Robocurve
Evals for robots
Founders
- Jay ChooiFounder/CEO
Same space
Competitors
Closest in what they build, same category.
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Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
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Autumn LabsS24Datadog for industrial robotsShared: hardware, roboticsActive
ManifoldS26Drop-in robotic labor that works on Day 1Shared: hardware, roboticsActive
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About Robocurve
Robocurve builds open-source tools and independent benchmarks to measure how well robots can do real-world jobs. Instead of relying on unverified demo videos from frontier labs, we score their models on reproducible benchmarks that anyone can trust. Today there are no well-run, standardized robotics benchmarks. Labs evaluate in-house, and no independent group has stepped in to run continuous benchmarking as a service. The result is that no one actually knows how good anyone else is, or where the real frontier sits. Good benchmarks require operating and maintaining physical hardware and real-world setups. Simulation only goes so far, since models that look strong in sim can show large performance gaps once deployed in the real world. Building real-world benchmarks means coordinating job-domain experts, evals engineering, and hands-on robotics all at once. Frontier labs are targeting general-purpose robotics by 2028, yet the field of robotics evals barely exists. Whoever builds the trusted measure of robot capability becomes the reference everyone relies on. We combine backgrounds in AI evals and robotics to build and grow this field as fast as possible. We already shipped v1 of our open-source framework, Inspect Robots, and ran our first pilot scoring a frontier model on a real robot.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Robocurve: questions
Which YC batch was Robocurve in?
Robocurve was in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch (S26).
Is Robocurve still active?
Y Combinator lists Robocurve as active.
Who founded Robocurve?
Robocurve's founders, as listed on its YC page: Jay Chooi (Founder/CEO).
Where is Robocurve based?
Robocurve lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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