Robotics AI evaluator Robocurve raises $10M seed with YC participation
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-15
- Robocurve, an independent Public Benefit Corporation evaluating frontier AI in the physical world, raised a $10M seed led by Initialized, with notable cap, decasonic, Y Combinator, Halcyon and others participating.
- In under 3 months: 6M+ research views, 97k+ downloads of its evaluation harness, and researchers from 200+ institutions — including 19 of the world's top 20 universities — signed up to build benchmarks.
- The harness is fully open-source, and published benchmarks are runnable and verifiable by anyone. The team welcomes more third-party evaluators to help society understand how fast robotics AI is progressing.
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