You asked about Medical Robotics
39 people built something like it. 5 are gone.
That is 14% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | Surgical robotics for every operating room · revolvesurgical.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 2021-07-21 | foxglove.dev | 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLuminate We make cancer care at home possible. · luminatemed.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists. · reshapebiotech.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Pioneering Breast Cancer Diagnostics for a Healthier Tomorrow · digistain.co.uk | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Software for medical laboratories and clinics · dashlabs.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Robots that build solar farms · chargerobotics.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNeodocs Instant lab tests on your smartphone · neodocs.in | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Autonomous medical care · legionhealth.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | GreaseBoss verifes industrial machinery is greased correctly · greaseboss.com.au | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We help nurses in nursing homes to be 30% more effective · momomedical.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Desktop DNA Printer. The Nespresso Machine for DNA. · kilobaser.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We make injections as easy as pushing a button! · pirouettepharma.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSafeBeat Guiding cardiac therapeutics - all from your phone · safebeat.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRMFG Advanced Contract MFG for fast moving hardware companies · rmfg.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Portable cryoablation to prevent cervical cancer · ananya.health | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBotBuilt We use robots to build houses. · botbuilt.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMable First personalized migraine clinic using genetics and telehealth. · trymable.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRinse We're building the One Medical for dental · rinse.dental | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles · hermes-robotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | One-hour antibiotic sensitivity testing · astekdx.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Breaking new ground in online eyecare. · quadranteye.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | The medical record & infrastructure stack for digital health companies · akutehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Transforming the lives of millions of women suffering from chronic… · vflowmedicalinc.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | 2 sided Marketplace for accelerating medical research · infiuss.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction. · rointech.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense · heo-robotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Semi-Autonomous Diagnostics for Emergent Care · cairehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Immediate stroke detection at home · zeitmedical.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Reinventing respiration monitoring · makaniscience.net | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAuricle Neurostimulation implant to restore hearing & speech understanding · auricle.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Bringing back blimps · buoyant.aero | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Home medical equipment, prescribed online and delivered. · equipthealth.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.
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.