Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence and building data infrastructure for physical AI. The company operates with a lean, deeply technical team of over 100 full-time members, supported by a global network of more than 100,000 contributors across 30+ countries. It is a Y Combinator company (W26 batch).
The company's work spans several technical domains, including 3D perception, SLAM, hand-pose modeling, and custom hardware design. It develops and manufactures specialized collection rigs, gloves, and wrist cameras to capture diverse human activities. Its custom models in 3D perception, annotation, SLAM, and hand-pose are reported to achieve state-of-the-art performance.
Human Archive's datasets and infrastructure are designed to serve as foundational resources for advancing scientific research and automating manual labor. The company partners with over 500 industry partners and operates across verticals such as homes, hotels, restaurants, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and retail. Its manufacturing operations are based in Shenzhen.
