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building RoboDock (YC W26) ⚡️ mechatronics 🤖 stanford '20 + '22 🌲

[Ollie Forsyth @ollieforsyth]

.@ycombinator's Demo Day is 5 days away...

(and this may be one of the strongest batches yet.)

Each cycle, YC Partners work closely with breakout startups that should be on your radar.

One of those partners is @gustaf, ex-Airbnb and a former YC founder.

Over the past few months, he’s been coaching startups such as 👇

👉 AI platform for precision outbound: Cardinal (@DevishiJha, @jianna_liu)

👉 AI customer support that proactively engages high-value users: @returnsignalshq

👉 Help equipment dealers sell more: @chasi_ai

👉 Develop software faster: @emdashsh

👉 Robots that run autonomous depots for autonomous fleets: RoboDock (@nicenewgal)

👉 Your AI employee that works while you sleep: @tensol_ai

👉 Realtime AI meeting assistant starting with sales: @ishikilabs

👉 AI-native workspace for development plan reviews: @autositu

👉 Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI Agents like OpenClaw: Clam (@vaibagra)

👉 Strength tracking wearable: @fortwearable

👉 Synthetic sciences is Claude Code for science: @SynScience

👉 AI voice agent for patient calls & admin workflows: @PatientdeskAI

👉 Vercel for background agents: @terminaluse

👉 Digital twins of humans: @MantisBiotech

👉 Agentic offensive security at scale: @_hex_security

👉 A desktop AI workspace that replaces MS Office with agents: @usecarson

👉 AI that automatically improves products from user behavior: @lucent_ai

👉 Agentic AI for patent attorneys: @StiltaIP

👉 AI-native platform for life-sciences documentation: @ritivel

👉 Commercial insurance brokerage run by AI agents: Panta (@dsdvincent)

👉 Agentic revenue growth for home service businesses: @robby_assistant

Keep an eye on these - some of them will be huge!

Good luck to all W26 founders 🚀

[celine @nicenewgal]

RoboDock featured on Forbes 🫶 YC W26 has been incredible, can’t believe Demo Day is in 1 week!

[Dasha @dasha_shunina]

Meet 21 most promising startups from @ycombinator latest batch 👀

https://t.co/3DLK3m3Cdr

[celine @nicenewgal]

@dasha_shunina @ycombinator Such an awesome group of founders, so honored to be building alongside these folks!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@mirandanover Amazing!!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ycombinator @getnoetic @togao0 @henrypzheng @J4ckJ1Y Congrats!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ycombinator @Haladirofficial Congrats!!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@sanchitmonga22 @RunAnywhereAI @WisprFlow Awesome!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ycombinator @OneRobotHQ @hsarabu_ @eltonbear6996 Congrats!!!!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ycombinator @WyeYew @zizixcm Congrats!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ycombinator @ishikilabs Congrats!!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@TheRealEngg Yes🙌🙌

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ycombinator @usereframe So awesome!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@layla_electric @ycombinator Really appreciate it! We’re aligned on the vision!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@ECwizardDan @ycombinator Thanks so much!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@akashpavan @ycombinator Thank you!

[celine @nicenewgal]

@sanchitmonga22 @ycombinator Thank you Sanchit!! 🙏

[celine @nicenewgal]

@cyrilbertheau @ycombinator “School project” problems usually don’t cost fleets millions in labor and downtime :)
Maintenance/cleaning is harder, but depot autonomy has to start somewhere.
Wireless charging requires fleets to completely change their infrastructure and vehicles and have perfect conditions.

[celine @nicenewgal]

@Photoncatlabs @ycombinator Inductive+pogo require changing every vehicle in every fleet, not to mention power inefficiencies and perfect charging conditions (alignment, weather). Try convincing fleets to do that.
ECU data isn’t a full picture. OBD don't capture external failure modes like tire + mech wear

[celine @nicenewgal]

@R2rule1 @ycombinator By that logic, every car company would manufacture their own autonomous software, charging stations, and robotaxi depots. And OpenAI would solve every AI problem in the world. Capability != focus, we need specialization for a reason :)

[Gustaf Alströmer @gustaf]

Autonomous cars are only a autonomous on the road, the rest is a 24/7 manual operation. Zinny and Celine from Robodock are changing that. All-star team building the inevitable future.