Reshaping neighborhood services with robotics.
HABIT will deploy on-demand robotic labor to you — and to restaurants, hotels, stores, and farms in your neighborhood. Our first vertical (the $45B car wash and auto detailing market) is high cost, labor intensive, and already offered in thousands of locations across America.
Active Founders
Company Launches
HABIT: Neighborhood robotics — starting with car details.
See original launch postTL;DR - HABIT is building a robotic car detail. Convenience of a tunnel wash + premium services of a human detailer.
Watch our launch video to learn more!
Team: SWE / Investment Banker + Applied Scientist
- Michael: prev. Sr. SWE at Radiant Nuclear ($150M+ raised); Investment Banker at JPM
- Harish: prev. AI/ML Research Scientist at Twitch & Amazon
- We both met at UC Berkeley freshman year
Americans spend $20B a year on car washes
- A single operator with locations in just 21 states earned $1B last year
But car details suck
- Automatic washes scratch paint and don’t offer services like ceramic coating ($1,500+)
- That’s why Americans spend $4.2B a year on manual details and hand washes
- Human detailers are slow (hour-long wait), expensive ($50+), and inconsistent
So HABIT is building the first robotic car detail
- Throughput and convenience of an automatic wash
- Results and premium price point of a human — starting with exterior details
Car detailing is our first vertical
- Small businesses across America don’t want to buy, maintain, or equip a humanoid fleet
- HABIT centers will act as your neighborhood’s humanoid fleet manager
Our ask: Car wash operators have been lining up for our system. So if you know a car wash operator (or are one), hit us up! founders@habitrobotics.com
