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Waddle Labs

www.waddlelabs.com

Waddle Labs is an AI robotics startup building autonomous coding agents for robots — 'Claude Code for robots.' Connect their API to a robot, describe a task in…

Track Waddle Labs
Founded
2024
HQ
USA
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Waddle Labs: $500,000 raised. 1 source back the record.

Funding

$500,000

Overview

Waddle Labs is an AI robotics startup building autonomous coding agents for robots — 'Claude Code for robots.' Connect their API to a robot, describe a task in plain English, and Waddle's agents create a working robot policy. Agent looks through cameras, breaks task into stages, writes code, calls specialist models, runs the robot, judges rollouts, diagnoses failures, and iterates.

Can produce useful baseline policy within hours. Founded by Vincent Yiding Song and Hanming (DozenDucc) — Harvard roommates who met at MIT Research Science Institute. Replicated viral demos from Physical Intelligence and Figure from just text prompts.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Valuation of record

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$2M (reported, approximate)as of Jun 2026

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Key facts

Product

AI coding agent for robots — 'Claude Code for robots.' Plain English → working robot policy

How it works

Agent views cameras, breaks task into stages, writes code, runs robot, judges rollouts, diagnoses failures, iterates

Speed

Useful baseline policy within hours for new tasks

Emergent behavior

Created parameterized grasping skill → adapted to fold shirt and towel

Demo replication

Replicated Physical Intelligence and Figure viral demos from text prompts via robot self-play

Founder 1

Vincent Yiding Song (@yiding_song) — multimodal models for astrophysics, meta-learning at Harvard Kempner Institute

Founder 2

Hanming (@DozenDucc) — topology research at MIT math, proved a conjecture, Regeneron top-five paper prize

Origin

Met at MIT Research Science Institute in high school, Harvard roommates

Contact

founders@waddlelabs.ai

Early access

Available at waddlelabs.ai

Data & sources

Web sources

1

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Relationships

YY CombinatorInvestor

Claims ledger

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  • OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-07-27
    “Waddle Labs launches as 'Claude Code for robots' — AI coding agents that create working robot policies from plain English text prompts. Agent views cameras, writes code, runs robot, judges rollouts, diagnoses failures, and iterates. Replicated Physical Intelligence and Figure viral demos. Baseline policy within hours.”
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Current leadership (2)

Founders (2)

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Waddle Labs.

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Recent coverage

Waddle Labs in third-party press

Introducing Waddle Labs: Claude Code for robots

Jul 27, 2026

Waddle Labs launches AI agents that write control code for robots

Jul 27, 2026