You asked about Manufacturing and Robotics
290 people built something like it. 37 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 10 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | AI + Robotics for the Built World · geckorobotics.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSRTX Powering a better future for textiles. · srtxlabs.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Physical AI data lab · humanarchive.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Software orchestrated mass production of plastics · atomic.industries | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories · fluxauto.ai | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | Quantum coherent supercomputing. · rigetti.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Orangewood builds amazing robots that people want. · orangewood.co | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCAON3D Additive Manufacturing with advanced materials · aon3d.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCOverview Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software · overview.ai | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry · multiplylabs.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Supplying America's Industrial Base · noxmetals.co | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSOMATIC Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings. · getsomatic.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTeleo Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment · teleo.ai | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste · genecis.co | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. · lucidbots.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Practical and delightful home robots · weaverobotics.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles · polymathrobotics.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCAlchemy Nanotechnology-enabled coatings for automotive and defence sectors · alchemynano.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Robots that build solar farms · chargerobotics.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Software Enabled CNC Parts Supplier · forgeautomation.ca | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI-native Robotics · nexterarobotics.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | AWS for manufacturing. · voodoomfg.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCJITX Automatic circuit board design. · jitx.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | The operating system for factory production lines · aisupervision.com | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | YCDuranium Reshoring critical metal production · duranium.co | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | efference.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCYondu Robots to Automate Fulfillment · yondu.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | We build artificial intelligence processors inspired by the brain. · rain-neuromorphics.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous robots for retails. · taobotics.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | Wire Harnesses in as little as 7 days · loombotic.com | still up |
| 2007-01-01 | YCOctopart Octopart is a search engine for electronic components · octopart.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… · robby.io | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle · proception.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | GreaseBoss verifes industrial machinery is greased correctly · greaseboss.com.au | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCVendra Custom Parts, Manufactured in America 🇺🇸 · vendra.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We Mine Asteroids · astroforge.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | The Fastest Scientific Computing Platform on the Planet · vorticity.xyz | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster · inversionsemi.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –… · industrialnext.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRMFG Advanced Contract MFG for fast moving hardware companies · rmfg.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBotBuilt We use robots to build houses. · botbuilt.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | We produce cancer-curing materials used in nuclear medicine. · atomicalchemy.us | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShone Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. · shone.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | Physical businesses that run themselves · parametric.company | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI for Robot Arms in Factories · pivotrobotics.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDaedalus AWS for precision manufacturing · daedalus.de | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | AI models that teach robots new skills in hours · vernerobotics.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Flexible printed OLED displays. · sinoviatech.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders · theseus.bot | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry. · yummy-future.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data. · bucket.bot | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCTensr Robotic factories that build robots · tensr.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCAllus AI Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model · allus.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The spot market for semiconductors · mobiusmaterials.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | We make robots that move boxes in warehouses · autopallet.bot | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Human as API for robots · aktoria.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCArylla We connect products to the internet using an invisible, chip-less tag · arylla.com | gone |
| 2026-09-01 | Evaluation Infrastructure for Robotics (YC F26) · lambdarobotics.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVathys Accelerating machine learning through software · vathys.ai | gone |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.