HABIT (Founding)

Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
May 21, 2025
Vertical
Industrials,Manufacturing and Robotics
Funding URL
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Company Info
Founding Year
2025
Company Description
HABIT is deploying robotic services to your neighborhood. No need to buy a $30,000 humanoid for $300/week worth of labor. No maintenance, fleet management, or wasted time customizing robots for your use case. Our global locations will support your stores, hotels, homes, and cars with on-demand robotic services that are cheaper, better, and equipped for the job. HABIT is establishing our physical presence with the first-ever robotic car detail: orangedetail. A hand wash or detail is still the only way to clean your car without paint damage. That’s why Americans will spend $4.2B on details in 2025. orangedetail combines the speed and convenience of a tunnel wash with the high-margin pricing ($50-$3,000+) and meticulous care of a professional auto detailer. HABIT turns general intelligence into specialized robotic expertise. Our multi-stage training framework distills knowledge from large-scale robotic foundation models into efficient student architectures and applies targeted fine-tuning with supervised methods on real-world data and reinforcement learning in simulation. The result: consumer-ready robotic experts, precisely optimized for any vertical with minimal cost, complexity, or overhead.
Market
Industrials
Location
El Segundo, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator

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