I interviewed, I've talked to several other robotics companies that interviewed for S18. Absolutely dumbfounded that none of them made it, some of these in the batch seem like they could never be worth $10b.
Sorry no, I'd have to dig up my notes from the interview and I'm slammed working on my startup. You don't wanna move to the west coast? You like bicycles and robots perchance?
Yeah, it is always disappointing that there aren't more startups around doing hardware. I think a large portion of that is that hardware is quite expensive to develop and requires a lot of space. From the YC perspective it doesn't really work with the 3 month rapid iteration schedule, that is barely enough time to get tooled prototypes.