Startup Of The Week

Startup Of The Week: RoboForce

RoboForce is developing AI-powered advanced robot labor solutions for demanding environments such as solar panel installations, mining, manufacturing, and space.

“We are enabling advanced robots to do the dirty, dull, and dangerous labor that humans should not have to do,” says founder and CEO Leo Ma.

The two-year-old company is one of 100 named as World Economic Forum 2025 Technology Pioneers in June. It was the only U.S. AI robotics company among this year’s cohort.

In May RoboForce introduced its first AI robot built for real-world industrial deployment in demanding outdoor environments. Powered by domain intelligence, AI-hardware co-optimization, and highly modular hardware, the company says its Titan robot has the strength, precision, efficiency, and ability to continuously learn and operate across industrial sectors.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.