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Feather Robotics

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Feather Robotics is a San Francisco-area startup (founded 2025) building a modular, open-SDK wheeled bimanual mobile manipulator aimed at developers and…

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San Francisco, California, USA
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As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Feather Robotics: 1 model. 3 sources back the record.

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Overview

Feather Robotics is a San Francisco-area startup (founded 2025) building a modular, open-SDK wheeled bimanual mobile manipulator aimed at developers and integrators. Positions as hardware platform for third-party physical AI models rather than a closed general-purpose humanoid stack. Gradient Ventures led a $7.6M pre-seed; company site lists starting price $29,990 and claims manufacturing/food-service field work for about a year.

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Key facts

Stealth exit / developer humanoid platform (Sep 2026)

Reported (TechCrunch, Sep 24 2026) with company site corroboration (company-stated): Feather Robotics (founded 2025 by Hoa Mai, formerly sold a prior humanoid startup to 1X, and Parsa Bakhtiari, ex-Tesla Model 3) positions itself as an open hardware + SDK platform for developers rather than a closed general-purpose humanoid stack. Framing: modular bimanual mobile manipulator, open SDK (Python and ROS2), pick-your-AI stack (TechCrunch cites Nvidia, Skild, Physical Intelligence). Company site says working in manufacturing and food service for about a year

Gradient Ventures $7.6M pre-seed (company-stated via TechCrunch)

Reported (TechCrunch, Sep 24 2026): Gradient Ventures backed Feather at inception and led a previously announced $7.6M pre-seed. Raise amount, not a valuation. Cap: TechCrunch citing Gradient GP Darian Shirazi; company primary raise deck not reviewed here

Revenue past $1M / selling to customers (company-stated via TechCrunch)

Company-stated via TechCrunch (company-stated): Feather has begun selling to customers and surpassed $1M in revenue; robots cited as cooks in restaurants and cleaning science labs (customers not named). Mai said after about a year of field testing the company is preparing a bigger product launch. Cap: company claim via TechCrunch interview

Bimanual mobile platform

Feather describes its robot as a bimanual mobile platform with two 7-DoF arms, a 600 mm height-adjustable torso, and a holonomic base (Feather technology).

Open physical AI platform

Feather says its platform supports customer-selected compute and an open SDK with Python support for physical AI applications (Feather technology).

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Safety record

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Recent coverage

Feather Robotics in third-party press

‘로봇업계 안드로이드’ 노리는 페더, 760만 달러 프리시드 유치

Sep 29, 2026

Feather Raises $7.6M in Pre-Seed Funding to Build Humanoid Platform for Third-Party Developers

Sep 26, 2026

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