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Most Robotic launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Research lab for physical AI

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

mostrobotic.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

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What they shipped

  • Its own site describes it as: "A robotics research lab pushing what" (source)

Who is behind it

  • Claire Mao, Founder/CEO: MIT Math + CS. Prev SWE @ NASA JPL, aerospace research @ MIT Media Lab (source)
  • Lucy Cai, Founder/CTO: MIT CS + AI. Robotics research @ MIT LIS Lab; prev @ SpaceX, Amazon (AWS) (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-07-13: Launch YC post "Instance: Automated evaluation for robot policies, starting with the success detector", tagline "Today, evaluating a robot policy means humans have to watch the robot roll out, mark success, and reset the scene – we're automating that.", 36 upvotes when read. (source)

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