Mbodi AI
Industrial Robots that Learn and Operate Like Humans
Embodied AI for industrial robotics—lets users teach robots new skills in minutes using natural language.
- Founders
- Xavier (Tianhao) Chi, Sebastian Peralta
- YC batch
- P25
Company posts
Summaries from the company’s own website.
- Meet Mbodi, Automate’s 2026 Startup Challenge winner ↗
Mbodi shares an Association for Advancing Automation profile of its 2026 Startup Challenge win. The piece describes the company’s use of smaller models and AI agents to train industrial collaborative robots through natural-language instructions.
- Mbodi AI YC Launch: Embodied AI for Industrial Robotics ↗
Mbodi AI says it is launching an embodied AI platform that lets people teach robots new skills using natural language and quick demonstrations, with the goal of running those skills reliably in production. The company also says it is beginning real-world deployments with ABB as a commercialization partner and has open-sourced a library for integrating transformer models into robotics stacks.