Yondu
Winter 2024 · Active
Robots to Automate Fulfillment
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Founded: 2024
Team size: 12
About
Founders
Michael ChenFounder
Michael Chen is at a unique crossroads with a background in intelligent machines from MIT and research experience at the forefront of robotics and AI. He helped build an open source bipedal robot at MIT CSAIL. Michael is an avid entrepreneur who has always loved business (even owning a sauce brand). For fun, he builds all sorts of cool machines ranging from FPV drones to train track cleaning robots to gasoline powered snowboards.
Tahmid JamalFounder
Tahmid graduated from MIT with degrees in AI and AeroAstro. There he's worked on projects ranging from language model compression and quantization to astrodynamics simulations for a solar research proposal to NASA. He was doing his master's researching uncertainty estimation methods in deep learning before dropping out to participate in YC. In his free time, he enjoys movies, board games, and climbing the occasional tree.