{"id":95684,"title":"Piggy Robotics - Humanoid robots","tagline":"We built a mass-producible humanoid robot for less than $1000 in 2 months.","body":"Hello! We’re [Richard ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-g-15852b22b)and [Chenny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/qianyi-deng/), founders of Piggy Robotics. We build mass-producible humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices.\n\nBelow is why our architecture is uniquely positioned to win the humanoid race:\n\n1\\. We built a **full-size**, **mass-producible** humanoid robot in **2 months**, complete with custom muscles, valves, and pumps for **less than $1000**. For comparison, other humanoid companies with hundreds of millions in cash spent years developing their actuators before touching a full prototype. We’re the most capital-efficient humanoid company, and we’re on track to catch up with incumbents that have far more capital within one year.\n\n[Piggy Robotics F25 Launch](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ty0fOJORnoc)\n\n2\\. **Mass production** must happen before **autonomy**. Tesla collects hundreds of thousands of hours of driving data per day from cars with basically 2 DoF. A humanoid has \u0026gt;50 DoF. To collect the same amount of data, you need \u0026gt;100K humanoid robots deployed. Existing humanoid companies can only produce a few hundred units per year. Our artificial muscles are far cheaper and simpler, meaning we can manufacture millions of humanoids and reach autonomy far sooner.\n\n️3. Only our humanoid at **iPhone prices** can **enter every home**. A household robot cannot be a 70kg, $20k metal beast. At that price point, adoption follows car-level economics. New cars mostly cost over $20k, and the entire world buys only around 75 million per year. But at $2k, adoption shifts into phone-level territory, where the world buys over a billion smartphones every year. Only an architecture built around cheap, simple-to-produce artificial muscles can reach phone-scale manufacturing quickly and make that future possible.\n\n**Team**\n\n[Richard ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-g-15852b22b)studied **Medicine** at **Oxford University**, built AI systems for personalized cancer vaccines, and has a deep understanding of human anatomy and biomechanicsx—knowledge that is directly relevant to designing artificial muscles and full-body actuation.\n\n[Chenny ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/qianyi-deng/)trained AI models to read human motion—the foundational step for teleoperation and future autonomy—while doing her **PhD in Computer Science** at **Oxford University**. She previously worked on AI at Tencent. Fun fact: at age 13, Chenny built the largest laser-tag centre in her city.\n\nTogether, we spent a year inside factories deploying humanoid robots in real production environments.\n\nEven though Piggy Robotics is only a few months old, we’ve already assembled a **16-engineer elite hardware \u0026 software team** from **Oxford University** and **top global robotics competitions**. This combination of deep biomechanics, AI motion understanding, and hands-on factory deployment uniquely positions us to build the **first truly mass-producible humanoid robot**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95684\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/901840c8-864a-4d85-b82b-7ecf78a9b6b0)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf our mission resonates and you want to ship humanoids with us, we’d love to connect: [founders@piggyrobotics.com](mailto:founders@piggyrobotics.com)","slug":"OtI-piggy-robotics-humanoid-robots","created_at":"2025-11-21T17:31:10.408Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:42:27.087Z","total_vote_count":750,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OtI-piggy-robotics-humanoid-robots","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95684\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/901840c8-864a-4d85-b82b-7ecf78a9b6b0","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"}}