| The University of Texas at Austin | United States | Human Centered Robotics Lab | humanoid robotics, controls, human-centered robotics | Not disclosed | Apptronik | Apptronik originated from the lab | 2026-08-13 | Apptronik official company history |
| Carnegie Mellon University | United States | Robotics Institute | robotics, planning, control, robot learning | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Agility CTO Pras Velagapudi earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. at CMU and later served as adjunct faculty/project scientist | 2026-08-13 | Agility Robotics leadership profile |
| Stanford University | United States | Multiple robotics and AI labs | robot learning, VLA, manipulation, embodied AI | OpenVLA collaborations | Not disclosed | Research ecosystem represented in open VLA and Physical AI work | 2026-08-13 | OpenVLA official project |
| University of California, Berkeley | United States | BAIR and robotics groups | robot learning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, cross-embodiment | OpenVLA, Octo | Not disclosed | Research lineage represented in OpenVLA and Octo collaborations | 2026-08-13 | OpenVLA official project |