Grip

Building robots for waste management
YC S26

[Jonas Gruetter @Jonnygrutt]

Amazing few days at YC. Now back with the robot. The team has been absolutely cooking.

[Grip @griprobotics]

Grip builds intelligent robots that pick the trash existing sorting machines can't.

Robotic manipulation just started working. Foundation models can now grasp the deformable, entangled, never-before-seen objects that waste streams are full of, on hardware that's finally cheap enough to make the economics work. We install modular robotic cells and every pick makes the whole fleet smarter.

We start with plastic contamination in organic waste, then expand to every stream where machines still leave the hard objects to humans. Grip is becoming the general manipulation platform for global waste infrastructure.

Founded by robotics engineers from ETH Zürich. Backed by Y Combinator (S26).