Samarth Malhotra
Co-founder & CEO
An entrepreneur with experience building a US e-commerce business and international hardware supply chains. Computer science background at Carnegie Mellon.
PORTFOLIO / 01
Theseus Robotics.
Physical AI.
Meet the
supermarket.
Building humanoid robots to restock shelves, rotate stock and pick grocery orders.
Y Combinator · Fall 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- LOCATION
- Zürich, Switzerland
- FOUNDED
- 2026
- FIRST BACKED
- 2026
- FOCUS
- Robotics & physical AI
WHAT THEY’RE BUILDING
Intelligence that
gets to work.
Retail runs on physical work. Theseus is building the intelligence to help robots do it.
The company develops software and physical AI for humanoids in supermarkets, with a focus on the everyday tasks between the stockroom and the shelf.
01
Shelf restocking
Moving goods from the backroom onto the shelves.
02
Stock rotation
Keeping products in the right order on the shelf.
03
Order picking
Picking groceries for online customer orders.
WHY WE BACKED THEM
A specific problem.
A team built to solve it.
Theseus brings together commercial experience, robot learning and hands-on deployment. That combination puts our thesis into practice: back the people who can turn physical intelligence into useful work.
ROBOTICS CAPITALTHE FOUNDERS
Operator. Engineer. Builder.
Kristóf Floch
Co-founder & CTO
Former VP of Technology at ETH Robotics Club. A robotics researcher with experience in learning-based control at ETH Zürich and SZTAKI.
Ádám Weinhardt-Kovács
Co-founder & CPO
Previously a robotics engineer at Flink Robotics, working on live pick-and-place deployments, robotic work cells and custom grippers. Robotics graduate of ETH Zürich.
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