YC Summer 2025 Manufacturing and Robotics Startups

Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch included 7 Manufacturing and Robotics startups. Of these, 7 remain active, 0 have been acquired, and 0 have shut down.

• Nox Metals (22 people) — Supplying America's Industrial Base
• Verne Robotics (6 people) — AI models that teach robots new skills in hours
• Physical Turing (2 people) — Real world evals of humanoids
• Iron Grid (2 people) — Foundational models for risk and quality.
• Flywheel AI (2 people) — Waymo for excavators
• Duranium (10 people) — Reshoring critical metal production
• DeepAware AI (2 people) — Robots, parts & RL environments - delivered in 72 hrs or pickup in SF.