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Grip launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Robots for waste manipulation

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
4
Based
Zürich, ZH, Switzerland

Founders

griprobotics.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Grip on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Grip is a robotics company building intelligent robotic systems for waste and recycling. We are starting with organic waste, where removing contaminants from messy, constantly changing streams remains difficult and highly manual. Our technology combines learning-based manipulation and custom hardware to identify and pick objects, learning from real-world operating data, including every successful and failed grasp, to become more reliable and adaptable over time. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Grip Robotics. Robots for waste manipulation." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Jonas Gruetter, Founder/CEO: Former robotics researcher, published at ICRA. Ex-Gravis Robotics, Robotic Systems Lab, and Ursa Mining. Now building robots to solve fundamental societal problems. (source)
  • Stanislaw Piasecki, Founder/CTO: Co-founder at Grip. Previously founding engineer at URSA Mining, building autonomous excavators with custom control circuits, RL simulators, and multi-sensor perception systems. Built autonomous interceptor drones at CDDS, autonomous race cars at AMZ and quadruped robotics at ANYbotics. MS in Computational Science & Engineering from ETH Zürich. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Grip

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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