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

Head of Engineering 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…

Head of Talent Acquisition
We’re looking for a Head of Talent Acquisition to own hiring and core people operations at Human Archive. This is not a role for someone who wants to build slow recruiting systems. We need someone who can move…

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…

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…

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…