Aris Zhu is Co-Founder at Robocurve, a YC-backed Public Benefit Corporation building independent open-source evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for physical AI and robotics systems.

Aris studied Computer Science and Physics at Harvard University, conducting research at Harvard's Computational Robotics Lab and publishing work in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Prior to Robocurve, Aris gained deep industry experience as an engineer at Amazon Robotics, Amazon's AGI Lab, and Yondu Robotics (YC W24), giving him a rare combination of academic research and frontier industry expertise.

Aris co-founded Robocurve alongside Jay Chooi in 2026 as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, with the company raising a $10M seed round led by Initialized Capital, with participation from Notable Capital, Decasonic, Y Combinator, and Halcyon Futures.

Within three months of incorporation, Robocurve's research reached 6M+ views, its Inspect Robots evaluation harness was downloaded 97k+ times, and researchers from 200+ institutions including 19 of the world's top 20 universities signed up to build benchmarks with the platform.