Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

Salem Robotics, a YC S26 startup founded by former Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers, has developed software that enables existing mobile robots to perform complex physical inspection tasks in hazardous industrial facilities like nuclear, oil, and gas plants. The software addresses a critical gap by automating manipulation-heavy procedures such as contamination surveys and leak detection that previously required significant manual intervention, using a combination of AI and classical robotics to generate precise, real-time motion plans based on actual sensor observations rather than pre-authored trajectories.