Rushil Agarwal

Rushil Agarwal is a Co-founder of Human Archive, a Y Combinator W26 startup that serves as a multimodal data provider for robotics learning. He is an alumnus of UC Berkeley's Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology (MET) program, focusing on Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and Business. Human Archive collects and labels aligned multimodal data by deploying custom hardware in residential and manufacturing environments, gathering real-world data that undergoes QA, anonymization, and annotation to provide high-fidelity datasets to frontier robotics labs and companies developing foundation models.

Human Archive is a San Francisco-based multimodal data provider for robotics learning founded in 2025 by Rushil Agarwal, Samay Maini, Shloke Patel, and Raj Patel. Part of Y Combinator W26, the company collects and labels aligned multimodal data to facilitate development of dexterous and perceptive robots. Human Archive deploys custom hardware in residential and manufacturing environments to gather real-world data, which undergoes quality assurance, anonymization, and annotation to provide high-fidelity datasets to frontier robotics labs and companies developing foundation models for robotics. Rushil Agarwal has a background in UC Berkeley's Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology (MET) program, focusing on Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and Business.