Yondu blog · Jul 2026
Recent company blog entry highlighting robot-video labeling work and broader data/robot-learning efforts.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Yondu is a Gardena-based embodied AI / robotics startup building brownfield warehouse automation for 3PL fulfillment and bin-picking. It was founded in 2023 at MIT, is YC W24-backed, and positions itself as a hardware-agnostic teleoperation-plus-autonomy platform that drops into existing warehouses without infrastructure retrofits.
Primary product
Drop-in embodied AI warehouse robotics platform for bin-picking and order fulfillment (ULTRON teleoperation, WMS orchestration, and YGM autonomy stack).
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Gardena, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Warehouse automation / embodied AI
Offices
Gardena, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Business model
B2B robotics platform
Robotics-as-a-service
Teleoperation-as-a-Service
Autonomy-as-a-Service
Software + hardware integration
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.7M
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$2.1M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Tahmid Jamal
Co-Founder and CTO
Head of Research
Teleop Lead
Mehul Kumar
Founding Researcher
Investors
Work & culture
The company emphasizes open debate ('Speak Up'), relentless learning, a flat structure, passion for robotics, an underdog mindset, grit and resilience, experimentation, and having fun while building the future of physical labor.
Compensation
Public job listings show six-figure compensation bands plus equity for technical roles (for example, Senior Robotics Engineer and Founding Robotics Researcher at $120K-$200K with 0.50%-1.60% equity), a Business Development Representative role at $100K-$150K with 0.10%-1.00% equity, and intern roles paid monthly.
Benefits
401(k) matching
Unlimited PTO
Dedicated sick-leave week
Catered meals
100% health and dental premium coverage for employees and dependents
Stock options
Equity upside
Product & market
Pricing
Public third-party coverage suggests $50,000 per robot plus $5,000 annual maintenance; the company also describes a deployment-first, platform-to-application model.
Differentiators
- —Brownfield deployment with no costly infrastructure retrofit
- —Drop-in automation for existing warehouse layouts and workflows
- —Teleoperation-first deployment with a data flywheel toward autonomy
- —Hardware-agnostic / works with off-the-shelf robots
- —Focused on 3PL warehouse bin-picking and mobile fulfillment
- —Claims up to 75% labor-cost reduction and 24/7 operation support
Technology
Linux
Docker
GitHub
Git
GitLab
Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu
GitHub Actions
Webflow
Python
Jenkins
Fusion 360
NVIDIA CUDA
OpenCV
I2C
Bash
ROS
C
Notion
HTC Vive
Customers
Shipbots
3PL warehouses
Grocery-store logistics operations
General warehouse operators
Competitors
Figure
Galbot
TARS
Amazon Robotics
Symbotic
ASRS vendors
AMR providers
Scale & contact
Latest news
Yondu · Jun 2026
Company page for Yondu's Automate 2026 presence, showing live partner demos and warehouse-automation use cases with METIS and Foundova Robotics.
Yondu blog · Jun 2026
Company blog post arguing that smaller 3PLs need robotic labor rather than warehouse consolidation.
Yondu blog · Apr 2026
Company blog post about deployment lessons and robotics operations.
LinkedIn · Apr 2025
Public post describing a pilot with ShipBots, teleoperated robots, and hiring around the deployment.
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