YC Summer 2026 Manufacturing and Robotics Startups

Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch included 25 Manufacturing and Robotics startups. Of these, 25 remain active, 0 have been acquired, and 0 have shut down.

• OS3 (2 people) — Deploying US-Built Robots & Training Video Action Models
• Most Robotic (2 people) — Research lab for physical AI
• 6thSense (4 people) — Nervous System for Physical AI
• Waddle Labs (2 people) — Agents for robotics control.
• Manifold (2 people) — Deployment-ready robotic labor for the supply chain industry
• Agency Tool Company (3 people) — Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
• Nori (5 people) — American Humanoid which costs 3% of the competition
• Orvixo (2 people) — AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.
• Aktoria Robotics (6 people) — Human as API for robots
• Neuron Industries (2 people) — Industrial Controllers built for AI
• ProvenMetal (4 people) — Fast-turn, American made PCBs
• Libra Robotics (2 people) — Robotic crews for large-scale infrastructure construction
• Proprio Robotics (1 people) — Building autonomous data centers
• Enact (2 people) — Real-world RL environments for robotics models
• Hilstart — Autonomous Hardware Testing
• Neuromorphic (3 people) — Building robots to automate wetlabs
• Ultrasonium (5 people) — Manufacturing the metal parts the world runs on faster, cheaper, safer
• Moving Atoms (2 people) — World models that train and test robots in sim, #1 on Physics-IQ
• Shiraz AI (2 people) — Robots that learn on the job
• Grip (4 people) — Robots for waste manipulation
• Hebbian Robotics (2 people) — Open source SDK for building quality control pipelines for Physical AI
• Dawn Industries (2 people) — Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells
• Robocurve (3 people) — Real-world evals for robots
• Salem Robotics Inc (2 people) — Deploying robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.
• Tensr (3 people) — Robotic factories that build robots.