Y Combinator Manufacturing and Robotics Startups

143 Y Combinator-backed Manufacturing and Robotics companies across 30 batches — with batch, status, and location for every startup.

Total
143
Active
122
Acquired
5
Public
1
Shut down
15

Y Combinator has backed 143 Manufacturing and Robotics companies across 30 batches. Of these, 122 are still active, 5 have been acquired, 1 have gone public, and 15 have shut down. Below is every YC-backed Manufacturing and Robotics startup grouped by batch, with links to each company profile.

YC Spring 2026 — 13 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Winter 2026 — 6 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • One Robot — World models for robot evals and training.
  • Asimov — Real-world human movement data for humanoid robots
  • Remy AI — Automating dexterous tasks in warehouses with AI-powered robots
  • Kyten Technologies — Custom Aerospace-Grade Battery Packs
  • Human Archive — Physical AI data lab
  • Servo7 — Container unloading robots for warehouses

YC Summer 2026 — 25 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • OS3 — Deploying US-Built Robots & Training Video Action Models
  • Most Robotic — Research lab for physical AI
  • 6thSense — Nervous System for Physical AI
  • Waddle Labs — Agents for robotics control.
  • Manifold — Deployment-ready robotic labor for the supply chain industry
  • Agency Tool Company — Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
  • Nori — American Humanoid which costs 3% of the competition
  • Orvixo — AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.
  • Aktoria Robotics — Human as API for robots
  • Neuron Industries — Industrial Controllers built for AI
  • ProvenMetal — Fast-turn, American made PCBs
  • Libra Robotics — Robotic crews for large-scale infrastructure construction
  • Proprio Robotics — Building autonomous data centers
  • Enact — Real-world RL environments for robotics models
  • Hilstart — Autonomous Hardware Testing
  • Neuromorphic — Building robots to automate wetlabs
  • Ultrasonium — Manufacturing the metal parts the world runs on faster, cheaper, safer
  • Moving Atoms — World models that train and test robots in sim, #1 on Physics-IQ
  • Shiraz AI — Robots that learn on the job
  • Grip — Robots for waste manipulation
  • Hebbian Robotics — Open source SDK for building quality control pipelines for Physical AI
  • Dawn Industries — Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells
  • Robocurve — Real-world evals for robots
  • Salem Robotics Inc — Deploying robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.
  • Tensr — Robotic factories that build robots.

YC Fall 2026 — 3 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Summer 2025 — 7 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Fall 2025 — 8 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Efference
  • Piggy Robotics — Humanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone!
  • Parametric — Physical businesses that run themselves
  • Allus AI — Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model
  • Cortex AI — Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI
  • Forge Robotics — A robotics intelligence system for metal fabrication
  • Axial — Accelerated Physics Kernels for Computational Engineering
  • Lightberry — Robots with soul

YC Spring 2025 — 9 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Atum Works — Gigascale Nanomanufacturing
  • The Robot Learning Company — Tools for the next era of physical automation.
  • Zeon Systems — AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation.
  • MorphoAI — Software tool for designing robots and machines
  • Boost Robotics — Robots for the inspection and maintenance of data centers
  • Almond — A dual-arm robot built for physical AI.
  • Mbodi AI — Industrial Robots that Learn and Operate Like Humans
  • Bramante — Life sciences reagents and software
  • Vision Lab — Industrial data layer for robotics training

YC Winter 2025 — 7 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Summer 2024 — 9 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Winter 2024 — 4 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Relari — Building dexterous robots that learn from human biomechanics
  • Pivot Robotics — AI for Robot Arms in Factories
  • Tekton Dynamics — AI control layer for welding robots
  • Yondu — Robots to Automate Fulfillment

YC Fall 2024 — 1 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Loombotic — Wire Harnesses in as little as 7 days

YC Summer 2022 — 2 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Winter 2022 — 3 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Winter 2021 — 5 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Roin Technologies — Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction.
  • Atomic Industries — Software orchestrated mass production of plastics
  • Flux Auto — Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories
  • GreaseBoss — GreaseBoss verifes industrial machinery is greased correctly
  • BotBuilt — We use robots to build houses.

YC Summer 2021 — 2 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Charge Robotics — Robots that build solar farms
  • RMFG — Advanced Contract MFG for fast moving hardware companies

YC Winter 2020 — 5 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Daedalus — AWS for precision manufacturing
  • Teleo — Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment
  • Pashi — Pashi builds software to operate and optimize production lines.
  • SOMATIC — Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings.
  • Genecis Bio — Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste

YC Summer 2020 — 2 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Winter 2019 — 5 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Overview — Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software
  • Intelline — Intelline makes the world's most efficient fuel agnostic engines for…
  • Atomic Alchemy — We produce cancer-curing materials used in nuclear medicine.
  • AuroraQ — Building the first practical, integrated quantum computer.
  • Taobotics — Autonomous robots for retails.

YC Summer 2019 — 5 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Vorticity — The Fastest Scientific Computing Platform on the Planet
  • Lucid Bots — We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs.
  • Yummy Future — We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry.
  • Tensil — We turn machine learning models into custom hardware.
  • Blockstamp — Blockstamp is an asset management software for industrial equipment

YC Winter 2018 — 4 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • SRTX — Powering a better future for textiles.
  • Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms
  • Vathys — Accelerating machine learning through software
  • Shone — Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit.

YC Summer 2018 — 2 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • JITX — Automatic circuit board design.
  • Rain Neuromorphics — We build artificial intelligence processors inspired by the brain.

YC Winter 2017 — 4 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Summer 2017 — 1 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Skyscrape — Skyscrape makes temperature-responsive insulation

YC Summer 2016 — 2 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Multiply Labs — Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry
  • Robby Technologies — We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on…

YC Winter 2016 — 1 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Summer 2015 — 1 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

YC Summer 2014 — 3 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • Beep — Cellular networks for IoT.
  • Alchemy — Nanotechnology-enabled coatings for automotive and defence sectors
  • Rigetti Computing — Quantum coherent supercomputing.

YC Winter 2014 — 1 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • MadeSolid — Functional 3D printing materials.

YC Winter 2012 — 1 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • CircuitHub — On-Demand Electronics Manufacturing

YC Winter 2007 — 2 Manufacturing and Robotics startups

  • View3
  • Octopart — Octopart is a search engine for electronic components

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