GoKawiilFeather Robotics sells modular humanoid robot kits, tops $1M in revenue
Feather Robotics, founded in 2025 by Hoa Mai and Parsa Bakhtiari, has launched a modular robotic hardware system that developers can customize and run with third-party AI models. The startup, backed by a previously announced $7.6 million pre-seed round from Gradient Ventures, says it has already surpassed $1 million in revenue selling small quantities of robots for uses including restaurant cooking in Japan and cleaning science labs.
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By selling deployable hardware now rather than waiting for a fully general-purpose 'brain,' Feather is betting developers will build applications on top of its robots the way they did with early smartphones or GPUs, according to co-founder Hoa Mai. This positions the company differently from Tesla or Figure, which are pursuing integrated body-and-brain systems that remain largely undeployed, and could let Feather capture real-world use cases and revenue while the industry waits for a broader breakthrough in general robot intelligence.
- Feather Robotics has surpassed $1 million in revenue selling modular robot hardware kits.
- The startup lets developers customize hardware and run AI models from providers like Generalist, Skild, or Physical Intelligence.
- Feather previously raised a $7.6 million pre-seed round led by Gradient Ventures.
Source: techcrunch.com — Marina Temkin, 2026-09-24
Published there as: “Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers”
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