Piggy Robotics YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Piggy Robotics went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Fall 2025
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Richard GongCo-founder
Chenny (Qianyi) DengCo-founder

What Piggy Robotics does

We build humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices. Just like the millions of cars generating data for self-driving, we need millions of humanoids generating real-world data for general-purpose robotics. Humanoid companies today can only manufacture hundreds a year because motors are expensive and slow to assemble. We use artificial muscles. Each muscle is just a tube wrapped in braided fibre, and the whole robot is powered by a single pump - which means we can mass-produce humanoids by the millions. Our design is built for that scale from day one and is cheap enough to enter billions of homes.

Piggy Robotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Piggy Robotics, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Piggy Robotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Humanoid robots that do your chores.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build humanoid robots that perform household chores at the cost of an iPhone. Unlike current humanoid robotics companies that only make hundreds a year due to expensive motors and slow assembly, we use artificial muscles - tubes wrapped in braided fiber powered by a single pump - enabling mass production by the millions. Our robots generate real-world data needed for general-purpose AI robotics and are designed from day one to be cheap and scalable for billions of homes.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in London, United Kingdom, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London offers strong engineering talent and access to advanced robotics research, making it the best place for us to build and mass-produce our humanoid robots.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Piggy Robotics YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Piggy Robotics's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Piggy Robotics would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.