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Hebbian Robotics

APIs for robotics data teams to verify data quality for model training

Hebbian Robotics builds APIs for robotics data teams to verify data quality for model training. Our customers use us to build quality control pipelines in just a few lines of code, with custom models 10x faster and 8x cheaper than general foundation models. https://hebbianrobotics.com/ https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow
Active Founders
Brandon Ong
Brandon Ong
Founder/CEO
Brandon led AI at LionsBot (series B robotics startup) that deploys industrial cleaning robots globally and did foundation model research that topped Stanford’s AI benchmark (SEA-HELM), co-created with Percy Liang's group. He previously co-founded Gigit AI as CTO, backed by Sequoia India, where he was one of the first to train LLMs for Southeast Asian languages. He dropped out of his joint PhD in Robotics at Columbia and NTU to work on Hebbian, and was a national athlete in two sports.
Kingston Kuan
Kingston Kuan
Founder/CTO
Kingston spent the last few years at Jane Street building systems that scaled to millions of messages per second. He graduated valedictorian from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Computer Engineering.
Company Launches
Hebbian Robotics - APIs for searching and analyzing Physical AI data at scale
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TLDR;

  • Hebbian Robotics builds APIs for searching and analyzing Physical AI data at scale
  • Our APIs enable data providers to get on-demand signals and metrics on the quality of their data, without managing infrastructure
  • We help our customers evaluate data quality without training a robotics model

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Our Ask

Who We Are

  • We’re Brandon and Kingston, we've trained AI models for industrial cleaning robots and built production systems for camera fleets across the globe
  • Brandon Ong's previous AI startup was backed by Sequoia. He did research on AI for low resource languages that topped Stanford’s LLM benchmark, SEA-HELM, and dropped out of his joint PhD in Robotics at Columbia and NTU
  • Kingston Kuan spent years at Jane Street building systems that scaled to millions of messages per second. At Verkada, he worked on their core video surveillance platform that processed large scale multimodal data

The Problem

  • High quality data is the bottleneck for unlocking the next frontier of intelligence in robotics
  • Buyers want data they can trust
  • Data providers don’t have the bandwidth to provide signals and metrics about the quality of their data when they are focused on operational excellence
  • This means that model developers are forgoing model improvements due to a lack of high quality data, impeding progress in robotics

Our Solution

  • APIs for searching and analyzing Physical AI data at scale that enables providers to get on-demand signals and metrics on data quality
  • Buyers demanding per-collector hour limits? Prove compliance while we stay ahead of the workarounds
  • Changed standard operating procedures for collection? Monitor for quality drift and regression
  • Suspect duplicate samples? Verify quickly with a single API call
  • Our APIs enable evaluation of data quality without training a robotics model, fast iteration cycles for high quality data collection, and unlock model improvements 

How to reach us

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Hebbian Robotics
Founded:2026
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Diana Hu