Piggy Robotics - Humanoid robots
We built a mass-producible humanoid robot for less than $1000 in 2 months.
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YC · launched Nov 21, 2025 · 753 upvotes (top 3%) · 2 views
Niche: robotics software and platforms · 195 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2B
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Smart Home Assistants
- Robotics
- AI
- Home Automation
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Could you build this?
No Designing and manufacturing physical bipedal/humanoid robotics hardware under $1000 requires advanced mechanical, electrical, and control systems engineering.
What it would actually take: Building a functional humanoid robot requires custom low-cost actuator design (cycloidal or planetary gearboxes), motor controllers, PCB design, real-time embedded systems (RTOS), and balance/locomotion control algorithms (reinforcement learning for sim-to-real transfer or whole-body control). This demands a multi-disciplinary team of roboticists, embedded firmware engineers, and hardware supply chain specialists.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 242 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 243 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 18 days after the earliest competitor.
- Nori: The $1688 humanoid robot · yc · 2026-08-20 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than $300 (well almost) · hn · 2026-04-06 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- We sent a humanoid robot to clean a stranger's apartment in SF · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- YOR · hn · 2026-02-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Mr_Robot · github · 2026-09-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HLabs: US-made robot actuators and electronics · yc · 2026-03-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HLabs: US-made robot actuators and electronics · yc · 2026-03-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Theseus Robotics: Humanoids for the Retail Aisle · yc · 2026-11-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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