You asked about Medical Robotics
311 people built something like it. 46 are gone.
That is 16% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 20 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | Robotic Automation for cancer diagnostics - Robotic Microscopes &… · morphlelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Exoskeletons to help people walk, starting with children · trexorobotics.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Automated tooth cutting for dentists using imaging, AI and robotics · perceptive.io | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCArchForm Replacing orthodontic braces with our clear aligner and software · archform.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | AWS for manufacturing. · voodoomfg.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | Autonomous surgical robots · andromedasurgical.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | A new way of seeing inside the human body. · illuminant.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Surgical robotics for every operating room · revolvesurgical.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | We produce cancer-curing materials used in nuclear medicine. · atomicalchemy.us | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | Next-Generation Surgical Navigation and Robotics · zetasurgical.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | We make robots for biologists. · opentrons.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology · maymobility.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCAerones Robotics for wind turbine maintenance. · aerones.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Modern primary care via video and in-person · circlemedical.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | AI + Robotics for the Built World · geckorobotics.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | 3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes. · mightybuildings.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Software platform for in-home healthcare · versemedical.com | still up |
| 2022-03-19 | mage.health | unverified |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCDrChrono The essential platform for modern medical practices and patients. · drchrono.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSRTX Powering a better future for textiles. · srtxlabs.com | still up |
| 2021-07-21 | foxglove.dev | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Physical AI data lab · humanarchive.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. · shinkei.systems | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBBy BBy powders breast milk that's immunologically active & lasts 6 months · bbymilk.com | still up |
| 2023-11-11 | gptroad.com | unverified |
| 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLuminate We make cancer care at home possible. · luminatemed.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Remote patient monitoring for lung disease patients. · spirehealth.com | acquired |
| 2014-06-01 | Quantum coherent supercomputing. · rigetti.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world. · voltalabs.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLatent Medical language models to automate healthcare operations · latenthealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Pioneering Breast Cancer Diagnostics for a Healthier Tomorrow · digistain.co.uk | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCOverview Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software · overview.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCAON3D Additive Manufacturing with advanced materials · aon3d.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making all ships robots. · fleetzero.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Orangewood Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms · orangewood.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists. · reshapebiotech.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Bringing non-invasive brain stimulation from the hospital to the home · actipulseneuroscience.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry · multiplylabs.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Building AI therapeutics for physical health conditions like IBS. · mindsethealth.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Supplying America's Industrial Base · noxmetals.co | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSkyways Creating a new form of air transportation to advance our civilization · skyways.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSOMATIC Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings. · getsomatic.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Software for medical laboratories and clinics · dashlabs.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS · isengardindustries.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Autonomous drones to help warehouses scan inventory. · corvus-robotics.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPulse Electronic Medical Records for India · getpulse.care | gone |
| 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | Medical Record Retrieval with Zero Human Error · codeshealth.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles · polymathrobotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Robots that build solar farms · chargerobotics.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCAlchemy Nanotechnology-enabled coatings for automotive and defence sectors · alchemynano.com | still up |
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.