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The data layer for physical AI
Encord is the data layer for physical AI. We're how the world's most ambitious AI teams turn messy, multimodal data into production systems - from humanoid robots to autonomous vehicles to smart infrastructure. 300+ teams including Toyota, Skydio, and Maxar rely on Encord to curate, manage, and align the data their models actually need. $110M raised. San Francisco, New York, and London.
Encord provides an end-to-end data infrastructure platform for physical AI, enabling teams to manage, curate, annotate, and align multimodal data from sensors, video, text, and more. It supports production-grade annotation, data collection, and model alignment workflows, with customers including UiPath and others. The platform emphasizes in-field data collection, RLHF, and deployment-ready data pipelines.
Encord offers a unified platform that handles multimodal data across video, image, text, audio, LiDAR, and sensor data. It provides native annotation tools (video, LiDAR, audio, text, sensor fusion) with label lineage and quality controls, data curation with embedding-based search and model-in-the-loop curation, and data alignment features for RLHF, rubric-based evaluation, and pairwise comparisons. It supports data collection from facilities or fleets, enables model training-ready data from physical AI operations, and includes annotation services by vetted domain experts. The system is API/SDK-first, keeps data in the userβs cloud, and covers the full pipeline from collection to deployment feedback, including data services for production-grade AI.
Who itβs for: Enterprise AI teams working on physical AI applications ( robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, defense, sports AI, etc.).
Customers: UiPath
Mention of 300+ AI teams using Encord; customer spotlights and enterprise adoption
Cofounder and CEO | Encord Senior Quantitative Researcher | DRW SM Applied Physics | Harvard University MS Electrical Engineering, BS Physics | Stanford University
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AI to understand and automates the physical world

Building the AI data engine for any modality and scale