Human Archive
Human Archive is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 4.
About Human Archive
Summary
Human Archive collects, labels, and delivers large-scale multimodal datasets, covering RGB, RGB-D, audio, tactile, motion capture, and robot data, to frontier labs and general-purpose robotics companies building foundation models. The company designs and deploys custom hardware across residential and manufacturing environments, then runs the captured data through internal quality assurance, anonymization, and annotation pipelines. It replaces the fragmented, low-volume data collection efforts that robotics teams would otherwise run themselves.
Go-to-market
Frontier AI and robotics labs are the primary buyers, reached directly through researcher outreach; prospective customers can request a dashboard and data samples via the website.
From the Y Combinator listing
Multimodal data provider for robotics and world modeling
We’re archiving the physical world for embodied intelligence by collecting and labeling aligned multimodal data. To build dexterous and perceptive robots that generalize robustly, we need massive amounts of real-world data across multiple modalities and environments. We have thought deeply about the fine line between biomimicry and its application to humanoid systems. Based on this research, we design and deploy custom hardware across residential and manufacturing settings. We then post-process the resulting data through internal QA, anonymization, and annotation pipelines to deliver diverse, high-fidelity datasets at scale to frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robotics companies. We believe we are at a historic inflection point, with a unique opportunity to leave a dent on humanity and reshape physical labor markets forever. That's why our team dropped out of Stanford and Berkeley and moved to Asia to collect the world’s largest annotated multimodal dataset.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 4
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
- Rushil Agarwal
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