Origami Robotics
Origami Robotics is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 5.
About Origami Robotics
Summary
Origami Robotics builds a general-purpose dexterous robotic hand and a paired data-collection glove designed to match each other exactly, eliminating the gap between data capture and robot deployment. The system targets manual tasks in manufacturing and logistics, replacing human operators on manipulation work that conventional industrial robots cannot handle. Real-world data collected across deployed units trains a general manipulation model, which feeds automation solutions back to those same industries.
Go-to-market
Target customers are manufacturing factories and logistics centers; Origami Robotics deploys its hardware devices at those sites both to gather training data and to deliver automation solutions directly to industrial operators.
From the Y Combinator listing
Manipulate Anything Robot
We are building a "manipulate anything" model with the robot hardware that embodies it. We designed a hand-based data-collection device and a high DOF, direct drive robotic hand that match each other exactly, enabling us to eliminate embodiment gap and collect real-world data and deploy it directly. We want to scale real world manipulation data by deploying our devices "in the wild" like manufacturing factories, logistic centers to collect Tesla like data, use these data to train our model and then provide automation solutions to these industries.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 5
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Ryan Xie
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