Piggy Robotics
Piggy Robotics is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Team of 15.
About Piggy Robotics
Summary
Piggy Robotics builds humanoid robots designed for household chores, targeting everyday consumers rather than industrial operators. Instead of conventional electric motors, the robots use artificial muscles: flexible tubes wrapped in braided fibre and driven by a single pump, a construction method cheap enough to support mass production at scale. The goal is to put a physical robot in the home that handles routine domestic tasks a person would otherwise do themselves.
Business model
Consumer purchase price comparable to a smartphone
Go-to-market
Targets individual homeowners as the end buyer, with a direct-to-consumer model aimed at achieving the kind of volume needed to place units in billions of households.
From the Y Combinator listing
Humanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone!
We build humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices. Just like the millions of cars generating data for self-driving, we need millions of humanoids generating real-world data for general-purpose robotics. Humanoid companies today can only manufacture hundreds a year because motors are expensive and slow to assemble. We use artificial muscles. Each muscle is just a tube wrapped in braided fibre, and the whole robot is powered by a single pump — which means we can mass-produce humanoids by the millions. Our design is built for that scale from day one and is cheap enough to enter billions of homes.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- 15
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Richard Gong
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