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Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied 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 industry settings. 3️⃣ Human-in-the-Loop Rollouts & Evals — real-world deployments with remote operators who recover robots when they fail, capturing data that feeds back into training and continuously improves models. Additionally, through the Cortex Marketplace, workplaces get paid to host data-collection and evaluation sessions, while labs access the in-the-wild data that truly matters. This draws on Lucas’s previous experience as co-founder of Carousell, a C2C marketplace that scaled to a $1B+ valuation.
Cortex AI provides real-world data for embodied AI, focusing on diverse egocentric and robot data from real workplaces to fine-tune foundation models and support human-in-the-loop evaluation.
They offer: 1) egocentric data for robotics with frames annotated for hand/body pose, depth, and subtasks to make egocentric video usable for robotics; 2) robot trajectories collected in real workplaces via a partner network to fine-tune base models; 3) human-in-the-loop rollouts and evaluations with oversight to capture recovery data and create a continuous data flywheel from real deployments.
Who it’s for: Frontier labs, robotics and embodied AI researchers, industrial partners needing real-world robot and human interaction data, and organizations building or fine-tuning embodied AI systems.
Backed by Y Combinator
Founder and CEO of Cortex AI. We're building the world's most diverse real-world, real-workplace, and industry-scale egocentric + robot dataset. Prior to Cortex AI, Lucas was the co-founder and CTO of Carousell (valued at $1B+).
Turning the real physical world into the next dataset for general-purpose robotics.
Cortex AI announces a real-world egocentric robotics dataset platform and marketplace. It collects real-world egocentric and robot data from workplaces to pretrain world and robotics foundation models, with real-world policy rollouts and human-in-the-loop recovery data, and pays real workplaces to host data collection sessions via the Cortex Marketplace.
Multimodal data provider for robotics and world modeling
Industrial data layer for robotics training
