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Robot-use agents arrive as general models learn to move

Y Combinator explores how general-purpose models are learning to drive robots.

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Last updated: September 26, 2026 10:50 pm
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Y Combinator’s Decoded sits down with the founders of Waddle Labs and RoboCurve to unpack robot-use agents: general-purpose models that control different machines, write policies and pick up physical tasks with little robot-specific training.

The conversation runs from code-as-policies and vision-language-action models to the harnesses and evals needed to make the systems work outside the lab.

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TAGGED:AI agentsfoundation modelsrobot-use agentsroboticsstartupsY Combinator
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