# Robocurve: AI company

Canonical ID: `5c4ee239-f18c-47ca-9ccc-fb76df7df1ac`

## Key facts

- **RoboDojo-RC Tier 1 benchmark (company-run):** Six real-world tasks on bimanual YAM arms, such as stacking bowls, capping a pen and sorting objects, scored on a progress rubric across 1,431 runs.
- **RoboDojo-RC Tier 1 top score (company-run, Oct 2026):** Gemini 4 Argon (high) leads with a 48.2% mean score over 120 attempts, ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol (high) at 41.7%.
- **Cost per robot subtask (company-claimed, Oct 2026):** Estimated API cost for frontier LLMs to complete a RoboDojo-RC Tier 1 subtask fell from $2.36 in July to $0.38 in September 2026, halving about every 3 weeks.
- **RoboHarm v1 benchmark (company-run):** Tests whether robot policies refuse unsafe instructions; models refused for safety in 26.4% of 698 runs.
- **Inspect Robots framework (company-stated):** Open-source, MIT-licensed tool to evaluate VLAs and LLMs on real robots, with simulation support and full trace logging.
- **Y Combinator batch (company-stated):** Summer 2026

- **Slug:** robocurve
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2026
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 10000000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Jay Chooi](/people/jay-chooi.md) Founder and CEO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (2)

- [Jay Chooi](/people/jay-chooi.md) (cofounder)
- [Aris Zhu](/people/aris-zhu.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Robocurve?

Robocurve is a San Francisco Public Benefit Corporation that runs independent real-world benchmarks of how well AI models and robots perform physical tasks. It also builds Inspect Robots, an open-source evaluation framework.

### What does Robocurve make?

Robocurve has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Robocurve builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

### Is Robocurve publicly traded?

No. Robocurve is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Robocurve?

Robocurve is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $10M in disclosed funding.

### Where is Robocurve headquartered?

Robocurve is headquartered in [San Francisco, California, USA](/locations/san-francisco-california-usa-2.md).

### How much funding has Robocurve raised?

Robocurve has raised approximately $10M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Who owns Robocurve?

Robocurve is privately held and venture-backed ($10M raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Robocurve a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Robocurve ranks in roughly the top 13% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Robocurve founded?

Robocurve was founded in 2026.


## Sources (9)

1. **Robocurve: Real-world evaluations of physical AI** · https://robocurve.org/
2. **Robocurve: Evals for robots** · https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/robocurve
3. **Launch YC: Robocurve: Real-World Evaluations of AI and Robots** · https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpY-robocurve-real-world-evaluations-of-ai-and-robots
4. **Robocurve raises $10M to independently evaluate frontier AI in the physical world** · https://robocurve.org/blog/seed-raise/ · 2026-09-14
5. **All Robocurve runs** · https://robocurve.org/all-runs/
6. **Opus 5.5 on RoboDojo-RC Tier 1: higher scores at lower cost** · https://robocurve.org/opus-5-5-robodojo-rc-tier-1/
7. **The cost for frontier LLMs to complete a robot subtask halved every 3 weeks** · https://x.com/robocurve/status/2110048627121156216 · 2026-10-13
8. **Flying Tesla Car, Robot Brains Halving in Cost Every 3 Weeks, and Why Incentives Decide AI Alignment | #303** · https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flying-tesla-car-robot-brains-halving-in-cost-every/id1648228034?i=1000796835453 · 2026-10-17
9. **Peter Diamandis says robot AI costs are halving every three weeks** · https://heardin.ai/articles/peter-diamandis-says-robot-ai-costs-are-halving-every-three-weeks · 2026-10-17

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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