Parametric
About
About Parametric
Parametric builds Bit, a wheeled two-arm robot for repetitive physical work, and Bastion, software for monitoring robots and intervening when they need help. Its current commercial focus includes warehouse box assembly, packing, taping and folding. Based in San Francisco, the public benefit corporation combines mobile manipulation hardware with robot learning and on-site operating support.
Bastion brings task progress, robot status and remote assistance into one interface. Parametric uses customer feedback and real-world operating data to improve behaviour through reinforcement learning, while its research also examines cloth manipulation, policy evaluation and the internal features of vision-language-action models. Successive Bit prototypes have changed the lift, head and industrial design as the team works toward the next hardware generation. The company is backed by Y Combinator and names Trevor Blackwell among its backers.
Operations
Operating milestones
- Operating milestone
Parametric reports more than 3,500 cumulative hours of real-world robot operation.
Source - Operating milestone
Parametric reports 130,000 episodes of manipulation data collected from real robots.
Source - Operating metric
Parametric says 75% of robot time was autonomous in July 2026, compared with 0% in February 2026.
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Team
- Cody Swain - Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer - Co-founded Parametric and leads its adaptive industrial robotics business.
- John Newsom - Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer - Co-founded Parametric and leads its robot-learning and autonomy technology.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-11-12 - Product Launch - Parametric introduces customer-feedback reinforcement learning for mobile robots
Its hardware used a wheeled mobile base with two manipulator arms. An automated reward pipeline steered reinforcement-learning updates toward customer-defined behaviour. The founders reported work with real customers and claimed on-site adaptation with less than an hour of data.
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Context
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Context tags
- Mobile manipulation - Workflow - Bit uses a mobile base and two arms for warehouse manipulation tasks. https://www.parametric.company/
- Robot learning - Capability - Parametric improves mobile manipulation through customer-feedback reinforcement learning. https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Op7-parametric-rl-for-robotics
- Industrial manipulation AI stack - Stack Layer - Official company material supports the industrial robot manipulation ai context.
- Industrial robot development - Workflow - Official company material supports the industrial robot builder context.