{"id":112513,"title":"Robocurve — Real-World Evaluations of Physical AI","tagline":"Real-world evals for robots","body":"Hi, I’m [Jay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeqcho/), co-founder of [Robocurve](http://robocurve.org). We measure and reports what frontier robots can actually do in the real world.\n\nOur launch video \u003chttps://youtu.be/Cjkt2ikvsiQ\u003e\n\nFrontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots within two years, yet no one knows what today's robots are truly capable of. Demo videos of robots performing narrow, cherry-picked tasks proliferate, but there are no rigorous, continuous, standardized benchmarks for robotics.\n\nRobocurve builds benchmarks for robots and the AI models that control them, to help the world understand how far robotics has come and how fast it's moving. Our benchmarks range from playing Jenga and making a sandwich to constructing a data center.\n\nGeneral-purpose robots could arrive before the end of the decade, with far-reaching implications: accelerated data center buildouts, explosive economic growth from a fully automated economy, and intensified geopolitical competition between the US and China. Real-world evaluations from Robocurve will help clarify the timeline to general-purpose robots so that society can prepare for their arrival well ahead of time.\n\n[Jay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeqcho/) is a Rhodes Scholar and a top contributor to UK AI Security Institute's Inspect Evals. He has published papers in ICML, EMNLP, ACL, ACM EC and his research has been featured in MIT Technology Review. Previously, he spent time at AWS Bedrock, MATS, and Harvard where he completed his BA and MA with a highest honors thesis on AI and democracy.\n\nIf you build robots or AI models, reach out! We'd love to put them to the test. Learn more at [robocurve.org](http://robocurve.org).","slug":"TGj-robocurve-real-world-evaluations-of-physical-ai","created_at":"2026-08-27T20:30:00.743Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T06:11:15.454Z","total_vote_count":11,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TGj-robocurve-real-world-evaluations-of-physical-ai","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":33349,"name":"Robocurve","slug":"robocurve","url":"https://robocurve.org","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1cfdafb2f71eef92d986496e842d5218b330742b.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Hard Tech","Hardware","Robotics","Open Source"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/33349"}}