Human Archive
Multimodal data provider for robotics and world modeling
Company facts
- Founded
- 2026
- Employees
- 100
- Headquarters
- United States
About
We’re archiving the physical world for embodied intelligence by collecting and labeling aligned multimodal data. To build dexterous and perceptive robots that generalize robustly, we need massive amounts of real-world data across multiple modalities and environments. We have thought deeply about the fine line between biomimicry and its application to humanoid systems. Based on this research, we design and deploy custom hardware across residential and manufacturing settings. We then post-process the resulting data through internal QA, anonymization, and annotation pipelines to deliver diverse, high-fidelity datasets at scale to frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robotics companies. We believe we are at a historic inflection point, with a unique opportunity to leave a dent on humanity and reshape physical labor markets forever. That's why our team dropped out of Stanford and Berkeley and moved to Asia to collect the world’s largest annotated multimodal dataset.
Open positions

Operations Manager (YC-Backed, High-Growth Startup)
Growth measured in months, not years. Direct access to the founding team. Own a live site from day one. Human Archive builds the datasets that teach robots to work with their hands, captured from real people on factory…

Chief of Staff
About the role Human Archive (YC W26) is hiring someone to lead our end-to-end data annotation operations. You will work directly with the founder to build and manage a high-performing annotator workforce for robotics…

Operations Manager (on-site)
About Human Archive Human Archive is a data lab modeling human embodied intelligence. We're researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, NYU GRAIL, UPenn GRASP, JHU Robotics and national robotics champions, backed by Y…

Operations Manager
About the role Human Archive runs large-scale field deployments to collect egocentric robotics data. We are hiring a Field Operations Manager to own the day-to-day execution of these deployments. You will coordinate…

Operations
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand…

Head of Operations
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…