You asked about Manufacturing and Robotics
269 people built something like it. 37 are gone.
That is 14% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 9 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 Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms · 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 | Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste · genecis.co | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTeleo Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment · teleo.ai | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2024-01-01 | YCYondu Robots to Automate Fulfillment · yondu.ai | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | efference.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | We build artificial intelligence processors inspired by the brain. · rain-neuromorphics.com | acquired |
| 2025-06-01 | YCDuranium Reshoring critical metal production · duranium.co | 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 |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous robots for retails. · taobotics.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2019-06-01 | The Fastest Scientific Computing Platform on the Planet · vorticity.xyz | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We Mine Asteroids · astroforge.io | 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 |
| 2025-01-01 | Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster · inversionsemi.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRMFG Advanced Contract MFG for fast moving hardware companies · rmfg.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –… · industrialnext.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShone Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. · shone.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We produce cancer-curing materials used in nuclear medicine. · atomicalchemy.us | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBotBuilt We use robots to build houses. · botbuilt.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDaedalus AWS for precision manufacturing · daedalus.de | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | Physical businesses that run themselves · parametric.company | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data. · bucket.bot | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry. · yummy-future.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI for Robot Arms in Factories · pivotrobotics.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCTensr Robotic factories that build robots · tensr.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Flexible printed OLED displays. · sinoviatech.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | AI models that teach robots new skills in hours · vernerobotics.com | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVathys Accelerating machine learning through software · vathys.ai | gone |
| 2026-09-01 | Robotics for AI Infrastructure · lambdarobotics.ai | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCAllus AI Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model · allus.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Metal manufacturing, faster, cheaper, and more versatile. · ultrasonium.com | still up |
How this compares
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.