Robocurve YC Application
San Francisco
Robocurve went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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
- Summer 2026
- Industry
- IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 3
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Jay ChooiFounder/CEO
What Robocurve does
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.
Robocurve's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Robocurve, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Robocurve
Open-source evals and benchmarks for robots
We build open-source tools and independent, reproducible robot benchmarks. Our main product is Inspect Robots, an open-source framework for benchmarking real-world robot performance. We run physical setups to benchmark frontier robotic models on actual hardware, not just simulation. Our goal is to provide trusted, standardized scores that labs, companies, and the robotics community can rely on.
San Francisco, CA, USA. The company will stay based here after YC.
We are in San Francisco because it is the center of robotics and AI activity. It gives us access to hardware, labs, and early customers.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Robocurve YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Robocurve's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Robocurve would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Robocurve in?
Robocurve was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Robocurve?
Robocurve was founded by Jay Chooi.
What does Robocurve do?
Evals for robots
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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