Pave Robotics builds robots that seal cracks in asphalt, helping paving companies save time and money. Our robots work 24/7 and deliver higher-quality results than humans.
Pave Robotics is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Robots that repair roads. The founders listed are Josh Kelly (Founder/CEO), Mason Landon Smith (Founder/CPO) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 4, 2025).
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Pave Robotics builds robots that seal cracks in asphalt, helping paving companies save time and money. Our robots work 24/7 and deliver higher-quality results than humans.
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Autonomous asphalt crack sealing for highways, municipalities and parking lots. Faster, safer, and a fraction of the lifecycle cost. Backed by Y Combinator.
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Josh Kelly
Founder/CEO
CEO at Pave Robotics. Former Mechatronics Engineer at Zipline and Head of Engineering for Mark Rober. Designed and built autonomous porch pirate traps called glitterbombs, and a robot that set up 100,000+ dominoes in 24 hours.
Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Mason Landon Smith
Founder/CPO
CPO at Pave Robotics. Former Head of Product at CrunchLabs where I hired and led a team of 12 product designers. BFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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