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ai and robotics training data platforms

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horizontal · 34 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

Products in this niche provide curated multimodal datasets, teleoperation logs, and automated collection pipelines designed to train embodied AI and autonomous robotic systems. They are built for robotics engineers, AI researchers, and autonomous hardware labs looking to train real-world perception, manipulation, and navigation policies. Unlike standard image or text annotation tools, these platforms specialize in physical-world interaction data, robotic sensor streams, and hardware-compatible formats.

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Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
Luel: The Marketplace for Multimodal Data YC 766 2026-02-02
DeepReach: Launch a real-world data business today YC 470 2026-08-13
Lightning Rod PH 339 2026-03-17
Pegasus 1.6 by TwelveLabs PH 269 2026-10-07
Phyzical_org GITHUB 258 2026-09-09
hillclimb - Training data derived from human superintelligence YC 155 2025-11-15
dreamforge GITHUB 123 2026-10-12
Hebbian Robotics - APIs for searching and analyzing Physical AI data at scale YC 81 2026-08-09
Traverse - Data Research for the Non-Verifiable YC 41 2026-03-06
FlashDexRetarget GITHUB 40 2026-10-04
Sylvian: Data for LLMs through Competition YC 36 2025-11-04
Intelligence Factory YC 33 2026-05-30
Human Archive: The World's Largest multimodal robotics dataset YC 29 2026-03-08
Ooak Data: Turn internal company data into a training ground where AI agents can be trained on real work YC 26 2026-08-14
Spatial AI: Large datasets for robot foundation models YC 22 2025-11-17
🦾 Cortex AI — Large-Scale Real-World Data for General-Purpose Robotics YC 20 2025-11-08
Largest public dataset of electronic circuit files HN 19 2025-12-18
Vision Lab: The Industrial Data Layer for Robotics YC 18 2026-03-23
Origami Robotics: Make AI to Learn Physical Skills Easier than Ever YC 17 2026-03-05
A sample dataset of computer-use tasks on professional software HN 16 2026-08-18
Pipeline and datasets for data-centric AI on real-world floor plans HN 12 2026-02-05
Markov - Data for computer-use AI YC 11 2026-08-11
Asimov 🤖: On demand human intelligence for robots YC 11 2026-03-09
Praxis AI - Training Data for Robotics YC 11 2026-08-06
roboto-physical-ai-actions GITHUB 9 2026-09-22
Sureform: Turning physical expertise into training data for world models and robotics YC 9 2026-02-23
PerfectBit: AI Training data, correct by construction YC 8 2026-05-14
A Layer for robotics dataset quality HN 5 2026-08-26
Datoric | Trustworthy data for the next generation of models YC 4 2026-07-29
Neutals Labs PH 2 2026-10-02
Deepen Refinery PH 2 2026-09-23
WAKE PH 2 2026-09-15
Hub: real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics YC 1 2026-06-15
Calibra Dataset Intelligence PH 1 2026-09-27