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Intelligence Factory

Human Intelligence for Robots

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveIndustrialsManufacturing and RoboticsArtificial IntelligenceRobotics

What they do

Problem

Robots struggle to reason and operate effectively in human-built environments because intelligence and learning are the primary bottlenecks as hardware converges.

Solution

They provide a general robot intelligence platform that trains robots through human-like learning from seeing, doing, and feeling to enable reasoning and action across different robots.

Who it's for

Robotics companies and developers building robots that need general-purpose intelligence to perform tasks in real-world human environments.

Founders

Yash Sinha
Founder

Co-founder and CEO - Intelligence Factory. Robotics ETH Zurich. Ex-Founder/CTO Kaio Labs. F1 Simulation Engineer. On a mission to unlock generalized robotics.

Jalaj Shukla
Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Intelligence Factory - Unlocking Robotics Previously: MTS (Manipulation, VLA, Controls) at Dimensional, Sr. Robotics Engineer (Manipulation) at Blue Sky Robotics, CV Engineer at Applied Materials, R&D SWE at Ansys. MS in Robotics & Mechatronics from UPenn, GRASP Lab RA on multimodal manipulation policies. Earlier, worked as Research Fellow at DRDO, Ministry of Defence. Love cooking and exploring new places, active meditator and poet.

Open roles 1

Founding Engineer: Manipulation
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $80K - $200K · 0.10% - 5.00%
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