YC Spring 2026 (P26) company

shotwell.ai

The Observability Layer for Robotics

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About shotwell.ai

Robotics companies send Shotwell their video data and we detect failures. We do this for both their training data and for their deployments. We've developed models that can automatically produce these annotations with near-instant turnaround time.

Public traction evidence

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    Today, we are releasing over 415 hrs of annotations on top of the expansive ABC 130K data set from @xdof.

    Today, we are releasing over 415 hrs of annotations on top of the expansive ABC 130K data set from @xdof. We took 5 tasks and ran them through the Shotwell engine, and here are the results: https://t.co/5zVQ0BAVH5

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    I left @huggingface a few months ago, and working there was a blast! Learned so much from everyone, especially the @Gradio team who were the smartest people i’ve ever worked with❤️ Will share soon what I’m working on now! pic is missing @abidlabs and @_akhaliq and so am I 😔

    I left @huggingface a few months ago, and working there was a blast! Learned so much from everyone, especially the @Gradio team who were the smartest people i’ve ever worked with❤️ Will share soon what I’m working on now! pic is missing @abidlabs and @_akhaliq and so am I 😔

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    Shotwell works with robotics companies scaling their robotics data operations by providing annotations and quality checks.

    Shotwell works with robotics companies scaling their robotics data operations by providing annotations and quality checks. It's been the biggest unlock for our customers, enabling them to make the most of their data

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    One of the biggest learnings from @ShotwellSt is that defining what good quality looks like is extremely difficult and vastly inconsistent.

    One of the biggest learnings from @ShotwellSt is that defining what good quality looks like is extremely difficult and vastly inconsistent. It really takes a comprehensive cross industry view + going very deep to understand every customers use case

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    my wife’s gotta be the biggest ambassador for this culture and she’s not even unemployed

    my wife’s gotta be the biggest ambassador for this culture and she’s not even unemployed

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    Automated temporal segmentation, dense descriptions of the segments, and scene descriptions of the data, with a bar for quality only humans can hit.

    Automated temporal segmentation, dense descriptions of the segments, and scene descriptions of the data, with a bar for quality only humans can hit. Play around here: https://t.co/WYMhkiBkdE

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    13,692 episodes with @ShotwellSt labels just open-sourced! Sub-second accuracy on boundaries!

    13,692 episodes with @ShotwellSt labels just open-sourced! Sub-second accuracy on boundaries!

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    https://x.com/si3luwa/status/2085111190897013086

    https://x.com/si3luwa/status/2085111190897013086