The Robot Learning Company

The Robot Learning Company builds infrastructure for creating and deploying robot intelligence. The San Francisco company is a Y Combinator S25 startup focused on the software and data layer that robot developers use to train and operate learned behaviours.

Facts

Segment: Physical AI Data Infrastructure
Country: United States
Founded: 2025
Website: https://www.robot-learning.co/

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Timeline

2026-01-25 - Product Launch - TRLC-DK1 v0.3.0 adds USB3 cameras and native LeRobot support - USB3 cameras enabled three 720p60 MJPEG streams through a single USB3.1 port. Native LeRobot plugin support removed the need to maintain a custom framework fork. Mechanical and electrical revisions added carbon-fibre-reinforced joint parts, consolidated… - source: github.com
2025-09-24 - Product Launch - TRLC-DK1 v0.1.0 released as open-source robot learning kit - The v0.1.0 release provided imitation-learning support through the LeRobot framework. Published assets included CAD files for the leader and follower arms. The complete kit paired a 700-millimetre-reach, one-kilogram-payload arm with a leader arm and two… - source: github.com
2025-04-19 - Award - The Robot Learning Company joins Y Combinator Spring 2025 - The Spring 2025 cohort included the Munich-based robotics startup founded in 2025. Its platform combined low-cost stationary robot arms with imitation learning and offline reinforcement learning. The programme supported a plan to make repetitive-task… - source: nordic9.com

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Team

Jannik Grothusen - Founder

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Relations

Y Combinator - Startup Accelerator - The Robot Learning Company participated in Y Combinator Spring 2025 while developing its affordable robot-learning platform.

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