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US-Made Parts for Robots

Winter 2026Founded 20251 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Robotics Component SupplyTransactionalRobotics manufacturersLow competition
Moat
Domestic manufacturing, plug-and-play component design, and early customer lock-in.
Key risk
Overseas competitors have cost advantages; scaling manufacturing capex is capital-intensive.
Why now
US robotics acceleration and reshoring incentives drive demand for onshore component supply.
Competitors
Emerging space, international component suppliers

About

HLabs is making an industrial supply chain for building robots in the USA including electronics and actuators, with a focus on in-house manufacturing. Robotics is going to be one of the largest industries the world has ever seen. Teams have to buy what they can from overseas and then build everything else in house just to get something to move. HLabs is producing a plug and play set of robotic primitives to accelerate the early development and then working with larger scale production robots for bespoke designs. Early customers span across household robotics, humanoids, robot arms, quadrupeds, and defense. Hlabs is founded by Paul, a second time YC founder who also participated in the W21 batch with Mystic. He ran Mystic as CEO for 6 years.

Founders ยท 1

Paul Hetherington
Paul HetheringtonFounder

Founder and CEO of Hlabs (W26), Prev Founder and CEO of Mystic (W21).

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator ยท Mar 2026
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An ecosystem of US-made plug and play parts to build robots

HLabs offers a plug-and-play ecosystem of US-made robotics hardware, including RB1 main board (Nvidia Jetson-powered), WM1 wireless module, M1 pancake motor, ACB3 FOC board, and A1/A1m actuators, designed to simplify robot electronics and reduce integration time for startups building medium-to-large robots. The launch announces a preorder sale with electronics shipping this summer and M1 in 1โ€“2 months.

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