I am trying to understand the point of your post or at least in what way it's relevant to measure the success of robotic startups. neither iRobot or Kiva can b

I am trying to understand the point of your post or at least in what way it's relevant to measure the success of robotic startups. neither iRobot or Kiva can be called startups any more. Then there is a company like Universal Robots which seems to be doing fine but hardly a startup anymore as it's went public and was bought. There are plenty of robotics companies which are doing just fine as there are plenty of problems out there needing robotics and there is still some way to go until most organizations have renewed their "machine park" and thus in the market for more optimal solutions. A startup is by definition almost always no profitable as it haven't found product market fit yet. Once it does that it become just another company or get bought by the big guys. If you mean were is the Facebook or Google of robotics then sure but I don't think you can apply digital space thinking to the robotics space. You could say that nVidia is a very successful company because of it's robotics support. But again not sure I know how to interpret your post (not that there is anything wrong with it)