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One Robot

World models for robot evals and training.

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveIndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics

What they do

Problem

Robotics teams are bottlenecked by slow, expensive, hard-to-scale real-world robot time for training and evaluating manipulation policies.

Solution

It builds world model-based, task-specific simulation environments that are visually and physically realistic for training and evaluating robot policies.

Who it's for

Robotics teams developing and testing manipulation policies, especially in manufacturing and material handling.

Founders

Hemanth Sarabu
Founder

Bringing robots to life using world models and machine learning. Previously built robot learning and perception systems at Industrial Next, Symbio Robotics, NASA JPL, and Google. Bootstrapped geospatial AI company, Crescer AI, to profitability.

Elton Shon
Founder

Robotics, SW/FW. Previously built robot learning and control system at Industrial Next and helped build Dojo at Tesla.

Open roles 4

Founding Machine Learning - World Models
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $275K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Founding Machine Learning - Eval Layer
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $275K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Founding Robot Learning
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $275K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Machine Learning Intern
San Francisco, CA, US · Internship · $6K - $8K / monthly
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