The Irvine-to-Lahore engineering firm built its reputation on the systems nobody brags about - PLM migrations, access workflows and data plumbing. Its next act is a useful test of whether enterprise AI works better when the boring foundations come first.
Cobot (legally Collaborative Robotics) is a Santa Clara-based robotics company founded in 2022 by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter. The company builds practical, non-humanoid collaborative robots - led by its first product, Proxie - that work alongside humans in warehouses, hospitals, and factories. Backed by over $140M from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Khosla, Lux, and Mayo Clinic, Cobot's bet is that the future of work is human-robot teams, not humanoids.