{"id":95318,"title":"🦾 Cortex AI — Large-Scale Real-World Data for General-Purpose Robotics","tagline":"Turning the real physical world into the next dataset for general-purpose robotics.","body":"We’re building the world’s most diverse _real-world, real-workplace_ egocentric + robot dataset — where the **real physical world itself** becomes the next training and eval set for embodied AI.\\\n\\\n🌍 **The Problem**\\\nMost robotics datasets today are captured in lab environments or simulated settings — far removed from the **real physical world** where robots actually need to operate.\\\n\\\nThese datasets helped build the foundation models we have today, but the **next phase** of embodied AI needs to learn directly from the real world — from the noise, diversity, and complexity of real workplaces.\\\n\\\n🤖 **The Solution**\\\n\\\nFrontier labs use **Cortex AI** through 3 stages:\\\n1️⃣ **Get real-world egocentric data** → for world model + robotics foundation model pretraining\\\n2️⃣ **Collect real robot data** in real workplaces\\\n3️⃣ **Roll out policies** across real-world environments → the best evals happen in the real world, with our operators providing human-in-the-loop support to capture recovery data\\\n\\\nhttps://youtu.be/HD-weWSzy4Y\n\n\\\n🏭 **Cortex Marketplace**\\\nWe’re also launching the **Cortex Marketplace**, where _real workplaces get paid_ to host egocentric-capture and robot-teleop sessions — fueling a scalable pipeline of high-quality, real-world robotics data.\\\n\\\n👥 **The Team**\\\nPrior to Cortex AI, **Lucas Ngoo** co-founded and served as CTO of Carousell, scaling it from an idea into a $1B+ valuation marketplace used across Asia.\\\n\\\n🙏 **Our Ask**\\\nIf you work with or know teams at **frontier robotics labs** (humanoid companies, robotics foundation model research groups and teams), please make an intro ([lucas@cortexrobot.ai](mailto:lucas@cortexrobot.ai)) — we’d love to collaborate, thank you!\n\n🔗 [cortexrobot.ai](https://cortexrobot.ai)\\\n📩 [lucas@cortexrobot.ai](mailto:lucas@cortexrobot.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95318\u0026key=user_uploads/53734/069d07db-9cdf-4720-96b4-a7077818cb06)\n\n","slug":"OnO-cortex-ai-large-scale-real-world-data-for-general-purpose-robotics","created_at":"2025-11-08T15:29:09.944Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T22:26:28.666Z","total_vote_count":20,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OnO-cortex-ai-large-scale-real-world-data-for-general-purpose-robotics","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95318\u0026key=user_uploads/53734/069d07db-9cdf-4720-96b4-a7077818cb06","company":{"id":30930,"name":"Cortex AI","slug":"cortex-ai","url":"https://cortexrobot.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1c9246b8eba5ba12a7373a930ea46cc687dddb98.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Reinforcement Learning","Robotics"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30930"}}