Asim
Asim is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 4.
About Asim
Summary
Asim builds safety research and testing infrastructure for robotics teams. It runs robots through real-world and simulated scenarios to measure physical harm, semantic misunderstanding, and malicious-use risks, benchmarking results against a human baseline. The work replaces ad-hoc internal safety validation with structured audits and a runtime layer that monitors, predicts, and blocks unsafe actions during execution.
Go-to-market
Robotics developers and manufacturers work with Asim directly, starting with safety testing engagements that produce detailed audit reports and improvement guidance.
From the Y Combinator listing
Enable robots to operate safely in the real world.
Asim is building standardized benchmarks for physical intelligence, helping robotics companies understand their robots’ capabilities and safety limits before deployment. We test real robots under changing physical conditions, varying shape, weight, friction and material, to identify where performance breaks down and give engineers actionable feedback. Our four founders include three PhD researchers, two specializing in robotics, with backgrounds at Sony and NASA JPL and two RoboCup@Home championship wins. Our ambition is to become the standard robotics teams use to measure progress and assess readiness for deployment.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 4
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
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