Grocery Store Automation with Intelligent Robotics
Yondu develops robots to help fill the over 4 million unfilled retail jobs. Our first robot is designed to pick, stock, and face shelves in grocery stores. We believe the next phase of robotics is in multi use robots that operate in dynamic environments around people.
Active Founders
Michael Chen, Founder
Michael Chen is at a unique crossroads with a background in intelligent machines from MIT and research experience at the forefront of robotics and AI. He helped build an open source bipedal robot at MIT CSAIL. Michael is an avid entrepreneur who has always loved business (even owning a sauce brand). For fun, he builds all sorts of cool machines ranging from FPV drones to train track cleaning robots to gasoline powered snowboards.
Tahmid Jamal, Founder
Tahmid graduated from MIT with degrees in AI and AeroAstro. There he's worked on projects ranging from language model compression and quantization to astrodynamics simulations for a decadal solar research proposal to NASA. He was doing his master's researching uncertainty estimation methods in deep learning before dropping out to participate in YC. In his free time, he enjoys movies, board games, and climbing the occasional tree.
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