Moving Atoms
Moving Atoms is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Moving Atoms
Summary
Moving Atoms builds simulation and data infrastructure for physical AI, giving robotics teams the assets, synthetic training data, and evaluation platforms they need to train and deploy robot policies at scale. Its RobotGym platform covers the full stack: robot ingestion, world modeling, skill creation via teleoperation or video-to-sim transfer, and deployment evaluation with regression testing. The company's world model, Atom 1, is trained on internet-scale video to predict physical interactions, replacing the need for costly real-world data collection at each stage of robot development.
Go-to-market
Robotics teams and physical AI developers are the primary customers, reached through a book-a-demo sales motion on the Moving Atoms website.
From the Y Combinator listing
World Model Lab for Evaluating and Training Robots.
Moving Atoms is building world models trained on internet scale video: models that accurately predict physical interactions and are conditioned on robot actions. Our first model, Atom 1, already tops the Physics IQ benchmark. An exceptional world model is what makes an exceptional robot model possible, and that's phase two. LLMs were unlocked by the trillions of text tokens sitting free on the internet. We believe robotics gets unlocked a similar way, by the latent physics information in online video content.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Ahmad Saroya
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