Shiraz AI
Shiraz AI is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Shiraz AI
Summary
Shiraz AI builds robots that learn a new factory task from a single human video demonstration, with no programming, CAD, or teach-pendant work required. The target customer is contract manufacturers whose lines reconfigure weekly, a pace that makes traditional fixed automation impractical and current vision-language-action models unreliable. Shiraz delivers the full stack: hardware, foundation model, and on-site deployment.
Business model
Full-stack deployment: hardware, model, and on-site deployment delivered together.
Go-to-market
Shiraz targets contract manufacturing facilities directly; the founding team engages customers hands-on, with robots already operational at customer sites.
From the Y Combinator listing
Robots that learn on the job
We deploy robots that learn new tasks from a single human demonstration in the factory. We're starting in contract manufacturing, where lines change every week and both traditional automation and today's VLAs fall over. Our founding team has 20+ years of experience in robotics. Navid was part of the core team that productized Spot at Boston Dynamics and led manipulation projects there. Before that, he was at Rethink Robotics. Mojtaba led whole-body control and manipulation efforts at Amazon Robotics and was a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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