Raghav Punnam is Co-Founder of Proprio Robotics (YC S26), a pioneering startup building autonomous robots for the entire AI data center lifecycle, from assembly and maintenance to decommissioning.

Raghav conducted advanced robotics research at the Harvard AI and Robotics Lab and UC Berkeley's EECS program, where he also earned his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Raghav has led cutting-edge research centered on reinforcement learning and humanoid world models, applying these capabilities to solve critical bottlenecks in physical AI infrastructure.

Backed by Y Combinator's S26 batch with $500,000 in seed funding, Proprio Robotics is tackling a $7 trillion data center buildout market where server assembly and maintenance remain heavily manual and labor-constrained.

Proprio has already demonstrated autonomous disassembly of enterprise servers, developing generalizable manipulation policies that can stand up and tear down data center racks and recover reusable components from end-of-life machines.