Cortex AI (YC F25) — 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.
Cortex AI is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI. The founder listed is Lucas Ngoo (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, October 9, 2025).
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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.
Lucas Ngoo
Founder/CEO
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