SuperRadiant builds Embodied Scientific Intelligence: general-purpose robotic experimentalists that observe, form hypotheses and run experiments in the physical world. The system automates the full experimental loop while staying flexible enough for real discovery work, adapting to changing protocols and new instruments. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Cooper Niu, Benedict Quartey and Owen Tower, with a team drawn from Brown, NASA JPL, Fermilab and CERN. Y Combinator Fall 2026.

Robotics Energy Advanced-Materials YC AI Biotechnology+1 more

5 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Dreamscale Labs launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Dreamscale Labs is building the fastest cloud inference platform for robotics. As complex physical AI models become too large to fit on expensive on-robot GPUs, Dreamscale lets robotics teams offload inference to the cloud and serves it back with real-time latency — so far hitting 40-50% lower latency than existing neoclouds. Its first product is Dropbear. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Eric Ren, Kevin Lin, Antoine Nguyen and Chris Yoo.

Artificial-Intelligence Robotics Infrastructure YC Industrials

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Sinter launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Accelerating scaled plastics with additive technologies

3d-printing Manufacturing Advanced-Materials YC Industrials

2 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Orca Aerospace launches at YC (Fall 2026)

AI spacecraft operator that lives onboard the vehicle.

Aiops Space-Exploration Satellites YC Industrials

31 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Frontier Computing launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate

Artificial-Intelligence Hard-Tech Hardware YC Industrials

26 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Talos launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Talos builds predictive maintenance for power infrastructure. It continuously monitors critical power equipment, detects meaningful changes in behaviour, and tells teams where to look before a failure becomes an outage. Founded in 2026 by Kevin Hwang, Amitav Kohli and Himani Musku, the Baltimore-based company is in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch.

Deep-Learning IOT Energy YC Industrials

23 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Ethos Space Resources launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Ethos Space Resources makes solar-grade silicon on the Moon. Demand for AI compute is compounding toward a terawatt a year of new capacity, and once data centres head to orbit it is rocket capacity, not the grid, that caps the buildout — so terawatt-scale AI in space has to be built from mass already outside Earth's gravity well. Ethos melts, electrolyses and purifies lunar regolith in hard vacuum, a single process that yields construction materials, rocket propellant and solar-grade silicon, tested in the company's own lunar environment chamber. The work starts with mining and construction for the first heavy landings: landing pads, propellant for the trip home, and silicon that turns sunlight into more capacity. Founded in 2022 by Ross Centers (Planetary Sunshade Institute) and Brogan BamBrogan (former principal propulsion engineer at SpaceX, co-founder of Hyperloop One), Ethos is based in Los Angeles and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.

Hard-Tech Exascale-Computing 3d-printing YC Energy Aerospace+1 more

18 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26