Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. We're deploying humanoid robots in the first flexible, drop-in picking automation solution designed for 3PLs.
Yondu is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Robots to Automate Fulfillment. The founders listed are Michael Chen (Founder/CEO), Tahmid Jamal (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 1, 2024).
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Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. We're deploying humanoid robots in the first flexible, drop-in picking automation solution designed for 3PLs.
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The future of warehouse automation. Yondu is building an embodied AI platform that enables you to automate any logistics task in any warehouse with any off-the-shelf robot.
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Michael Chen
Founder/CEO
Michael Chen is at a unique crossroads with a background in intelligent machines from MIT and research experience at the forefront of robotics and AI. He helped build an open source bipedal robot at MIT CSAIL. Michael is an avid entrepreneur who has always loved business (even owning a sauce brand). For fun, he builds all sorts of cool machines ranging from FPV drones to train track cleaning robots to gasoline powered snowboards.
Tahmid Jamal
Founder/CTO
Tahmid graduated from MIT with degrees in AI and AeroAstro. There he's worked on projects ranging from language model compression and quantization to astrodynamics simulations for a solar research proposal to NASA. He was doing his master's researching uncertainty estimation methods in deep learning before dropping out to participate in YC. In his free time, he enjoys movies, board games, and climbing the occasional tree.
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