Association for Advancing Automation · Jul 2026
Mbodi won Automate’s 2026 Startup Challenge, reinforcing its physical-AI approach for industrial robotics and drawing validation from judges including Nvidia and Microsoft.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Mbodi AI is a New York-based embodied AI / industrial robotics software company that lets operators teach existing robots new skills through natural language and quick demonstrations, with the system running as a cloud-to-edge orchestration layer for production use.
Primary product
Embodied AI platform for industrial robots
Founded
2024
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Embodied AI for industrial robotics
Offices
New York, NY, US
Business model
B2B software platform
licensing-based software
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
Mission-driven and research-heavy: the company describes itself as a team of engineers, scientists, and philosophers building reliable systems for robots in the physical world, with an open-source and production-first culture.
Compensation
Public YC job listings show NYC-based roles at roughly $100K-$250K base salary with about 0.25%-2.00% equity, depending on role; broader compensation policy is not publicly disclosed.
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise software licensing / per-deployment or per-robot licensing
Differentiators
- —Natural-language and demonstration-based robot teaching
- —Runs on a cloud-to-edge architecture
- —Coordinates perception, reasoning, planning, and control in real time
- —Fleet-wide skill transfer across robots/facilities
- —Designed for production reliability, not just demos
- —Open-sourced embodied-agents library
Technology
cloud-to-edge architecture
agent orchestration
symbolic reasoning
perception/planning/control loop
transformer models
vision-language-action models
Python
Pydantic
TypeScript
C runtime components
OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/vLLM backends
OpenVLA
YOLO
Depth Anything
Segment Anything 2
Customers
ABB Robotics
Fortune 100 consumer packaged goods company (proof of concept)
manufacturers
system integrators
robot makers
Competitors
Physical Intelligence
Skild AI
Covariant
Figure AI
Apptronik
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (public estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
4.9K
Latest news
TechCrunch · Oct 2025
TechCrunch highlighted Mbodi’s AI-agent approach to robot training and said the company was working on a proof of concept with a Fortune 100 CPG company.
Business Insider · Jun 2025
Business Insider included Mbodi in its roundup of the most interesting YC Spring 2025 AI-agent startups, describing its robot-teaching product for industrial robotics.
The Robot Report · May 2025
The Robot Report covered Mbodi’s YC X25 launch, describing the product, ABB partnership, and cloud-to-edge orchestration approach.
ABB Robotics · Dec 2024
ABB named Mbodi a winner of its 2024 AI Startup Challenge, awarded project funding, and said the startups would collaborate with ABB on market-ready solutions.
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