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Weave Robotics is an American robotics startup based in San Francisco that is building a personal home robot named Isaac. Founded in 2024 by two former Apple engineers, Evan Wineland and Kaan Dogrusoz, and a member of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, the company aims to put a general-purpose domestic robot into ordinary homes rather than factories or warehouses. Its early commercial product, a stationary laundry-folding machine called Isaac 0, began shipping to San Francisco Bay Area customers in February 2026. Weave's defining approach is a deliberate blend of on-device autonomy and remote human teleoperation: when the robot cannot complete a task on its own, a trained Weave operator briefly takes control, and the resulting data is fed back to improve the robot's autonomous skills over time.
Weave's home robot should not be confused with NVIDIA Isaac, which is an unrelated developer platform and simulator for building robots (it includes Isaac Sim and Isaac ROS). Weave's Isaac is a consumer hardware product for the home.
Weave Robotics was founded in 2024 by Evan Wineland and Kaan Dogrusoz, who describe themselves as best friends and roommates dating back to 2015 and their time as students at Carnegie Mellon University. Both came from Apple. Wineland was a lead AI product manager who worked on the next generation of Siri (part of Apple Intelligence) and shipped features such as Communication Safety and Focus modes. Dogrusoz was a manager in Apple's machine learning robotics research group and, earlier, a staff machine learning researcher who shipped the Double Tap gesture on the Apple Watch and worked as an embedded engineer on the iPhone. The company joined Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and is headquartered in San Francisco with a small team of roughly ten people as of early 2026.
The founders' stated thesis is that a useful home robot does not need to be a fully autonomous, perfectly capable humanoid before it can ship. By pairing limited autonomy with human "operators" who can step in remotely, Weave argues it can deliver a working product to paying customers years earlier than a pure full-autonomy approach would allow, while collecting real-world data to close the gap.
Weave is backed by Y Combinator through its Summer 2024 batch. In November 2024, the early-stage venture firm CoreNest Capital announced an investment in Weave Robotics as part of a portfolio batch that the firm said also included stakes in OpenAI and xAI; CoreNest described Weave as "reshaping personal robotics with Isaac, the world's first autonomous home assistant robot." Startup databases such as Tracxn and Crunchbase list Weave's disclosed funding as an early seed round on the order of several hundred thousand dollars, but the company has not published a detailed, audited funding figure, so the precise total should be treated as approximate.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, US |
| Accelerator | Y Combinator (Summer 2024 batch) |
| Founders | Evan Wineland, Kaan Dogrusoz |
| Disclosed investors | Y Combinator, CoreNest Capital |
| Team size | About 10 (early 2026) |
Weave's flagship concept is Isaac, a mobile home robot first announced in 2024. As described by the company and by trade press, the full Isaac is a wheeled humanoid form factor: a mobile base, a telescoping torso, two arms, and an expressive head with cameras, rather than a walking bipedal machine. The intended role is broad domestic help, what Weave calls "a second caretaker for your home," including tidying clutter, folding and putting away laundry, and monitoring the home while occupants are away. Isaac is designed to act autonomously when given a voice or text command and to fall back on a remote-operation mode for tasks it cannot yet perform on its own.
Weave opened reservations for the mobile Isaac in 2024 at a price of 1,000 US dollars to reserve, with delivery initially targeted for the fall of 2025 and a first batch of around 30 units. Through 2025 the company refined its plan and, rather than shipping the full mobile robot first, chose to ship a simpler, stationary product (Isaac 0, described below) as its first commercial release. The mobile Isaac remains on Weave's published roadmap, with the company indicating a later release and offering early Isaac 0 buyers preferred upgrade pricing.
Isaac 0 is Weave's first shipping product, announced on 11 February 2026. It is a stationary, table-mounted laundry-folding robot rather than the full mobile humanoid. Physically it is a fixed torso with two arms and a sensor head: trade coverage describes a neck with four degrees of freedom and two arms with six degrees of freedom each, plus a pair of swiveling cameras on the head. It requires a dedicated workspace of about 6 by 5 feet and a stable internet connection.
The robot's single function is folding freshly washed, unsorted laundry. Weave says it processes an average load in roughly 30 to 90 minutes. It can handle common garments such as t-shirts, shorts, hoodies, long-sleeved shirts, pants, towels, and undergarments, with the autonomy strongest on simpler items. It does not handle large blankets or bed sheets, and it cannot turn garments that are inside out back to right-side out. Weave has been explicit that Isaac 0 is an early-release product: the company has described it as a prototype-stage device and reported that its machines had collectively folded "thousands of pounds" of laundry by launch.
The central feature of Isaac 0, and of Weave's approach generally, is the combination of machine autonomy with on-demand human help. The robot runs autonomously for routine folds. When it encounters something it cannot handle, such as an unfamiliar textile or a tricky item, a remote human, whom Weave calls a specialist or operator, can "sub in" and take control for a brief correction, typically described as 5 to 10 seconds per item. These corrections are then fed back into Weave's training pipeline to improve the autonomous models, with the company saying it ships updated models on a roughly weekly cadence. In that sense Isaac 0 functions partly as a data-collection platform for the harder, fully autonomous robot Weave ultimately wants to build, an approach that situates it within the broader field of embodied AI and robot learning.
Weave has tried to address the obvious privacy concern of remote operators seeing inside customers' homes. The company says specialists can only access what is needed to complete a takeover: video feeds from the head and wrist cameras together with diagnostic information, and that no audio is collected. This teleoperation-first model is similar in spirit to the human-in-the-loop strategy that some other home and humanoid robot makers have adopted while their autonomy matures.
Isaac 0 is sold directly by Weave to customers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Weave handles installation and ongoing support. The company initially announced a one-time price of 9,999 US dollars at production and subsequently lowered the headline purchase price to 7,999 US dollars. Customers can either buy the robot outright or take a monthly subscription. A refundable reservation deposit of 250 US dollars holds an order. A two-year warranty is included with purchase.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| One-time purchase | 7,999 US dollars (originally announced at 9,999) | Includes a two-year warranty |
| Subscription | About 450 US dollars per month | Marketed to early adopters |
| Reservation deposit | 250 US dollars | Refundable |
Coverage of Isaac 0 in early 2026 was a mix of curiosity and skepticism, focused on the unusual decision to ship a stationary single-purpose robot that still needs human help. Several outlets framed the headline bluntly: an roughly 8,000-dollar machine whose only job is folding laundry, and which occasionally needs a remote person to finish the fold. Commentators noted the contrast with multi-task home robots promoted by other companies, and questioned both the price and the reliance on teleoperation. Supporters of Weave's approach argued that shipping real hardware to paying customers now, while using the collected data to improve autonomy, is a pragmatic path compared with the long timelines of fully autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. Weave is frequently discussed alongside other home and humanoid robotics ventures such as 1X Technologies, Tesla Optimus, and Sunday Robotics.