Robots can be programmed to perform various tasks, like packing boxes and even performing surgeries. But each movement or individual task requires its own special training process, which makes the robot to adapt in real scenarios.
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New York-based Mbodi builds cloud-based systems, hybrid computing systems using cloud and local computing, designed to integrate into robotic technology stacks. The software relies on AI agents communicating with each other to gather the information they need to help the robot learn tasks quickly.
Once implemented, Mbodi will collect data and learn from real-world use cases.
Xavier Chi, co-founder and CEO of mbodi, told Tech Tech that the software uses natural language, and Mbodi eliminates smaller requests. Clusters of Mbodi agents intentionally divide and conquer tasks to gather the information needed to train the robot quickly.
“The hard thing with the physical world is that the possibilities are endless,” Chi said. “Every time you come across something new, you don’t have the data yet, which is a problem in the physical world. We always have to have systems with different models or we can’t do certain things.”
Chi said he and co-founder Sebastian Peralta got the idea for the company while working as engineers at Google. When they are not working with robotics, the two men come to the defense in Ai and then appear in the physical world and despite the rapid rise of robots.
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Many companies, like Skilled AI and Fieldaiwants to help make training robots faster by building big-world AI models with real data to easily create new environments. Chi says that philosophy alone does not work in a changing world.
Mbodi launched in 2024 with a focus on picking and packaging. The company won the AI Startup AI Competition last year, which landed a partnership with the existing robotics organization SWIZZ acquired by softbank $5.4 billion in October.
Currently the company is working with Fortune 100 companies in the consumer and goods space on proof of concept.
“For CPG customers, they have a lot of people, they carry a lot of products for a brand to be a tray or a shelf item, the problem is changing every day,” Chi said. “Because of that, it’s impossible to put a robot there. To visualize the robot, but it’s not possible, there’s still work to be done.
Mbodi hopes to start installing more software in 2026.
“We wanted to build something that could be done, something that could be ignored,” Chi said. “We’re not a research lab; we don’t want to be a research lab in that sense. We want to put things into production that work reliably.”
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