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Enabling physical AI at scale.

Winter 2026Founded 20252 people
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Physical AI InfrastructureAPI/InfraRobotics companies, physical AI developersMedium competition
Moat
Purpose-built for physical AI systems; infrastructure and tooling differentiate from general ML platforms.
Key risk
Market definition unclear; competing against robot OS, ROS, and cloud ML platforms.
Why now
Robotics adoption accelerating; physical AI needs specialized infra; market emerging.
Competitors
ROS, cloud robotics platforms, traditional robot vendors

About

Enabling physical AI at scale.

Founders · 2

Amit Yadav
Amit YadavFounder
Meta🎓 Purdue University

Cofounder and CEO at Ishiki Labs (W26). Previously: Research Scientist, first in LlaMA team training multimodal LLMs and then in Reality Labs at Meta training video assistant for smart glasses. PhD from Purdue University with 20+ publications at top conferences like CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICASSP

Robert Xu
Robert XuFounder
Meta

Co-founder & CTO of Ishiki Labs (W26). Previously worked on multi-modal AI and Orion AR glasses at Meta and research infra at Citadel Securities.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Feb 2026
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Formerly ProactiveAI, Ishiki Labs, Fern (Formerly Ishiki Labs)

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