Facts

• Segment: Actuation
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2014
• Website: https://www.hebirobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

HEBI Robotics builds modular robotic components, actuators, kits and custom robot platforms. Its ethernet-enabled modules let developers assemble robot arms, mobile bases and custom machines, while the company also provides engineering support for industrial, research and automation projects.

Market context

HEBI matters as a modular actuation and control supplier for teams building custom robotic platforms without developing the full actuator and motion stack from scratch. Owns a modular robotics hardware and software platform centered on smart actuators, accessories, and control tools.

• Capability: Smart networked actuators Motion control hardware and software Modular building blocks for robot arms, mobile robots, and legged systems APIs and development tools for robot control and integration
• Strategic position: Upstream supplier in the robotics value chain Supports faster robot prototyping and subsystem development Sits closer to actuation and control infrastructure than to finished robot OEM production

Products

• HEBI H-Series Actuators
• HEBI Mobile IO
• HEBI R-Series Actuators
• HEBI T-Series Actuators
• HEBI Track Actuator

Facts

• Website: https://www.hebirobotics.com/
• HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Founded: 2014
• Segment: Actuation

Modular actuators and robot building blocks for development and deployment

HEBI Robotics develops modular robotic building blocks for researchers, developers and end users. Its platform centres on modular actuators, software and configurable systems that make it easier to build custom robots, mobile manipulators and application-specific machines.

• Target environment: Research labs, engineering teams, field robotics projects, space robotics development, education settings and custom robot-building environments.
• Deployment model: Component and platform model built around modular actuators, robot kits, software, custom systems, engineering support and end-user solutions.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, developers, universities, industrial R&D teams, government programs and customers building specialized robots.
• Workflow context: Modular actuation, custom robot assembly, mobile manipulation, snake robots, robot prototyping, control software and reconfigurable robotic systems.
• Commercial maturity: HEBI has moved from research-focused building blocks toward end-user solutions while retaining strong developer-platform relevance. Its maturity is component and platform-level rather than mass robo…
• Market position: Modular robotics supplier positioned in the actuation and development-platform layer.
• Adoption constraints: Developer adoption, support burden, system robustness, cost, integration quality, application-specific engineering load and competition from broader actuator suppliers.
• Adjacent context: Actuation, modular robotics, development platforms, robot building blocks, mobile manipulation and robotics research.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-01-09 - Award - HEBI Robotics awarded $850K NASA SBIR Phase II contract for modular space actuators - HEBI Robotics received an $850,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from NASA to develop mod…
• 2025-06-02 - Award - HEBI Robotics receives U.S. Army Phase I SBIR award for hazardous-environment robotics hardware - HEBI Robotics announced a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award.
• 2025-04-28 - Award - HEBI Robotics wins RBR50 award for Inchworm family of robots - HEBI Robotics announced it was named an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award winner.
• 2025-04-17 - Partnership - HEBI Robotics partners with NASA Ames Research Center on robotic infrastructure assembly work - HEBI Robotics announced a collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center under a Non-Reimbursable…
• 2024-09-18 - Award - HEBI Robotics receives NASA SBIR Phase I grant - NASA awarded HEBI Robotics a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant.
• 2024-08-29 - Product Launch - HEBI Robotics launches T25 actuator - HEBI Robotics launched the T25 actuator as part of its T-Series actuator lineup.
• 2024-05-07 - Product Launch - HEBI Robotics launches H-Series actuators - HEBI Robotics launched the H-Series platform of smart robotic actuators.
• 2014-01-01 - Company Formation - HEBI Robotics is founded as a Carnegie Mellon spinout - HEBI Robotics says it was founded in 2014.

Team

• Howie Choset - Founder and Chairman
• Bob Raida - Chief Executive Officer - Current operating leader for HEBI's modular actuator, robot building-block and customer-solution business.

Relationships

• NASA Ames Research Center - research_contract - Collaboration under a Non-Reimbursable Space Act Agreement supporting robotic infrastructure assembly concepts

Context tags

• Modular actuator component supplier - Stack Layer
• Compliant robot joint control - Capability
• Modular series-elastic actuator supplier - Peer Group
• Series-elastic robot actuation - Workflow
• Motion component supplier - Peer Group
• Force-controlled manipulation - Capability
• Robot joint actuator supplier - Peer Group
• Actuator component supplier - Stack Layer
• Robotics hardware supply chain - Customer Environment
• Robot joint supply chain - Customer Environment