Hlabs
Hlabs is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 1.
About Hlabs
Summary
Hlabs manufactures US-made electronic and mechanical components for robotics teams, covering actuators and other core building blocks that builders currently source overseas or fabricate themselves. It sells plug-and-play robotic primitives for early-stage development and works with production-scale teams on custom designs. Customers build across household robots, humanoids, arms, quadrupeds, and defense platforms.
Go-to-market
Robotics teams across hardware categories buy directly from Hlabs, starting with off-the-shelf primitive components and moving to bespoke engagements as their production scales.
From the Y Combinator listing
US-Made Parts for Robots
HLabs is making an industrial supply chain for building robots in the USA including electronics and actuators, with a focus on in-house manufacturing. Robotics is going to be one of the largest industries the world has ever seen. Teams have to buy what they can from overseas and then build everything else in house just to get something to move. HLabs is producing a plug and play set of robotic primitives to accelerate the early development and then working with larger scale production robots for bespoke designs. Early customers span across household robotics, humanoids, robot arms, quadrupeds, and defense. Hlabs is founded by Paul, a second time YC founder who also participated in the W21 batch with Mystic. He ran Mystic as CEO for 6 years.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 1
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
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