Feather Robotics

Feather Robotics is an East Palo Alto startup founded in 2025 by CEO Hoa Mai (who previously founded Kind Humanoid, acquired by 1X) and Parsa Bakhtiari (a former Tesla Model 3 engineer). Rather than build body and AI 'brain' together like Tesla or Figure, Feather sells only the hardware — a $29,990 wheeled, two-armed mobile manipulator with an open SDK — and lets customers bring their own compute (NVIDIA Jetson) and AI model (NVIDIA, Skild, Physical Intelligence), pitching itself as the 'Android of robotics.' Backed by a $7.6M pre-seed led by Gradient Ventures, it built its first prototype in two months, shipped its first order within nine, and has passed $1M in revenue with units working in manufacturing and food service.