12,000 sqft robotic factory builds humanoids to ISS robots, learning from its own mistakes
ycombinator · x · 2026-08-27
A robotics startup shares its 12,000 sqft factory where robots build robots, manufacturing everything from full humanoids to robots for the International Space Station.
The author stresses industrial automation is far more than robotic grasping models—it's supply chain, logistics, design iteration, process optimization, and throughput. Their bet: a factory that learns directly from its own mistakes in real time rather than ever-larger human demonstration datasets, aiming to autonomously go from order to finished production run in 24 hours.
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