Aeroporti di Roma (LinkedIn) · Jul 2026
Aeroporti di Roma announced Azalea Robotics’ inclusion in its acceleration program and described the solution as cobots that streamline baggage loading and unloading.
Automating airport baggage handling with robots.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Azalea Robotics Corporation is a Berkeley-based Y Combinator S24 robotics startup building autonomous baggage-handling robots for airports and airlines. Its primary product is ARC 1, a mobile, fully autonomous baggage-manipulator cobot designed to lift, sort, track, and load bags in airport bagrooms.
Primary product
ARC 1 mobile autonomous baggage-manipulator cobot
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Berkeley, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
airport baggage handling robotics
Offices
2826 Eighth St, Berkeley, CA, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B enterprise robotics system sales and deployment
hardware + software platform for airport baggage handling
implementation / integration services for airport and airline customers
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2025
Latest amount
$3.5M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder, CEO
Co-Founder, COO/CFO
Antoine Foba Amon
Founding Mechanical Engineer
Founding Robotics Engineer
Prabhpreet Dhir
Founding Robotics Engineer
Work & culture
Mission-driven, hands-on engineering culture focused on creativity, critical thinking, safety, and solving real-world aviation operations problems.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job posts show salary bands such as $160K-$210K for senior robotics software roles and $100K-$140K for a chief of staff role, with salary, stock options, and benefits mentioned in postings.
Benefits
competitive salary
stock options
benefits
equal opportunity employer
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise B2B deployment model with flexible rollout and no fixed CapEx stated on the company site.
Differentiators
- —mobile units that handle both ULDs and carts
- —fully autonomous baggage manipulation
- —no additional safety infrastructure required
- —BSM interoperability and real-time bag tracking
- —24/7 operation with claimed zero lost or damaged bags
- —flexible deployment with no fixed CapEx
Technology
CATIA
CUDA
Ansible
Python
Docker
OpenCV
SolidWorks
Linux
C
computer vision
machine learning
SLAM / Cartographer
suction-based grasping
Customers
airports
airlines
airport ground operations teams
airport/transport infrastructure operators
Competitors
Journey Robotics
Agile Robots
Standard Bots
Mujin
traditional manual baggage handling and legacy baggage systems
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
~$330K estimated annual recurring revenue (2025, third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
1.7K
Latest news
Azalea Robotics · Jan 2026
Azalea introduced ARC 1, described as the world’s first fully mobile baggage manipulator cobot, with demo availability and airport rollout language.
Azalea Robotics · Sep 2025
Company recap post linking to TechCrunch coverage of its YC Demo Day appearance and reinforcing its Y Combinator S24 association.
Azalea Robotics · Apr 2025
Azalea announced a $3.5M seed round led by Zero Infinity Partners, with participation from Vantage Futures, Y Combinator, SOMA Capital, and angel investors.
TechCrunch · Sep 2024
TechCrunch’s YC Demo Day coverage highlighted Azalea Robotics as a company to watch, helping validate the company’s public launch and category positioning.
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