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Cortex AI

Cortex AI builds the world’s most diverse and large-scale real-world workplace robot & egocentric dataset — where the physical world becomes the next training and evaluation set for embodied AI. We power frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots by providing the data they need: 1️⃣ Egocentric Data — real-workplace human video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels. 2️⃣ Robot Data — trajectories collected from manipulators and humanoids in real industr

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Cortex AI builds the world’s most diverse and large-scale real-world workplace robot & egocentric dataset — where the physical world becomes the next training and evaluation set for embodied AI. We power frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots by providing the data they need: 1️⃣ Egocentric Data — real-workplace human video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels. 2️⃣ Robot Data — trajectories collected from manipulators and humanoids in real industr

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Cortex AI is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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embodied AIreal industrgeneral-purpose robotsrobotics foundation modelsRobot Data
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Companies similar to Cortex AI

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

One Robot

match 78

One Robot builds simulation environments that are realistic to see and realistic to interact with, so robotics teams can train and evaluate robot policies without being bottlenecked by robot time. Today, improving a VLA often means more real-world hours: setting up the scene, running trials, resetting, and repeating. This loop is slow, expensive, and hard to scale. For example, material handling and manufacturing assembly tasks, models need far more training and evaluation data than teams can co

shared extracted concept terms: robot; shared product terms: scale, real, robot, train; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Piggy Robotics

match 67

We build humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices. Just like the millions of cars generating data for self-driving, we need millions of humanoids generating real-world data for general-purpose robotics. Humanoid companies today can only manufacture hundreds a year because motors are expensive and slow to assemble. We use artificial muscles. Each muscle is just a tube wrapped in braided fibre, and the whole robot is powered by a single pump — which means we can mass-produce humanoids

shared extracted concept terms: real; shared product terms: real, robot, robotic, general; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Cerulion

match 56

Cerulion is an open source operating system for robots built by 2 MIT robotics PhDs. Engineers at Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute are using us to develop faster and ship more reliable robots than with ROS. With up to 1000x improvements in communications performance over state of the art, Cerulion is enabling the next generation of embodied AI.

shared extracted concepts: embodied ai; shared product terms: robot, robotic, develop, next; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Philon

match 55

Building open-source general-purpose robots capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.

shared extracted concept terms: general, purpose, robot; shared product terms: general, purpose, robot; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Liva AI

match 54

Speech models trained on internet data still lack realistic results. We solve this by collecting targeted training data for model labs. We hope to create a world where AI feels more human.

shared extracted concept terms: model; shared product terms: model, train, collect, labs; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lucky Robots

match 44

Automating real-world robotics development in virtual environments.

shared extracted concept terms: real, robotic; shared product terms: real, robotic, robot