Silica
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About Silica
YC company profile
Actuators for Physical AI
Silica makes the first affordable actuators that sense forces directly, so that all robots can feel the world around them.
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 1
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Hardware, Robotics, Manufacturing
- YC partner: Charlie Warren
Founders
Enrico Milletti — Founder/CEO
I'm the founder of Silica, a company that designs & manufactures intelligent robotic hardware.
Before Silica, I worked in the product design department at Apple, where I developed novel materials & mfg processes for future products, taking them from the lab to tens of millions of units sold annually.
Before Apple, I worked as the founding engineer at Artefact, where we made the world's first desktop manufacturing cell that can mold composites.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.