YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Claire Mao

Founder of Instance, Automated evals for robot policies

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Claire Mao is listed as a founder of Instance. Weโ€™re automating robot evaluationโ€“ the loop where you wait for your robot to roll out, judge its success, and then reset the scene. We're starting with step one: a success detector that automatically tells you whether your robot actually completed its task along with detailed subtask breakdown. We're MIT computer scientists & friends since middle school, with backgrounds at NASA JPL, SpaceX, and AWS. Book a demo with founders@instancelabs.ai.

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    went to our first robotics conference together @autonomousevent last week!! so great to hear from speakers + meet everyone

    went to our first robotics conference together @autonomousevent last week!! so great to hear from speakers + meet everyone

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    testing our live captioning ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ‘‹

    testing our live captioning ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ‘‹