Somatic
End-market autonomous service robotics: vertically integrated robot hardware (mobile manipulator), autonomy stack (LiDAR/camera navigation, door opening, elevator riding, autonomous dock refill), and fleet/remote-monitoring operations delivered as a monthly subscription. Sits at the pa-10 'autonomy software / fleet platforms / end markets' layer, pulling on pa-7 perception, pa-8 actuation and pa-9 sim-to-real (VR/teleop task programming) beneath it. · United States
Somatic builds the BCR, an autonomous mobile-manipulator robot that cleans commercial restrooms - toilets, urinals, floors and trash - sold as a flat monthly robots-as-a-service subscription to building owners.
Robots-as-a-service for commercial restroom cleaning, priced per operating window with deployment and onboarding included: $1,500/month for 8 h/day weekdays (~$8.63/h), $3,000/month for 16 h/day weekdays (~$8.63/h), $4,500/month for 16 h/day seven days (~$8.63/h weekday, $10.89/h weekend). The robot performs a touchless three-step clean (spray chemical, rinse with fresh water, wet-vac dry), plus toilet/urinal seat handling and flushing, trash pickup, floor scrubbing at 2,400 sq ft/h, autonomous chemical/water refill and self-charging, door opening and elevator navigation; Somatic handles building mapping, VR/teleop task programming and remote monitoring with real-time alerts.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Autonomy Software, Fleet Platforms & End Markets (L10) / End-market autonomous service robotics: vertically integrated robot hardware (mobile manipulator), autonomy stack (LiDAR/camera navigation, door opening, elevator riding, autonomous dock refill), and fleet/remote-monitoring operations delivered as a monthly subscription. Sits at the pa-10 'autonomy software / fleet platforms / end markets' layer, pulling on pa-7 perception, pa-8 actuation and pa-9 sim-to-real (VR/teleop task programming) beneath it.
Evidence boundary
Original analysis and independent corroboration remain under development. Commercial scale and durable technical advantage remain under review.
What makes it defensible
Commercial restroom cleaning is the highest-churn, hardest-to-staff job in facility services: dirty, dull, physically demanding, with high turnover and rising wage floors. Unlike floor-scrubbing AMRs, restrooms require manipulation (fixtures, seats, doors, tools), which is why the category stayed manual. Somatic's claim is that ADA-standardized, bolted-down restroom geometry plus per-building digital mapping and VR task programming make manipulation tractable, letting a single unit cover a route for 8-16 h/day at roughly $8.63/h versus loaded janitorial labor, with remote human oversight only for exceptions.
Position in the stack: Full-stack service provider at the end of the chain: designs and assembles the robot (structures, arm, tool changer, tanks, battery), writes the autonomy/mapping/task-programming stack, runs deployment (sensor kit shipped, building walked and 3D-captured, routines authored in VR simulation, on-site calibration in 2-4 weeks), and operates the fleet remotely. It sells outcomes (clean restrooms per month) directly to building owners/facility managers rather than selling hardware to cleaning contractors, so it captures the labor line item rather than a hardware margin.
Who buys it
Founding team
Michael Levy — Co-founder & CEO
Eugene (Ievgenii) Zasoba — Co-founder & CTO
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- $13.7M Series A-II (Jan 2025)
Investors: Y Combinator (W20), SOSV, HAX, C2 Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, AG Collective Capital, Cathexis Ventures, Gaingels
Mapped funds and investors
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Reported holdings as-of
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Disclosed investment history
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Evidence & media
Timeline
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Product
US patent granted for the bathroom cleaning robot
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Financing
$13.7M Series A-II
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Media
SOMATIC UPDATE: September 2024 video
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Financing
Series A equity round filed on Form D
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partnership
Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch
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Product
Public debut of the restroom cleaning robot at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
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