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We’re automating robot evaluation– the loop where you wait for your robot to roll out, judge its success, and then reset the scene. We're starting with step one: a success detector that automatically tells you whether your robot actually completed its task along with detailed subtask breakdown. We're MIT computer scientists & friends since middle school, with backgrounds at NASA JPL, SpaceX, and AWS. Book a demo with founders@instancelabs.ai.

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Y Combinator
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Y Combinator

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We’re automating robot evaluation– the loop where you wait for your robot to roll out, judge its success, and then reset the scene. We're starting with step one: a success detector that automatically tells you whether your robot actually completed its task along with detailed subtask breakdown. We're MIT computer scientists & friends since middle school, with backgrounds at NASA JPL, SpaceX, and AWS. Book a demo with founders@instancelabs.ai.

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AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Glasskube

match 60

Managing enterprise software deployments shouldn’t feel like a balancing act. At Glasskube, we make deploying, managing, and updating software in on-premises, VPC, and air-gapped environments easier than ever. Our Mission: We empower software vendors to deliver exceptional customer experiences with less complexity. Whether you’re onboarding new clients, rolling out updates, or troubleshooting issues, our Software Distribution Platform streamlines every step. The founders have been best friends f

shared product terms: whether, re, roll, out; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

MorphoAI

match 54

We're building an AI powered platform for engineers that are building new robots and machines. We allow users to invent and modify machine designs in a matter of minutes, not years. Ayna and Andy, the co-founders, met during their time at Harvard and started this in 2024 as their programs were wrapping up. We're commercializing 10+ years research done by our team at Harvard and MIT on this space. Our team wrote the very first papers on applying GenAI and optimization algorithms to compose robots

shared extracted concept terms: robot; shared product terms: re, robot, start, mit; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vizly

match 44

Vizly helps you get the most out of your data by turning it into actionable insights in seconds. Whether you're a researcher, professor, data analyst, or business leader, Vizly's AI capabilities enable you to visualize, analyze, and interpret your data effortlessly. For example, Vizly can automatically generate interactive visualizations, perform detailed statistical analyses, and offer predictive insights, making your data analysis workflow seamless. Before Vizly, Ali built out people-based AI

shared product terms: re, out, automatically, whether; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

RadMate AI

match 41

We’re building the AI copilot for radiologists, powered by a foundational model for medical imaging. RadMate AI will read radiology images and generate full reports for radiologists to review and submit. Mohamed and Adam are technical co-founders who met while studying Computer Science at Cornell University. Before starting RadMate AI to solve the problems his dad faced as a radiologist, Adam worked at Palantir on the initial launch of Palantir’s Al Platform. Mohamed has experience at AWS, where

shared product terms: re, start, computer, aws; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Milo

match 41

Milo is the Family AI. We give busy parents back time + mindshare by tackling the daily details with a behind the scenes co-pilot. By pairing a human in the loop with the latest in LLM capabilities we're able to effectively build a copilot for detailed, high context and noisy tasks, via a simple conversational SMS interface.

shared product terms: re, loop, scene, task; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Ceemo.ai

match 27

At Perfectly Pitched, we're automating our pitch methods that break past bias & get founders funded, raising $10m in the past year.

shared product terms: re, automat, founder; same category: AI infrastructure