Origami Robotics
San Francisco robotics startup founded 2026 in Y Combinator's W26 batch; builds direct-drive dexterous robotic hands and matching data-collection gloves.
Origami Robotics is a robotics startup headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2026 by Quanting (Daniel) Xie and Ryan Xie. The company was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch and operates as an independent five-person team focused on robot manipulation hardware and data.
Origami's core product is a high-degrees-of-freedom robotic hand built with direct-drive motors placed inside each joint rather than external transmissions, a design intended to reduce backlash and simplify force sensing and control compared with gearbox-driven hands. The company pairs the hand with a data-collection glove engineered to match its kinematics, so teleoperation data captured with the glove maps directly onto the robotic hand without sim-to-real correction. Origami deploys the hands and gloves in manufacturing and logistics settings to collect manipulation data at scale, then uses that data to train manipulation models. Amazon has used Origami's robotic hands for manipulation research.
The company's plan proceeds in three stages: selling hands to robotics research labs, deploying data-collection gloves in factories to build a manipulation dataset, and offering trained manipulation models as automation solutions to industrial customers.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Origami High-DOF Robotic Hand
High degrees-of-freedom robotic hand with in-joint motors designed for physical AI manipulation data collection.
Origami Data-Collection Glove
Teleoperation glove co-designed to match the Origami robotic hand kinematics for zero embodiment-gap data capture.
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2026
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