Robocurve
Independent real-world evaluations and open benchmarks for physical AI
About
Robocurve builds open-source tools and independent benchmarks to measure how well robots can do real-world jobs. Instead of relying on unverified demo videos from frontier labs, we score their models on reproducible benchmarks that anyone can trust. Today there are no well-run, standardized robotics benchmarks. Labs evaluate in-house, and no independent group has stepped in to run continuous benchmarking as a service. The result is that no one actually knows how good anyone else is, or where the real frontier sits. Good benchmarks require operating and maintaining physical hardware and real-world setups. Simulation only goes so far, since models that look strong in sim can show large performance gaps once deployed in the real world. Building real-world benchmarks means coordinating job-domain experts, evals engineering, and hands-on robotics all at once. Frontier labs are targeting general-purpose robotics by 2028, yet the field of robotics evals barely exists. Whoever builds the trusted measure of robot capability becomes the reference everyone relies on. We combine backgrounds in AI evals and robotics to build and grow this field as fast as possible. We already shipped v1 of our open-source framework, Inspect Robots, and ran our first pilot scoring a frontier model on a real robot. Robocurve is a Y Combinator company (Summer 2026). YC-listed status: Active.
- Website
- robocurve.org
- Stage
- seed
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
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- web
- Ownership
- unclaimed
Where to go
Products
- Inspect Robots — Open-source framework to evaluate AI models on real robots · Open Source
- Robocurve — Open-source tools and independent benchmarks for evaluating AI models and robots on real-world physical tasks. · Open Source · Open Source
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- Y Combinator profileycombinator