Piggy Robotics
ActiveHumanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone!
About
We build humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices. Just like the millions of cars generating data for self-driving, we need millions of humanoids generating real-world data for general-purpose robotics. Humanoid companies today can only manufacture hundreds a year because motors are expensive and slow to assemble. We use artificial muscles. Each muscle is just a tube wrapped in braided fibre, and the whole robot is powered by a single pump — which means we can mass-produce humanoids by the millions. Our design is built for that scale from day one and is cheap enough to enter billions of homes.
Founders
Richard Gong· Co-founderDropped out of medicine at Oxford to build humanoid robots for the home.
- Chenny (Qianyi) Deng· Co-founder
Founder @ Piggy Robotics (YC F25) ｜ PhD Candidate in Computer Science @ the University of Oxford ｜ Ex-Tencent AI researcher ｜ Founded the largest laser-tag arena in my city at age 13
Product launches · 2 launches
We built a mass-producible humanoid robot for less than $1000 in 2 months.
Tesla promise robots for the price of a car. We will sell ours for the price of an iPhone.
Change history · 6 recorded
- July 5, 2026
- YC partner updated08:01 PM
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