LinkedIn · Feb 2026
Hans Kumar's post about hiring an ML manipulation/perception engineer for the small Boost Robotics team.
Robots for the inspection and maintenance of data centers
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Boost Robotics is a 2025 robotics startup building autonomous mobile-manipulation robots for inspecting and maintaining data centers, with pilot-led enterprise sales and backing from Y Combinator; public profiles also mention NVIDIA Inception. Public sources vary slightly on size and location, but the company appears to be a very small Boston/Cambridge team.
Primary product
Autonomous mobile-manipulation robots for data center inspection and maintenance
Founded
2025
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Data center robotics
Offices
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Business model
B2B enterprise robotics
pilot-led enterprise sales
hardware + software
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$625K
Latest round
Pre Seed Round · Jul 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Jul 2025 · Y Combinator
May 2025
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder CTO
Co-Founder
Founding Robotics Hardware Engineer
Work & culture
The company presents a founder-led, builder-heavy culture with very little process overhead; job copy emphasizes no legacy code, no heavy approval layers, and the chance to shape rituals and the engineering stack.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job data shows a Founding Robotics Software Engineer role at $100K-$160K base salary, plus competitive startup equity, health benefits, and relocation assistance.
Benefits
health benefits
competitive startup equity
relocation assistance
Product & market
Pricing
Quote-based enterprise pilot and contract sales
Differentiators
- —'Robot remote hands' for cable checks, reboots, and hardware swaps
- —24/7 security monitoring and operational analytics
- —Context-aware teleoperation that can evolve toward autonomy
- —Focus on data-center inspection and maintenance rather than warehouse logistics
Technology
C++
Python
machine learning
computer vision
teleoperation
autonomous mobile manipulation
LeRobot
Kalibr
Customers
data center operators
enterprise data center facilities
pilot customers for data-center robotics
Competitors
Geekplus
Robust
Hai Robotics
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
About $220K ARR (GetLatka estimate, 2025-09-14)
Estimated monthly visits
2.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Nov 2025
Hans Kumar said Boost Robotics and Hardik had moved into a new Cambridge office and were hiring deeply technical robotics/AI talent.
VCBacked · Jun 2025
Funding profile stating Boost Robotics had a $500K pre-seed round and listing Y Combinator plus named angel investors.
Y Combinator · Jun 2025
Official launch page describing Boost Robotics' autonomous mobile-manipulation robots for data-center inspection/maintenance, the founders' CMU origin story, and the company's pilot ask.
Startup Intros · Jun 2025
Third-party funding coverage stating Boost Robotics raised $500K in a seed round.
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