One Robot
YC W26 · Active · World models for robot evals and training.
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 EnactShared: robot, training, modelActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS26 |
 Moving AtomsShared: robot, training, modelActiveAI, Data | AI, Data | Active | YCS26 |
 IAM RoboticsShared: material handling, robot, manufacturingNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | Plug and Play |
 Avea RoboticsShared: robot, loopActiveOther | Other | Active | YCX26 |
 Remy AIShared: robot, training, modelActiveAI | AI | Active | YCW26 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aktoria RoboticsShared: robotActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS26 |
 FernShared: robot policy, scene, modelActiveDevtools | Devtools | Active | YCW26 |
 PolymathShared: simulation environment, evaluate, trainActiveAI | AI | Active | YCW26 |
 Dreamscale LabsShared: robot, model, farActiveAI, Devtools | AI, Devtools | Active | YCF26 |
 DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)Shared: robot, eval, collectActiveAI, Data | AI, Data | Active | YCS25 |
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About One Robot
One Robot builds simulation environments that are realistic to see and realistic to interact with, so robotics teams can train and evaluate robot policies without being bottlenecked by robot time. Today, improving a VLA often means more real-world hours: setting up the scene, running trials, resetting, and repeating. This loop is slow, expensive, and hard to scale. For example, material handling and manufacturing assembly tasks, models need far more training and evaluation data than teams can collect in the real world. We use task-specific data to build world model-based simulation environments for hard manipulation tasks (for example, textiles and box folding). These environments help teams run more training and evals, find failure modes faster, and accelerate iteration on action policies with less dependence on real-world data collection and robot availability.
- YC batch
- W26 · Winter 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Other
- Team size
- 2
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Checked
- 1h ago
One Robot: questions
Which YC batch was One Robot in?
One Robot was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is One Robot still active?
Y Combinator lists One Robot as active.
Where is One Robot based?
One Robot lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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