Mbodi AI

About Mbodi AI

Mbodi AI is a New York City-based company developing an embodied AI platform that teaches robots new skills through natural language in minutes, eliminating the need for specialized coding or extensive retraining. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator, the company has raised seed funding and won ABB Robotics' global AI Startup Challenge, leading to a joint commercialization agreement with ABB Robotics. The core innovation is MbodiOS, a cloud-to-edge operating system for real-time agent orchestration with sub-0.5 second action execution. The platform features the Mbodi Language Engine (MLE) enabling robots to understand natural language instructions, a continual learning system allowing robots to improve through interactions without manual intervention, and generative data augmentation that research suggests can reduce failure rates by 80% in unfamiliar environments. Key capabilities include generality (teaching robots new tasks across diverse environments in minutes), interactivity (adapting to changing conditions on-the-fly), scalability (running across robot fleets with full reproducibility), and reliability (producing stable, predictable behavior for production deployment). The company has open-sourced their embodied-agents library, demonstrating commitment to advancing the broader robotics community. Co-founded by Xavier Chi and Sebastian Peralta, whose team previously managed Google's Public DNS emphasizing 100% uptime reliability, Mbodi AI is recognized with a 2025 RBR50 Innovation Award. The platform targets hobbyists, researchers, and robotics companies seeking to reduce labor costs and enable flexible automation without teleoperation data or downtime, representing a significant step toward general-purpose robotics accessible to non-experts.

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