Y Combinator Puts Out Request for Robotics, AI Companies

Silicon Valley institution Y Combinator has released a new list of 20 types of startups it wants to join its accelerator program — calling for applications in sectors like artificial intelligence-powered robotics, space and defense technology.

Y Combinator, YC for short, updates the list periodically, depending on what kinds of startups it sees gaining traction and where it thinks there’s opportunity. This update, released in a blog post Wednesday, represents the biggest overhaul to its “requests for startups” since 2018.

“It is to give a window into our brains of the sort of startups we would love to see apply,” YC Managing Director Dalton Caldwell ...