Darwin (YC F25) — Robot technicians for AI infrastructure
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Darwin is building general-purpose humanoid robots for real-world work. Our first robot, Darwin One, will learn from real-world experience and continuously improve as AI moves from the screen into the physical world.
Darwin is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Robot technicians for AI infrastructure. The founders listed are Sergio Charles (Founder/CEO), Luigi Charles (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 7, 2025).
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Darwin is building general-purpose humanoid robots for real-world work. Our first robot, Darwin One, will learn from real-world experience and continuously improve as AI moves from the screen into the physical world. First deployments begin in early 2027.
General-purpose humanoid robots for real-world work.
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Sergio Charles
Founder/CEO
Building intelligent humanoid robots. Prev: AI R&D at Google X, NVIDIA, and Stanford AI Lab, working with Chelsea Finn on autonomous RL for robotics and Andrew Ng on computer vision. Stanford B.S. Math & CS, M.S. Stats.
Luigi Charles
Founder
Building Westworld. Previously founded a fintech payments startup, scaling volume from zero to billions. Columbia CS & Math.
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