Instance
Automated evals for robot policies
YC Summer 2026Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsData Labeling
About Instance
We’re automating robot evaluation– the loop where you wait for your robot to roll out, judge its success, and then reset the scene. We're starting with step one: a success detector that automatically tells you whether your robot actually completed its task along with detailed subtask breakdown. We're MIT computer scientists & friends since middle school, with backgrounds at NASA JPL, SpaceX, and AWS. Book a demo with founders@instancelabs.ai.
Founder
Lucy Cai
Cofounder and CTO
MIT CS + AI. Robotics research @ MIT LIS Lab; prev @ SpaceX, Amazon (AWS)