Instance
Instance is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Instance
Summary
Instance builds automated verification for robot training pipelines. Given a task description and camera footage, it returns a success verdict with evidence for each rollout episode, replacing manual human judgment of whether a robot completed its task. Robotics teams use it to filter and trust training data faster, accelerating policy improvement.
Business model
API calls to a verification endpoint per episode
Go-to-market
Robotics teams and researchers integrate directly via API; founders offer hands-on onboarding through direct demo bookings.
From the Y Combinator listing
Automated evals for robot policies
We’re automating robot evaluation– the loop where you wait for your robot to roll out, judge its success, and then reset the scene. We're starting with step one: a success detector that automatically tells you whether your robot actually completed its task along with detailed subtask breakdown. We're MIT computer scientists & friends since middle school, with backgrounds at NASA JPL, SpaceX, and AWS. Book a demo with founders@instancelabs.ai.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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