Miru

Miru is a San Francisco-based developer tools company building configuration and deployment infrastructure for robotics and IoT fleets. Its platform lets engineering teams define, version, validate and deploy application configurations to robots, with the stated goal of making an update across thousands of devices comparable to pushing a change to GitHub. The product replaces manual workflows in which engineers SSH into individual machines, edit text files and compare diffs by hand.

The platform's components include a graphical interface intended for both engineers and non-engineering operators, config schemas that enforce structure and constraints so invalid configurations are rejected before deployment, an automatic audit trail that attributes each change to an author with timestamps, diffs and context, and programmatic access through APIs, SDKs and Git integration for use in CI/CD pipelines and internal tools. An on-device component, the Miru Agent, is described as tolerating unreliable networks and reboots mid-update. Earlier launch materials also described over-the-air software deployment, device provisioning and centralized version tracking, with installation on Ubuntu devices via a single command.

Miru frames the underlying problem as configuration divergence at fleet scale: hardware upgrades add parameters, customer sites require local tuning, and feature flags evolve separately from application code, so shared config files fragment into many subtly different per-robot variants across releases. It also cites structural issues such as difficulty answering what configuration a robot ran at a given time, scattered change history, and unmanaged ad-hoc overrides. Longer term, the company describes its aim as building software infrastructure to accelerate automation of the physical world.

Founding story

The three founders met in their freshman dormitory at UT Austin and previously worked together on Clips AI. Armel Talla studied Computer Science and Mathematics and interned at Google and YouTube building internal tools and infrastructure; Vedant Nair studied Business and Computer Science and worked in software go-to-market consulting at Bain & Co. and EY-Parthenon; Benjamin Smidt holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering after two years studying Mechanical Engineering, and built AI models and video processing servers on Kubernetes at Clips AI. They founded Miru in 2024 to supply infrastructure for robotics teams, stating an interest in enabling robots to take on dull, dirty and dangerous work.

Business model

Miru sells a cloud-hosted configuration and deployment platform to robotics and IoT companies, positioned as an off-the-shelf alternative to internally built DevOps tooling. It combines a hosted web application and dashboard with an on-device agent, APIs, SDKs and Git integration, and the company emphasizes hands-on customer support as part of the offering.

Traction

The company reported a team of three at the time of its Y Combinator listing, later described as three to five people. Its launch announcement was reported to have drawn roughly 235 responses. Products in market include the deployment platform, config management, the Miru Agent, APIs, SDKs and Git integration.