# Cartwheel Robotics: company

Canonical ID: `eb552e0f-43eb-44ce-885e-7afd0ea8fa0b`

## Key facts

- **Founder:** Founded by ex-Boston Dynamics and ex-Disney engineer Scott LaValley
- **Robot:** Yogi, a small toddler-proportioned social home humanoid
- **Stage:** Shut down in early 2026
- **Backers:** Unable to raise hardware-scaling capital

- **Slug:** cartwheel-robotics
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2022
- **HQ:** unknown

## Models

- [Yogi](/models/cartwheel-robotics-yogi.md) (companion_robot) (id: `7335f10a-2bf5-4b3a-8083-c8f84c16a899`)

## Founders (1)

- [Scott LaValley](/people/scott-lavalley.md) _no longer at company_

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Scott LaValley](/people/scott-lavalley.md) founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

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## Sources (1)

1. https://spectrum.ieee.org/cartwheel-robotics-humanoid

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