YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Navid Aghasadeghi

Founder of Shiraz AI, Robots that learn on the job

Company

Navid Aghasadeghi is listed as a founder of Shiraz AI. We deploy robots that learn new tasks from a single human demonstration in the factory. We're starting in contract manufacturing, where lines change every week and both traditional automation and today's VLAs fall over. Our founding team has 20+ years of experience in robotics. Navid was part of the core team that productized Spot at Boston Dynamics and led manipulation projects there. Before that, he was at Rethink Robotics. Mojtaba led whole-body control and manipulation efforts at Amazon Robotics and was a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.

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    Everyone in robotics is waiting for the ChatGPT moment but … missing the most important part of the ChatGPT playbook.

    Everyone in robotics is waiting for the ChatGPT moment but … missing the most important part of the ChatGPT playbook. So we left Boston Dynamics and Amazon Robotics to fix that, and start @Shiraz_AI to build robots that learn on the job. When GPT-3 was released, it couldn’t do...

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    This is the kind of data you need for reliable deployment! Bullish on this team!

    This is the kind of data you need for reliable deployment! Bullish on this team!

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    Very cool! Reminded me of what I did at Rethink Robotics back in 2017, using only force sensing and no vision https://t.co/33erALR7FE

    Very cool! Reminded me of what I did at Rethink Robotics back in 2017, using only force sensing and no vision https://t.co/33erALR7FE

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    I don’t get why our tech community is not fighting back against the FCC robotics ruling the same way we fought for open source models.

    I don’t get why our tech community is not fighting back against the FCC robotics ruling the same way we fought for open source models. It’s basically the same story playing out but for physical AI!