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Human Archive (YC W26) — Physical AI data lab

Human Archive (YC W26) is building the data and deployments infrastructure for physical AI. We design hardware, deploy cameras and sensors globally, and train models that help AI better understand how humans interact with the physical world.

Human Archive is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Physical AI data lab. The founders listed are Raj Patel (Founder/CEO), Rushil Agarwal (Founder), Samay Maini (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 4, 2026).

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Human Archive

New accelerator entry · 2026-01-04 · the record

Winter 2026
batch
100
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2026-01-04
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size100
IndustryIndustrials
Sub-industryIndustrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://www.humanarchive.ai/
Founded2026
YC group partnerJared Friedman

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Human Archive (YC W26) is building the data and deployments infrastructure for physical AI. We design hardware, deploy cameras and sensors globally, and train models that help AI better understand how humans interact with the physical world. Leading frontier AI labs trust us for their video, sensor, robot deployment, image, and audio datasets. We have offices in SF, China, and India and are researchers from NYU GRAIL, UPenn GRASP, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Johns Hopkins Robotics, and national robotics champions. To get data, please reach out to raj@humanarchive.ai

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