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Jash Mota

Jash Mota

CEO of Flywheel AI, YC S25 robotics engineer

San Francisco Bay Area, California
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Joined August 2025
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Jash Mota is a highly driven entrepreneur and robotics engineer with a strong focus on building and scaling innovative robotics solutions. He co-founded Flywheel AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup aiming to revolutionize the construction industry with autonomous excavators, and previously co-founded Centauri Robotics, which developed personal floor-cleaning robots. His entrepreneurial journey began early, with him programming robots at the age of 12 and later founding Ondigo.in, which provided robotic food kiosks, even selling robots to organizations like ISRO and Accenture. ycombinator+5
As a prolific writer and thought leader in robotics, Jash Mota shares his insights on product development, entrepreneurship, and technical topics through his personal blog. His writings cover a range of subjects from launching robots fast with semi-autonomous MVPs, iterative execution in product development, to advice for college students and technical guides on FEA analysis and ROS packages like 'RIDE'. He actively contributes to the robotics community, demonstrating a commitment to knowledge sharing and advancing the field. jashmota+4

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Launching robots fast with semi-autonomous MVPs

January 1, 2023

A blog post discussing an approach to increase the chances of success for robotics startups by launching fast with semi-autonomous MVPs.

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What I learnt from the founders of Zepto

September 1, 2022

A blog post reflecting on learnings from the founders of Zepto, emphasizing the importance of speed.

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Iterative execution: The path to steady product dev

April 1, 2022

A blog post on maintaining cadence in product development and avoiding feeling lost.

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Advice I wish someone gave me before I joined college

June 1, 2021

A blog post offering advice on choosing a career and leveraging college as a virtual environment for challenges and painless failure.

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How to: FEA analysis on FDM 3D printed parts

May 1, 2021

A process guide for performing FEA (Finite Element Analysis) on FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) 3D printed parts, tested with experiments.

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Template for making pure HTML+CSS websites that score 100 in Google Page Insights

May 1, 2021

A template and method for creating minimal, clutter-free HTML+CSS websites with high Google Page Insights scores.

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NVIDIA Jetson Nano Parts/Components List

September 1, 2020

A list of components needed to get started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano.

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ROSCon Blog 2022

A blog post about Jash Mota's experience at ROSCon in Kyoto, Japan, where he was sponsored by Open Robotics.

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Hobbies

Jash Mota enjoys programming, football, reading books, listening to music, and watching movies. wordpress