Proprio Robotics
<!-- hacklab:yc-profile -- YC company profile Robots to maintain and assemble data centers Proprio Robotics is building state-of-the-art physical intelligence to automate the en…
About Proprio Robotics
YC company profile
Robots to maintain and assemble data centers
Proprio Robotics is building state-of-the-art physical intelligence to automate the entire data center lifecycle—from buildout to maintenance to decommissioning. There are currently 400,000 unstaffed data center technicians positions in the United States alone, which means the massive compute needs of AI are being bottlenecked by labor constraints. Proprio is solving this by building robots that do it instead, and is deploying data center maintenance robots starting Q1 2027.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 1
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Robotics, AI
- YC partner: Ankit Gupta
Founders
Anirudh Pai — Founder/CEO
Founder, CEO of Proprio
EECS M.S @ U.C Berkeley BAIR
Computer Vision & Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.