Flywheel AI retrofits existing excavators for remote teleoperation and uses the data collected to train autonomous control systems, an approach it brands as 'Waymo for excavators.' The company addresses construction-industry challenges including operator shortages, safety hazards, and operational inefficiency by letting contractors run machines remotely while building robotics datasets for autonomy. Flywheel was co-founded by Jash Mota, who previously built remote teleoperation tools, and Mahimana Bhatt, a former ML pipeline lead at Motional. The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.