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Philon

Building open-source general-purpose robots capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Building open-source general-purpose robots capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.

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open-source general-purpose robotsunsafe
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Companies similar to Philon

Other · 5 peers

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Cortex AI

match 55

Cortex AI builds the world’s most diverse and large-scale real-world workplace robot & egocentric dataset — where the physical world becomes the next training and evaluation set for embodied AI. We power frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots by providing the data they need: 1️⃣ Egocentric Data — real-workplace human video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels. 2️⃣ Robot Data — trajectories collected from manipulators and humanoids in real industr

shared extracted concept terms: general, purpose, robot; shared product terms: general, purpose, robot; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Innate

match 45

We make personal AI robots - general-purpose physical machines that anyone can program with code, language and demonstrations. We believe building open platforms like the first PCs this is the only way to bring the robotics future that we all want, where everyone can participate in the robotics revolution.

shared extracted concept terms: general, purpose; shared product terms: robot, general, purpose; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

K-Scale Labs

match 30

We're building humanoid robots to do most of what you find boring or tedious. We have an open-source design which we are releasing to the public, which is capable of walking, talking and manipulating objects.

shared product terms: robot, boring, capable; shared product theme: open source and local first; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

General Astronautics

match 17

Robots for microgravity research and manufacturing.

shared product terms: robot, general; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Aerones

match 17

We have created a robotic system for wind turbine blade maintenance. It can perform tasks such as lightning conductivity testing, high-resolution inspection, drainage hole cleaning, cleaning, painting and leading-edge repair.

shared product terms: perform, task; shared affiliation: Y Combinator