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

Salem Robotics equips existing mobile robots with task-specific intelligence for hazardous industrial inspections, enabling actions such as surface wiping, valve probing, and precise sensor placement while handling joint limits, collisions, and geometry constraints. Their system combines AI for semantic scene understanding with classical geometry-based planning and joint-level control to generate constrained manipulation plans in real time, avoiding the need to design new robot platforms for each application.