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Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
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| AI | Active | YC +1W25 | |
| AI | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI | Active | YCF24 | |
| AI | Active | YCS21 | |
| AI | Active | YCS26 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
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| Lucid BotsShared: drones, manufacturing, roboticsYC S19ActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS19 |
| AI, Data | Active | YCX25 | |
| Other | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI | Active | YCF26 |
Also from F26
All of F26About Open Actuation
We design and manufacture high-mix drone motors and robotic actuators in LA. DJI, Apple, and Ford don't settle for OTS components. Likewise, the teams that win the Western robotics market will build seamless machines from tightly integrated software and hardware. Open Actuation designs motors and actuators around your robot's unique form factor and mission - then we rapidly bring them to life with proprietary software and tooling geared for high-mix machining and assembly. We've designed and built motors for top drone OEMs and can assemble thousands of motors per month at our first factory in LA. We're doing for motion components what 3D printing has done for structural components. This enables hardware teams to build and iterate at the speed of software so they can create elegant, reliable, ROI-positive robots and win massive markets.
- YC batch
- F26 · Fall 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Other
- Team size
- 2
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Checked
- 6h ago
YC tags: Hard Tech, Robotics, Drones, Manufacturing, Electronics
Changes seen
Renamed from Pendulum Robotics.
Moved its website from pendulumrobotics.com to openactuation.com.
Former name added: Pendulum Robotics.
Website link changed from https://pendulumrobotics.com to https://openactuation.com.
Joined Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).
Open Actuation: questions
Which YC batch was Open Actuation in?
Open Actuation was in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).
Is Open Actuation still active?
Y Combinator lists Open Actuation as active.
Where is Open Actuation based?
Open Actuation lists Los Angeles, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.