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.
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Embedded / Electrical Engineer
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…

Firmware Engineer
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…

Mechanical Engineer
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…

Research Engineer
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…

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…

Machine Learning Engineer
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 Engineering
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…

Industrial Designer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a robotics data lab founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley dropouts. We work alongside frontier robotics labs and foundation model research groups to collect large-scale, real-world,…