosed funding rounds and valuations (mobile) — The companies directory: ~30 robotics firms with disclosed funding rounds and valuations, each figure linked to a primary source.

The companies directory: ~30 robotics firms with disclosed funding rounds and valuations (desktop) — The companies directory: ~30 robotics firms with disclosed funding rounds and valuations, each figure linked to a primary source.

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