{"id":94076,"title":"Piggy Robotics: Humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices.","tagline":"Tesla promise robots for the price of a car. We will sell ours for the price of an iPhone. ","body":"In **two months**, we built a **full humanoid** prototype with 22-degree-of-freedom **dexterous hands**, powered by our own custom **artificial muscles** for **less than $1000**!\n\n[Piggy Robotics F25 Launch](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ty0fOJORnoc)\n\nCompared to electric-motor driven humanoids, ours are **softer**, **safer**, and delivers **higher strength-to-weight**. It will be **20x cheaper** enabling real-world AI training at scale.\n\n[Richard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-g-15852b22b) trained AI to optimize cancer vaccines while studying **Medicine at Oxford University**. As a teen he scored **top 3 nationally** in the UK Intermediate Maths Olympiad.\n\n[Chenny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/qianyi-deng/) trained AI to read human motion while doing her **PhD in Computer Science at Oxford University**. At the **age of 13** she built the largest laser tag centre in her city!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94076\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/2182c0f0-e665-410d-b83e-574bba525662)\n\n### Chat with us at: [founders@rigmanic.com](mailto:founders@rigmanic.com)","slug":"OTM-piggy-robotics-humanoid-robots-that-do-your-chores-at-iphone-prices","created_at":"2025-09-23T22:11:41.061Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:46:30.937Z","total_vote_count":291,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OTM-piggy-robotics-humanoid-robots-that-do-your-chores-at-iphone-prices","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=94076\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/2182c0f0-e665-410d-b83e-574bba525662","company":{"id":29763,"name":"Piggy Robotics","slug":"piggy-robotics","url":"https://piggyrobotics.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bb8bcc76da3e91c1a436eea5e5eec4075f3deb89.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Smart Home Assistants","Robotics","Home Automation"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29763"}}