Startup Spotlight: Praxis Robotics turns factory work into robot training data

Rohan Seelamsetty and his co-founders are building a data supply chain across existing businesses, with its largest access claims still unproven.

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Primary source: Y Combinator

Why it matters

Robot developers need physical-world data that cannot be scraped from the internet. Praxis is betting that access to existing workers and facilities can become defensible infrastructure, provided it can turn a claimed global network into repeatable deployments, trusted consent processes and datasets that measurably improve robot performance.

A robotic arm performs an assembly task on a factory floor, with a technician observing a screen in the background.

Rohan Seelamsetty (@ro_seelamsetty) is building Praxis Robotics around a bottleneck that money alone cannot quickly remove: physical access to the places where people assemble, clean, pack, inspect, repair and move things.…

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