Reflex Robotics

Reflex Robotics is a New York City-based mobile manipulation startup founded in 2022 by Ritesh Ragavender (CEO), Seongdo Kim, and Abdo Babuk — a team drawn from MIT, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Oculus, and ASML. The company builds the Reflex robot, a humanoid-class mobile manipulator that swaps bipedal legs for a compact wheeled base in exchange for cost, runtime, and stability advantages, while keeping a dual-arm humanoid upper body and a vertically extending spine that reaches from floor level to high shelves. Reflex publicly debuted its robot in March 2024 and has been pursuing the warehouse and factory automation market with an aggressive cost target — reportedly priced near a small multiple of monthly labor cost — and a teleop-in-the-loop deployment model that lets human operators intervene as needed while the company builds out its autonomy stack from real-world data. The company raised a $7M seed round led by Khosla Ventures with participation from the co-founders of Dropbox and Cruise. Reflex's compact 2'×2' base, zero-degree turning, 25 lb per-arm payload, and 100 lb deadlift capacity are aimed at fitting into existing warehouse footprints alongside tools like RF guns and barcode scanners with minimal infrastructure changes.