Avidbots USA Corp.

Avidbots Corp., a privately held robotics company founded in 2014, is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The company's U.S. entity, Avidbots USA Corp., maintains its principal place of business in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. As a venture-backed firm, Avidbots has raised over $100 million, with a $70 million Series C funding round announced in 2022. Employee counts vary across public sources, generally ranging from 200 to 300 employees.

Avidbots is an operating company that designs, manufactures, and sells autonomous floor-scrubbing robots for commercial spaces such as airports, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and retail stores. The company's main products are its "Neo" and "Kas" lines of robotic cleaners. These robots operate using advanced AI software called Avidbots Autonomy, which enables them to map facilities, adapt to changing environments, and perform cleaning tasks with minimal human intervention. The company supports its hardware with the "Avidbots Command Center," a cloud-based application for monitoring and managing the robot fleet.

The company’s patent litigation posture is that of an operating company defending its technology. Based on tracked cases, Avidbots USA Corp. has been named as a defendant in one patent infringement suit and has not initiated any patent litigation as a plaintiff. This activity is consistent with a technology manufacturer being challenged by a competitor rather than a patent assertion entity. The single case is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The notable litigation involving the company is a 2024 lawsuit filed by Brain Corporation, another significant player in the autonomous robotics industry. In the suit, Brain Corporation alleges that Avidbots' autonomous cleaning robots infringe on several of its patents related to robot navigation, mapping, and control systems. This case represents a dispute between two competing operating companies in the commercial robotics market.