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
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
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
San Francisco, California, United States
Singapore, Singapore
Business model
B2B data marketplace
data collection services
dataset licensing / data access
human-in-the-loop evaluation services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6.5M
Latest round
Seed VC · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$6M
Nov 2025
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Head of Operations and Hardware
GTM and Partnerships Lead
Head of YAM Arms
Work & culture
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
Work on frontier embodied AI and robotics
Hands-on experience with teleoperation rigs and VR capture systems
Collaborate with high-energy engineers and roboticists
Build infrastructure for real-world data collection
Work across San Francisco and Singapore
Product & market
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
- —Real-world workplace data instead of lab/sim-only data
- —Combined egocentric human video and robot trajectory data
- —Hand/body pose, depth, and subtask annotations
- —Human-in-the-loop rollouts with recovery data
- —Industrial-setting data collection
- —Marketplace that pays host workplaces
Technology
robot teleoperation systems
egocentric capture pipelines
robotics data pipelines
cloud-native full-stack applications
VR capture systems
Meta Quest 3
robot arms and grippers
sensor calibration and data logging
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T-related open-source work
i2rt-related open-source work
Customers
frontier robotics labs
robotics foundation model teams
humanoid robotics companies
general-purpose robot developers
industrial workplaces hosting capture sessions
Competitors
Scale AI
Encord
Sama
Stardust
Covariant
Meta Ego4D
Scale & contact
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
Latest news
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.
Jobs and careers at Cortex AI
7 jobs at Cortex AI
Business Development Representative
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Senior Professional Services Engineer - Implementation and Onboarding
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Staff Platform Engineer
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Manager, Customer Engineering
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Lead Software Engineer, Backend
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