Open Actuation
<!-- hacklab:yc-profile -- YC company profile Quick-turn, purpose-built motors & actuators for all We design and manufacture high-mix drone motors and robotic actuators in LA. D…
About Open Actuation
YC company profile
Quick-turn, purpose-built motors & actuators for all
We design and manufacture high-mix drone motors and robotic actuators in LA.
DJI, Apple, and Ford don't settle for OTS components. Likewise, the teams that win the Western robotics market will build seamless machines from tightly integrated software and hardware.
Open Actuation designs motors and actuators around your robot's unique form factor and mission - then we rapidly bring them to life with proprietary software and tooling geared for high-mix machining and assembly. We've designed and built motors for top drone OEMs and can assemble thousands of motors per month at our first factory in LA.
We're doing for motion components what 3D printing has done for structural components. This enables hardware teams to build and iterate at the speed of software so they can create elegant, reliable, ROI-positive robots and win massive markets.
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Hard Tech, Robotics, Drones, Manufacturing, Electronics
- YC partner: Charlie Warren
Founders
Jon Facer — Founder/CEO
Founder at Open Actuation - electric motors and actuator mfg.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.