Theseus Robotics

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About Theseus Robotics

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Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders

Theseus Robotics creates the OS & Physical AI to deploys humanoids to automate menial tasks in supermarkets. During the day, our robotics pick orders for e-grocery orders. Overnight, they restocks shelves with goods from the back warehouse.

YC batch: Fall 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 7
Location: Switzerland
Country: CH
Status: Active
Industry: Industrials
Stage: Early
Tags: Hard Tech, Robotics, Retail Tech
YC partner: Kulveer Taggar

Founders

Samarth Malhotra — Founder/CEO

Founder/CEO at Theseus Robotics. Previously founded and scaled Parts World USA from sub-$100k to $3M revenue in 4 years by building global supply chains across China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia & USA. Founded Jumps Tronic (hardware manufacturing). Worked on ML at Facebook and HP. BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon; Dropped out of ETH Zürich.

Kristof Floch — Founder/CTO

Founder/CTO at Theseus Robotics, developing AI for humanoids that restock shelves and pick grocery orders. Previously VP of Technology at ETH Robotics Club, leading 120 robotics students across six teams. Researched high-performance learning-based control at ETH Zürich and SZTAKI. First-author publications in IEEE TCST and at ECC. ETH Zürich Excellence Scholar in Robotics, Systems and Control.

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Ádám Weinhardt-Kovács — Founder/CPO

Founder/CPO at Theseus Robotics. Previously robotics engineer at Flink Robotics, where he led deployment of a pick-and-place system at live sorting centers achieving 800 picks/hour matching human performance. Designed full robotic work-cells and built custom pneumatic grippers. Published ML research on vehicle dynamics at IFAC SYSID 2024. MA in Robotics from ETH Zürich.