Robotics companies often have to deal with a simple but confounding problem: Robots produce a lot of data. Sydney, Australia-based Alloy thinks it can help with that issue: The startup is building data infrastructure for robotics companies to help them process and organize all the data their robots collect from various sources, including sensors and cameras. In 2024, he decided the time was right to launch a robotics company of his own. Many robotics companies are either retrofitting existing data management tools that aren’t designed for the multimodal data robots produce, or are attempting to build their own internal data management tools. “It’s never been a better time to build a robotics company,” Harris said.