GrayMatter opens 100,000 sq ft California robotics centre with 25 active cells

GrayMatter Robotics opened its 100,000-square-foot headquarters and innovation centre in Carson, California on 23 October 2025. The facility contains more than 25 active robotic cells working on current and prospective customer and partner parts. The company reported more than 100 skilled jobs associated with the expansion.

The cells perform sanding, grinding, polishing, buffing, spraying, blasting and inspection across different materials and geometries. GrayMatter says visitors can see a robot scan an unfamiliar part and generate a programme in less than a minute. The centre combines application engineering, customer trials and manufacturing work; its cell count is separate from paid deployments at customer factories.

GrayMatter’s systems combine perception and physics-informed process planning to adapt robot motion and tooling to changing workpieces. Its Scan&Blast offering lets operators mark treatment and exclusion areas on a part before robotic blasting. Existing systems combine FANUC robot platforms with process materials including 3M abrasives.

In its June 2024 Series B announcement, the company reported production-line productivity improvements of two to four times, consumable-waste reductions of at least 30% and system availability above 95%. These were company-reported results across its applications, rather than measurements of the newly opened centre.

The $45 million Series B, led by Wellington Management, brought disclosed funding to $70.4 million in June 2024. The October 2025 opening release cited $85 million in venture funding. Carson was selected for proximity to aerospace and marine manufacturing, port infrastructure and skilled workers, with plans for further hiring.