Intelligence Factory

Intelligence Factory is a San Francisco robotics and embodied-AI startup (Y Combinator Spring 2026) building general-purpose foundation models for robotic manipulation. Its stated mission is "Human Intelligence for Robots" — deploying bots with human-level dexterity and reasoning in the real world. The team trains models on human demonstration data captured through custom gloves that record what a person sees, does, and feels, retargets that human motion onto robot motion, and deploys the resulting models across robot platforms from dexterous hands to grippers, with early focus on warehouses, grocery stores, and data centers. The company was founded by Yash Sinha (CEO) and Jalaj Shukla (CTO), with a team drawn from ETH Zurich, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, NVIDIA, Formula 1, and Ansys. As of this profile it publishes no public API, SDK, developer documentation, or GitHub organization — it is an early-stage lead in the API Evangelist network.

Intelligence Factory is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Embodied AI, Foundation Models, and Robotic Manipulation.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyRoboticsEmbodied AIFoundation ModelsRobotic ManipulationArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningY Combinator

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

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Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Intelligence Factory
description: Intelligence Factory is a San Francisco robotics and embodied-AI startup (Y Combinator Spring 2026) building
  general-purpose foundation models for robotic manipulation. Its stated mission is "Human Intelligence for Robots" — deploying
  bots with human-level dexterity and reasoning in the real world. The team trains models on human demonstration data captured
  through custom gloves that record what a person sees, does, and feels, retargets that human motion onto robot motion, and
  deploys the resulting models across robot platforms from dexterous hands to grippers, with early focus on warehouses, grocery
  stores, and data centers. The company was founded by Yash Sinha (CEO) and Jalaj Shukla (CTO), with a team drawn from ETH
  Zurich, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, NVIDIA, Formula 1, and Ansys. As of this profile it publishes no public API,
  SDK, developer documentation, or GitHub organization — it is an early-stage lead in the API Evangelist network.
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- Yash Sinha (CEO)
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