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Meka Robotics is a robotics company founded 2006, based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Mobile Manipulator category.
Meka Robotics built human-safe, human-scale robots and the M1 mobile manipulation platform, a wheeled robot with dexterous arms designed for research and human-robot collaboration. The company was founded in 2006 in the US as a spin-off from MIT CSAIL and was later acquired by Google X in 2013.
Active products
1
Robo Score
55
BBB
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Price range
$320K
1 of 1 priced
Top-rated product
A
Robo Index
Meka M1
Company facts
- HQ
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2006 · 20 yrs
Robo Score
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Milestones
Google X acquired Meka Robotics.
Meka Robotics was founded as an MIT CSAIL spin-off.
Press coverage
- Rise of the compliant machines
MIT News · Feb 2014
- The Meka Robotics' M1: A customizable human-like bot at ...
Phys.org · Feb 2011
- Meka Robot Works Well With Others-and Is Coming to Steal Your Job
Fast Company
Active products by Meka Robotics
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ![]() | Meka M1 | Mobile Manipulator | Payload 1.5 kg·Runtime 1 hr | $320.0K | 2011 | A |
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