LinkedIn (Cortex AI) · Jun 2026
Cortex AI said it contributed high-quality long-horizon real-world data for MolmoAct 2 and supported large-scale evaluations across multiple policies.
Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Cortex AI is a San Francisco–based robotics engineering company building large-scale real-world workplace egocentric and robot datasets for embodied AI, sold through a B2B data-collection / data-access marketplace model.
Primary product
Real-world workplace egocentric and robot datasets for embodied AI training and evaluation.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
AI Infrastructure / embodied AI data platform
Offices
5 jobs at Cortex AI
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6.5M
Latest round
Seed VC · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$6M
Nov 2025
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Head of Operations and Hardware
GTM and Partnerships Lead
Head of YAM Arms
Investors
Fast-paced, experimental, hands-on, and deeply engineering-oriented, with a strong frontier-robotics and data-operations focus.
Compensation
No public salary bands or compensation package details found.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom B2B contracts and marketplace-style pricing: workplaces are paid to host capture/evaluation sessions, while robotics labs pay for access to curated real-world data.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately US$1.9M–US$5.3M annual revenue estimate (external estimate; midpoint about US$3.3M).
Estimated monthly visits
2K
Traffic estimate as of Feb 2026
LinkedIn (Cortex AI) · Jun 2026
Cortex AI said it contributed high-quality long-horizon real-world data for MolmoAct 2 and supported large-scale evaluations across multiple policies.
Ai2 · May 2026
Ai2 said Cortex AI was retained as a third-party benchmark partner to evaluate MolmoAct 2’s real-world fine-tuning performance across bimanual tasks.
Ai2 / arXiv · May 2026
The paper states that data collection for the large bimanual YAM dataset was supported by Cortex AI and that Cortex AI provided evaluation support.
LinkedIn (Cortex AI) · Mar 2026
Company update saying it was deploying mobile bimanual robots in the wild, collecting real-world data, running model evals, and capturing recovery trajectories.
Tech in Asia · Dec 2025
Announced Cortex AI’s seed funding and its plan to collect real-world robotics data from workplaces to train embodied AI systems.