Robocurve

LLM & Generative AI · Robotics AI

Overview

Robocurve is a Public Benefit Corporation helping society understand the state of robot intelligence. We build open-source tools and independent benchmarks to evaluate how capable AI models and embodiments are in the real, physical world.

Funding and backers

Backers
3
Y Combinator, Initialized Capital
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 6 On the Hacker News front page GPT-6 Astra on robot arms · 242 points Jun 2026 Went through Y Combinator 2025 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
16 public repositories · +15%
Hacker News stories
4
best: 242 points
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Shared investors3
Notable CapitalVia a fund
127 portfolio companies: Zendesk, Generalist AI, Workstream and 124 more
185 portfolio companies: Outer Bio\", Icarus, Hop Aero and 182 more
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

News

News NBC News 2 months ago
New research shows AI behavior can be less safe with robots
NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Robocurve CEO Jay Choi and Robocurve Member of Technical Staff Edward Sun about the tests and research they are conducting on the safety of artificial intelligence and robots including models from both Open AI and Anthropi
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News CNET 2 months ago
Disturbing Experiment Points to Dangers of Using AI Models Not Meant for Robotics
The point of the unsafe prompts was to test what happens when you hand physical agency over to LLMs.
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News Robocurve 2 months ago
RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
Three robot policies given five instructions they should refuse. How often they refused, how often they carried them out.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ