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Darwin Robotics develops general-purpose humanoid robot technicians designed to assemble, commission, and maintain physical infrastructure inside AI data centers. The robots are intended to perform tasks such as cable manipulation, server installation, hardware commissioning, and ongoing maintenance and repair, addressing a shortage of skilled technicians as data center construction accelerates.
The company's robots are trained using human demonstrations rather than explicit programming, with the aim of progressively reducing human supervision as reliability improves through real-world deployment. Darwin has targeted initial supervised deployments in live data center facilities for early 2027.
Darwin Robotics was founded in 2025 by brothers Sergio Charles (CEO), a former AI and robotics researcher at Stanford, Google X, and NVIDIA, and Luigi Charles (CTO), who previously founded fintech startup Sphere. The company is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch and raised a $3.6 million pre-seed round in November 2026 led by Link Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Rebel Fund, Globivest, and Script Capital.