# Benji Barash

> Benji Barash is the co-founder and CEO of Roboto AI, a Seattle startup building an analytics platform for robotics and physical AI. A former engineering leader on Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program, he spent his Amazon days writing throwaway scripts to wrangle sensor logs - and turned that frustration into a company. After more than six years at Amazon and a year as entrepreneur-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI, he and CTO Yves Albers-Schoenberg launched Roboto out of stealth in 2023 with a $4.8M seed round, on the conviction that robotics doesn't have an algorithm problem, it has a data problem.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Roboto AI
- **Organizations:** Roboto AI, Amazon Robotics / Prime Air, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), University of Bristol
- **Education:** MSc, Computer Science (top graduating student), University of Bristol
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Roboto AI, an analytics platform for robotics and physical AI, Raised a $4.8M seed round in 2023 led by Unusual Ventures, Founding engineer on Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program

## Career timeline

- **pre-2016** — Top graduating student in the Computer Science Master's program at the University of Bristol
- **2016-2022** — Engineering leader at Amazon; founding engineer on Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program in Cambridge, UK; led robotics middleware and large-scale simulation platforms for safety-critical autonomy
- **2022-2023** — Entrepreneur-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) incubator in Seattle
- **2023** — Co-founded Roboto AI with Yves Albers-Schoenberg; emerged from stealth in April with a $4.8M seed round led by Unusual Ventures (with AI2 and Fuse Ventures)
- **2025-2026** — Invited speaker at the NYSE (theCUBE / NYSE Wired), ROSCon, Robotics Summit & Expo, and RoboBusiness; Roboto named one of the 50 Most Innovative Robotics Companies

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Roboto AI, an analytics platform for robotics and physical AI
- Raised a $4.8M seed round in 2023 led by Unusual Ventures
- Founding engineer on Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program
- Top graduating student in the University of Bristol CS Master's program
- Invited speaker at the NYSE, ROSCon, Robotics Summit & Expo, and RoboBusiness
- Roboto AI recognized among the 50 Most Innovative Robotics Companies

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Speaking at Robotics Summit & Expo on 'The Data Flywheel for AI-Native Robots'
- **2025-11** — Featured on theCUBE at the New York Stock Exchange discussing physical AI and robotics data infrastructure

## Links

- Website: https://roboto.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benji-barash/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/bbarash

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Last updated: 2026-06-25