Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators
Hey HN, We're Jash and Mahimana, cofounders of Flywheel AI ( https://useflywheel.ai ). We’re building a remote teleop and autonomous stack for excavators. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCNmNm3lQGk . Interfacing with existing excavators for enabling remote teleop (or autonomy) is hard. Unlike cars which use drive-by-wire technology, most of the millions of excavators are fully hydraulic machines. The joysticks are connected to a pilot hydraulic circuit, which proportionally moves the cylinders in the main hydraulic circuit which ultimately moves the excavator joints. This means excavators mostly do not have an electronic component to control the joints. We solve this by mechanically actuating the joysticks and pedals inside the excavators. We do this with retrofits which work on any excavator model/make, enabling us to augment exis
Why it failed
Hey HN, We're Jash and Mahimana, cofounders of Flywheel AI ( https://useflywheel.ai ). We’re building a remote teleop and autonomous stack for excavators. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCNmNm3lQGk . Interfacing with existing ex
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jashmota
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews