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Flywheel AI

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Waymo for excavators

Summer 2025Founded 20232 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

Flywheel AI converts any existing excavators for contractors to enable remote ops to increase safety and productivity, and use robotics context dataset to train autonomous policies.

Founders · 2

Jash Mota
Jash MotaFounder/CEO

building semi-autonomous heavy equipment

Mahimana Bhatt
Mahimana BhattFounder

Built robots before I could vote, led India’s top-ranked teams, deployed Addverb’s first projects, earned global awards, and now launching Flywheel AI to bring full autonomy to construction.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Aug 2025
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Enable remote teleoperation in excavators to increase safety and productivity

Flywheel AI enables retrofit, remote teleoperation of hydraulic excavators and uses collected operation data to train models for automation tasks (dig/dump, trenching, grading). The product targets construction sites to improve safety and productivity by allowing a single operator to manage multiple machines and sites. They announce a retrofit-ready platform with remote control and dataset collection and a workflow for autonomous-like tasks.

IndustrialsManufacturing and RoboticsDeep LearningHardwareConstruction

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