Robotics

Robocurve

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Robocurve builds open-source tools and independent benchmarks to measure how well robots can do real-world jobs. Instead of relying on unverified demo videos from frontier labs, we score their models on reproducible benchmarks that anyone can trust.

Today there are no well-run, standardized robotics benchmarks. Labs evaluate in-house, and no independent group has stepped in to run continuous benchmarking as a service. The result is that no one actually knows how good anyone else is, or where the real frontier sits.

Good benchmarks require operating and maintaining physical hardware and real-world setups. Simulation only goes so far, since models that look strong in sim can show large performance gaps once deployed in the real world. Building real-world benchmarks means coordinating job-domain experts, evals engineering, and hands-on robotics all at once.

Frontier labs are targeting general-purpose robotics by 2028, yet the field of robotics evals barely exists. Whoever builds the trusted measure of robot capability becomes the reference everyone relies on. We combine backgrounds in AI evals and robotics to build and grow this field as fast as possible. We already shipped v1 of our open-source framework, Inspect Robots, and ran our first pilot scoring a frontier model on a real robot.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Telos, Robocurve PBC

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Jay Chooi

Founder/CEO

Founder and CEO of Robocurve. MA Statistics and BA CS/Math from Harvard. Jay builds evals of frontier AI and forecasts its progress. Previously Research Fellow at MATS, researcher at the UK AI Security Institute, and top contributor to Inspect Evals, the UK government's AI eval framework. Published at ACM EC, ICML, ACL, and EMNLP. Called the 2024 election correctly in all 50 states. Won a Rhodes Scholarship. Gold medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
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Founded 2026 · Source

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