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Hardware and robotics

Applications from companies whose product is a physical device or a robot.

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  1. 02CruiseW14

    They got into YC by refusing to solve the hardest 10% of driving. In 2015 they abandoned the constraint themselves.

    2 Sept 2026

    Cruise applied to YC's Winter 2014 batch with a bolt-on box that deliberately solved only 90% of driving and left the rest to you.

  2. 01Cruise

    Cruise — YC Application (W14)

    28 May 2026

    Cruise applied to YC in 2014 as a $3,000 kit that bolted self-driving onto a car you already owned.

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