{"id":95161,"title":"Lightberry - Robots with Soul","tagline":"We’re building brains for robots - so they can talk, act, listen and feel. ","body":"![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95161\u0026key=user_uploads/187048/b726300c-0e1d-4190-87ac-44a8bc4a2ed3)\n\nGreetings dear humans – we’re building **Lightberry: the social brain for robots.**\n\nWe work with manufacturers like Unitree and Booster to make robots listen, speak, and act. You can program your robot out of the box by literally talking to it, no coding involved.\n\nRobots running Lightberry are:\n\n* emotionally intelligent\n* always on\n* fully autonomous\n\nJust like in Star Wars!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZ3pcFyfg4\n\n### **Why?**\n\nWe’ve seen robots on stage: folding laundry, serving popcorn, doing backflips… But before robots get deployed in homes, offices, and shops, they need to become good at **interacting with people**.\n\nSlapping ChatGPT realtime on it is not enough, every manufacturer tried that already. It responds to every little noise, lacks personality, and needs to be teleoperated.\n\nLightberry makes robots **contextually aware**, **customizable**, and **autonomous**.\n\n_We’ll let our robot Mini-Pi say it in its words:_\n\n[**https://youtu.be/e1gD57WY74s**](https://youtu.be/e1gD57WY74s**)\n\n### **Is it just a voice pipeline on top of a robot?**\n\nNo. Lightberry robots have agency. They **decide** when they want to speak or move. Our robots can **see the world** around them, **navigate it** without hitting obstacles, and have an internal **monologue of thoughts**.\n\n_Here’s our robot Koko’s hot-take:_\n\n[**https://youtu.be/Y7SN58Cdvs4**](https://youtu.be/Y7SN58Cdvs4**)\n\n### **What can your robots do?**\n\nRobots running Lightberry are being deployed to interact with people: homes, offices, shops, conferences, etc. Our software works on many different robots: Unitree G1, Fourier GR-2/N1, Booster T1/K1, High Torque Mini-Pi/Mini-Pi+ …\n\n_Here are a few robots we’ve deployed Lightberry on – meet Koko, Synthia, Alfred, Blake, Minnie, and Bradford:_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95161\u0026key=user_uploads/187048/60dd09f1-41ed-488c-bb73-546727f5d606)\n\n### **Ask**\n\n**We want to deploy as many robots in the real world as possible.** If you want to:\n\n* Hire a robot for a people-facing gig (conference, sales, marketing, receptionist, concierge…)\n* Integrate Lightberry into your robot (if you’re building hardware!)\n\n**Please email us at [founders@lightberry.com](mailto:founders@lightberry.com).**\n\nThanks,\n\n[**@Ali Attar**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/255747) \u0026 [**@Stephan Koenigstorfer**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/187048)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95161\u0026key=user_uploads/187048/c6837400-65bf-4cb7-a943-52615e648ae8)\n\n_Yes, it walks around me!_","slug":"Okr-lightberry-robots-with-soul","created_at":"2025-11-04T17:34:27.623Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:58:01.897Z","total_vote_count":178,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Okr-lightberry-robots-with-soul","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95161\u0026key=user_uploads/187048/b726300c-0e1d-4190-87ac-44a8bc4a2ed3","company":{"id":30987,"name":"Lightberry","slug":"lightberry","url":"https://lightberry.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d547e87dd8a95aef15364dc6867d855165863209.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Hard Tech","Hardware","Robotics","Design","Conversational AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30987"}}