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TechCrunch — Feather, building the Android of robotics
Feather Robotics, a humanoid startup founded by Hoa Mai and Parsa Bakhtiari, is developing a modular robotic platform positioned as the "Android of robotics" with customizable hardware and software for developers. The company has raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding, achieved over $1 million in revenue, and prices its robots at $30,000, positioning itself as a uniquely competitive U.S.-based alternative to Chinese competitors.
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Summary
Feather Robotics, a humanoid startup founded by Hoa Mai and Parsa Bakhtiari, is developing a modular robotic platform positioned as the "Android of robotics" with customizable hardware and software for developers. The company has raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding, achieved over $1 million in revenue, and prices its robots at $30,000, positioning itself as a uniquely competitive U.S.-based alternative to Chinese competitors.
Tags
robotics · humanoid-robots · feather-robotics · startup · hardware-software · modular-platform · physical-ai
Key entities
Feather Robotics (organization, 0.99) · Hoa Mai (person, 0.98) · Parsa Bakhtiari (person, 0.98) · Gradient Ventures (organization, 0.97) · Darian Shirazi (person, 0.96) · Tesla (organization, 0.97) · Figure (organization, 0.95) · Unitree (organization, 0.94) · 1X (organization, 0.93) · Nvidia (organization, 0.96) · ChatGPT (technology, 0.95) · modular-humanoid-platform (concept, 0.92) · physical-AI (concept, 0.91)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 28 Sep 2026