Weave Robotics
Category: Robotics / Embodied AI
Weave Robotics builds practical home robots that autonomously fold laundry, tidy rooms, and handle household chores, starting with Isaac 0 (stationary laundry folder) and Isaac 1 (mobile home robot). Weave Robotics was founded in 2024. The company is led by Evan Wineland. Based in San Francisco, California, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $500K. Latest round: Pre-Seed. Key investors include Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Collide Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Summit Partners, Adjacent, Daren Cotter.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $500K
Value proposition
Practical, delightful home robots that actually ship and do real household work — folding laundry, tidying rooms, making beds — with a full-stack approach including proprietary hardware, vision-language-action AI, and teleoperation assistance for edge cases.
Products and solutions
Isaac 0 — Stationary laundry-folding robot (shipping now, $7,999 or $449/month), Isaac 1 — Mobile home robot that folds laundry, picks up dirty clothes, makes beds, tidies rooms, and resets living spaces (pre-order, fall 2026 deliveries, $7,999 or $449/month)
Unique value
The only home robot company shipping real laundry-folding robots to actual homes today (Isaac 0), with a mobile successor (Isaac 1) priced at $7,999 — significantly undercutting humanoid competitors like 1X ($20K) and Figure. Vertically integrated hardware (custom actuators, end-effectors, safety systems) combined with weekly OTA AI updates and a remote teleoperation fallback for tricky tasks.
Target customer
Homeowners and families in California (initially) who want to automate tedious household chores like laundry folding, room tidying, and bed-making; also commercial laundry environments for training data collection
Industries served
Consumer home robotics, Commercial laundry services
Technology advantage
Full-stack vertically integrated robotics: custom-designed actuators, end-effectors, and linkage systems; vision-language-action (VLA) AI stack combining planners, VLAs, and VLMs; weekly over-the-air model updates; remote teleoperation assistance for edge cases with data feedback loop; proprietary laundry-folding dataset that reduced missed grasps by 42% and human interventions by 50% (per third-party report on Physical Intelligence foundation models); collapsible torso design (3ft to 5ft9in); physical camera shutters for privacy; detachable fabric panels for home integration
How they differentiate
Wheeled (not bipedal) design avoids costly leg actuators, enabling $7,999 price vs $20K+ for humanoid competitors; actually shipping real product (Isaac 0) to paying customers today rather than promising future delivery; teleoperation-assisted autonomy ensures task completion while collecting training data; full vertical integration from hardware to AI; design-first approach with fabric shells and privacy shutters for home acceptance
Main competitors
1X (NEO humanoid home robot, $20K), Figure AI (Helix VLA stack, home tasks), LG (CLOiD, Zero Labor Home ecosystem), SwitchBot (onero H1 ecosystem robot), Matic (floor-cleaning robot, $1,245)
Key partnerships
Physical Intelligence (foundation models for robotics — third-party report showed 42% reduction in missed grasps and 50% fewer human interventions using Weave's proprietary laundry data in pre-training), Y Combinator (Summer 2024 batch)
Major milestones
2024: Founded by Kaan Dogrusoz and Evan Wineland, Accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch, Raised $500K pre-seed round, 2025: Launched Isaac 0 (stationary laundry-folding robot) to real homes and businesses, Deployed 2,000+ hours run time, folding 1,000+ lbs of laundry weekly, 2026 (Feb): Launched Isaac 1 mobile home robot at $7,999 with fall 2026 delivery target
Growth metrics
2,000+ hours run in the field; 1,000+ lbs laundry folded every week (Isaac 0); 10 employees; YC S24 batch
Market positioning
Premium consumer home robotics — positioned as the practical, affordable alternative to humanoid home robots (1X NEO at $20K, Figure at $12K+) while being more capable than single-task robots (Roomba, Matic). Targets the "next task after vacuuming" thesis — laundry folding as the mass-market entry point for general-purpose home robots.
Geographic focus
United States (California first, then nationwide through 2027)
About Evan Wineland
Evan Wineland: Ex-Apple — Lead AI PM for Next-Gen Siri (Apple Intelligence), shipped on-device knowledge graphs, Communication Safety, Focus modes. Carnegie Mellon University graduate.
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Official website: https://www.weaverobotics.com
