RoboCred started inside one of China's top robotics companies, where compliance kept breaking launch plans.
Pranav and Shreyas · YC Startup School India · 2026
We're two SUTD engineers who got into hardware through robotics. We built robots through school, met inside one of China's top robotics companies, and saw firsthand that compliance was the bottleneck nobody was solving with AI.
RoboCred is the company we wished existed when we were shipping hardware.
Embedded at Deep Robotics, Hangzhou
An intrapreneurship building dynamic insurance pricing for deployed robots, from the inside.
Compliance ate every launch
Every new country meant months of manual compliance work. Humanoid robot compliance alone routinely ran over SGD 180,000.
Insurance, then data, then service
Through robotics insurance and a hardware compliance data product, to AI-native compliance services.
Reading the standards, not just talking about them
IEC 60204-1 and ISO 12100 fully mapped; ISO 26262, IS 302, ISO 13849 and more in progress. 30+ conversations with hardware teams.
Both of us got into hardware through robotics. In late 2024, we did an intrapreneurship at Deep Robotics in Hangzhou — one of China's top robotics companies. They selected our idea for dynamic insurance pricing for deployed robots and brought us in to build it from the inside.
While we were embedded there, we kept hearing the same thing from their product manager. The problem wasn't insurance. It was that every time Deep Robotics tried to deploy into a new country, regulatory compliance ate months of timeline and broke launch plans. Humanoid robot compliance alone routinely ran over SGD 180,000. All of it manual.
“That conversation reframed everything.”
That conversation reframed everything. Insurance was a downstream symptom. The actual upstream wound for hardware companies was compliance — and nobody was using AI to fix it.
Since then, we've spent the better part of a year going deep. We've fully mapped IEC 60204-1 and ISO 12100, are actively mapping ISO 26262, IS 302, ISO 13849, and others, and we read the standards rather than just talking to consultants about them. We had 30+ customer conversations with hardware teams across robotics, industrial automation, and consumer hardware. We pivoted twice — through robotics insurance, through a hardware compliance data product — and arrived at the company we are today: AI-native compliance services for hardware.