YC Manufacturing and Robotics startups
164 Y Combinator companies in Manufacturing and Robotics, 64 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 8.1%, up from 5.5% in the four batches before. About 49% are AI companies by YC’s tags.
- Signal
- Crowded
- Since 2025
- 98 vs 15 in 2023–24
- Acquired or public
- 13%
- Listed as inactive
- 28%
Share of each batch
Manufacturing and Robotics companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.
Newest entrants
Of 46 Manufacturing and Robotics companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 5 as acquired, 1 as public, 27 as active and 13 as inactive.
- Antropi Robotics F26 · Autonomous CNC factories for faster hardware
- Applied Kinetics F26 · AI-native manufacturing for data center and energy projects
- Asim F26 · Enable robots to operate safely in the real world.
Building in Manufacturing and Robotics?
Open problems and funding on Questd for world of atoms.
- Y Combinator · Requests for Startups
- Andreessen Horowitz · Big Ideas 2026
- Conviction · Plausible AI Schemes
- Bessemer Venture Partners · Roadmap Investment Thesis
Manufacturing and Robotics companies, newest first
164 companies
- Antropi Robotics
Autonomous CNC factories for faster hardware
Fall 2026Manufacturing and RoboticsSan Francisco, CA, USA - Applied KineticsAI
AI-native manufacturing for data center and energy projects
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - AsimAI
Enable robots to operate safely in the real world.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics4San Francisco, CA, USA - Deploy
The generalist robot deployment company.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - Dreamscale LabsAI
Real-time cloud inference for robotics.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics4San Francisco, CA, USA - Hemlock
Force + contact dynamics collected at scale for training physical AI.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics1San Francisco, CA, USA - horizontal.
AI agents that run factory operations end-to-end.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - HundredAI
100% automated inspection for consumer electronics parts
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics3San Francisco, CA, USA - Lux FoodsAI
Crops engineered for premium fruit, grown without sunlight.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics4San Francisco, CA, USA - MantleAI
The pit crew for machines and robots.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - Odin Robotics
Robot arms that do repetitive manual work in existing factories.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2ZH, Switzerland - Open Actuation
Quick-turn, purpose-built motors & actuators for all
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2Los Angeles, CA, USA - PrimordiantAI
Embodied Scientific Intelligence
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics3San Francisco, CA, USA - Rodeo RoboticsAI
Robots for vehicle maintenance.
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - Runtime.siAI
Evaluation Infrastructure for Robotics (YC F26)
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics5San Francisco, CA, USA - Shepherd RoboticsAI
Robots for high skilled labor powering AI infrastructure
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics4San Francisco, CA, USA - Silica
Actuators for Physical AI
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics1San Francisco, CA, USA - Sinter
Accelerated plastics manufacturing
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2El Segundo, CA, USA - Theseus Robotics
Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics7ZH, Switzerland - twentyfour26
On Demand CNC Prototyping
Fall 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - 6thSense
Nervous System for Physical AI
Summer 2026Manufacturing and Robotics4San Francisco, CA, USA - Agency Tool Company
Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
Summer 2026Manufacturing and Robotics3Denver, CO, USA - Aktoria Robotics
Human as API for robots
Summer 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA - Dawn IndustriesAI
Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells
Summer 2026Manufacturing and Robotics2San Francisco, CA, USA
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