Nordic9 · Dec 2025
Nordic9 tracks Piggy Robotics as a YC company with about $500k of investment received and industry tags in AI/hardware/robotics.
Humanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone!
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Piggy Robotics is a humanoid robotics startup building mass-producible home robots using artificial muscles, with a stated goal of iPhone-level pricing and a full-size prototype built for under $1,000.
Primary product
Mass-producible humanoid home robots
Founded
2024
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
1-10
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Humanoid home robotics
Offices
London, United Kingdom
Southampton, United Kingdom
Business model
consumer hardware
robotics software + hardware
home automation
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
Public posts describe a fast-moving, hands-on culture: daily prototyping, rapid iteration, and a team that prioritizes speed and building over traditional veteran-heavy hiring.
Product & market
Pricing
Aspirational consumer hardware sale at iPhone-like price points (the company repeatedly frames pricing around roughly iPhone-level affordability).
Differentiators
- —Artificial-muscle architecture instead of electric motors
- —Softer and safer form factor
- —Higher strength-to-weight claims
- —Mass-production-first design
- —Prototype built in 2 months for under $1,000
- —Consumer-electronics pricing ambition
Technology
artificial muscles
valves
pumps
22-degree-of-freedom dexterous hands
embodied AI
human-motion modeling
full-stack robotics hardware
Customers
households
homeowners
dual-income families
early adopters of home robotics
Competitors
Tesla Optimus
Figure AI
1X
Sanctuary AI
Apptronik
Scale & contact
Latest news
LinkedIn · Nov 2025
Multimodal Ventures says it invested in Piggy Robotics and describes the home-robot thesis and founding story.
LinkedIn · Nov 2025
YC highlights the company’s prototype speed, artificial-muscle approach, and scale thesis.
LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Qianyi Deng posts about the YC launch and the company’s sub-$1,000 humanoid prototype claim.
Y Combinator · Sep 2025
YC launch describing Piggy Robotics’ humanoid home-robot thesis, artificial-muscle design, and iPhone-price ambition.
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