Robotics Industry & Policy Tracker

Case study · Policy

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

What: US robotics funding, federal and state policy, and market signals in one view.
Stack: Zero-dependency Node scrapers + hand curation; plain HTML/CSS/JS over JSON.
Status: LIVE
Dates: Published June 2026 · Updated July 2026
Links: Live site · Source code

Background

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 tracker puts funding rounds, federal and state legislation, and the state-by-state policy picture side by side, under one rule: every number points back to a primary source or it doesn't go in. The short version of what it shows 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.

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.

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: ~30 robotics companies with funding rounds and valuations, a feed of federal bills and state incentive programs, and a state-by-state view of policy themes.
How it stays current: zero-dependency Node scrapers pull from the Federal Register, IEEE Spectrum, and TechCrunch — news roughly daily, policy on Mondays, funding as rounds land.
Sourcing rules: every numeric claim needs a primary-source link or it's rejected, and duplicate stories are merged by source URL.
No LLM paraphrasing: news is quoted verbatim or written by hand, and a human — not a model — assigns each item's impact tier, sentiment, and confidence.
Who it's for: investors sizing the field, founders watching competitors, and policy staff who need funding and legislation in the same glance.

[View the Live Tracker] | [View the Code]

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