Fern

Enabling physical AI at scale.

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2BInfrastructureRoboticsInfrastructure

What they do

Problem

Scaling deployment of physical AI systems in real-world environments is difficult due to complexity and operational constraints.

Solution

Fern provides a platform or technology stack to enable physical AI deployment and scaling.

Who it's for

Organizations building and deploying physical AI systems such as robotics and autonomous devices.

Founders

Amit Yadav

Founder

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