Deepayan Chakraborty
14 posts
Deepayan Chakraborty
@peepayan10
uiuc mech-e ai & robotics enthusiast building Novonus for next gen industrial automation
شامل ہوئے Ocak 2026
224 فالونگ12 فالوورز
@JackFratto @Tancrededib but robots are. My idea is robot agnostic. this way human intent gets transferred to not just humanoids but robot arms and grippers asw. Labor shortage is real in high precision and skilled manufacturing. we r tryna close that gap.
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@peepayan10 @Tancrededib Why not just sell the data to prosthetics companies? I don't think humanoid robots are the future of industrial automation
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@sridharfyi absolutely! would love to chat with you about it, check your DMs!
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@peepayan10 capturing intent before action could become the missing layer between simulation and deployment.
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tryna build smth beyond the capabilities of my home garage - a new way to train industrial grade robots using emg signals from ur muscles. instead of bulky teleoperation systems, im minimizing it to a few sensors and a whole pipeline ready to deploy robots at an unprecedented efficient
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@ Hardware Engineers
If you're spending the summer building at home in a garage
I'm inviting you to build here instead
Send us a pic of your prototype, we'll send a link
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Meeting up in the US next week 🧡
- June 2nd, Palo Alto
- June 4th, SF
- June 6th, Austin
We'd love to meet you in person and gather folks who want to chat about humanoids & AI. Coffee on us!
Grab a spot on Luma. luma.com/user/menlo_res…
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@hthieblot Sent a DM! Building the new gen of training robotics for industrial automation.
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I'm investing up to 250k first checks in teams building:
- robotics, drones, space
- Models, vertical AI
- manufacturing, logistics
- Stablecoins
DMs are always open. Tell me what you're building!
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@altantutar Agreed. The defensibility gap isn’t dataset size, it’s signal type. Egocentric video captures where the body went. Capturing pre-contact muscle signals gives you richer, faster, sim-to-real-grounded training data. None of it scrapeable from video. That’s what we’re building.
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The most crowded pitch in robotics right now"we're building the largest egocentric dataset."
This is also potentially the least defensible one too.
I understand it's the easiest vertical to get into, but without a unique insight, I see tons of companies failing in this vertical.
And the unique insight usually comes from having actual worked & spent time in robotics, which a lot of founders lack.
altan tutar@altantutar
If I were starting a robotics company in 2026, I wouldn't build another humanoid. Here are the 7 wedges I'd explore instead: 1/ Actuators: China runs ~90% of magnet manufacturing and has a monopoly. Every humanoid needs ~40 motors. This will be the hardest robotics bottleneck of the decade. 2/ Ocean robotics: Saronic just raised $1.75B at a $9.25B valuation. Defense is the main buyer, but there are a lot of commercial buyers that people ignore. 3/ Space robotics: Launch costs are going to fall exponentially in the next decade. Orbit is going to become a labor market, and robots will do the work, not humans. 4/ System integrators: There's a lot of robots being built, but there is no one to go deploy them. 5/ Specialized VLAs: Actor Labs fine-tuned π0.5 on a real excavator. You could see that apply to different domains. 6/ Industrial inspection: Boring at first site, but probably one of the most overlook category. Buyers are big spenders, like oil and gas companies. 7/ Sim-to-real for unmanned missions: Almost all sim environments are created for ground & air physics. What if you build an ocean simulator? What would you add?
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@lukas_m_ziegler Teaching robots to feel by capturing what the human body does 200 milliseconds before contact.
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Deepayan Chakraborty ری ٹویٹ کیا
I bet few people there know it, but YC wouldn't exist without UIUC. My father went there from England on a Fullbright, and came back determined to move to America.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
Y Combinator partner and UIUC alum @koomen is visiting UIUC later this month! If you're a student who has been thinking about starting a startup, or are in the very earliest stages of building one, we hope to meet you there. Learn more at events.ycombinator.com/YC-UIUC-1-29
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