Cortex AI

Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI

Y CombinatorFall 2025ActiveIndustrialsManufacturing and RoboticsArtificial IntelligenceReinforcement LearningRobotics

What they do

Problem

Embodied AI and robotics labs lack large-scale, diverse real-world human and robot interaction data needed to train and evaluate general-purpose robot models.

Solution

Cortex AI provides a large-scale workplace egocentric and robot trajectory dataset plus human-in-the-loop real-world rollouts and evaluations to continuously collect and improve training data.

Who it's for

Frontier AI labs and robotics companies building robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots.

Founders

Lucas Ngoo

Founder

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+).

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