Shiraz AI

Shiraz AI builds robots for manufacturing that learn a new task from a single human demonstration. The company develops a robot foundation model that adapts in context from one video of a person doing the task, with no programming, CAD files, teach pendant or data collection campaign. It delivers the full stack working on the customer's production line: the robot hardware, the model and on site deployment. The hardware shown is a robot with four interlocking arms. The process has three steps: a person demonstrates the task once on video, the model adapts without retraining, and the robot then runs the task on the line. The vendor says its robots are already operational at customer sites. It is aimed at factories with high mix production, where lines change often and traditional automation is too rigid and expensive, and where hiring enough workers is difficult. It is a physical robotics offering delivered as a service to manufacturers rather than a software tool used from a browser or app, which sits outside the productivity category it is filed under. The company is based in San Francisco, is backed by Y Combinator in the S26 batch, and was founded by veterans of Boston Dynamics, Rethink Robotics and Amazon Robotics. The vendor does not publish prices, and prospective customers are asked to get in touch directly.