# Roboto AI

> Roboto AI is a Seattle-based analytics platform for robotics and Physical AI teams. It ingests multimodal robot logs - ROS bags, PX4/ULog, MCAP, Parquet, video - and uses AI agents plus a Python SDK and CLI to automatically search, analyze, and surface edge cases, anomalies, and failures across entire robot fleets. Founded in 2022 by former Amazon Robotics leaders Benji Barash and Yves Albers-Schoenberg, the company spun out of the Allen Institute for AI and raised a $4.8M seed to help robotics developers stop digging through petabytes of sensor data by hand.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Benji Barash (Co-founder & CEO), Yves Albers-Schoenberg (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~15-30 employees (engineers, scientists and researchers)
- **Products:** Roboto Analytics Platform, Multiformat Log Ingestion, Python SDK & CLI, Fleet-Wide Search & Event Detection, Dataset Curation & Custom Metrics
- **Notable:** Emerged from stealth in April 2023 with a $4.8M seed round led by Unusual Ventures., Spun out of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2)., Named one of the 50 Most Innovative Robotics Companies.

## Products & services

- **Roboto Analytics Platform** — Cloud-based analytics engine that ingests robotics logs, indexes all data, runs automated health checks and AI analysis agents, and surfaces actionable insights instead of raw timelines.
- **Multiformat Log Ingestion** — Single-pipeline support for ROS bags, PX4 (ULog), MCAP, Parquet, video and custom formats through one interface.
- **Python SDK & CLI** — Developer tools that extract robotics logs directly as pandas DataFrames and automate workflows over terabyte-scale sensor data.
- **Fleet-Wide Search & Event Detection** — Query patterns across entire fleets and millions of miles of data; detect vibration spikes, GPS jamming, sensor failures and anomalies.
- **Dataset Curation & Custom Metrics** — Transform raw recordings into structured training/evaluation datasets and track custom reliability KPIs with time-synced playback of video, telemetry and logs.

## Achievements

- Emerged from stealth in April 2023 with a $4.8M seed round led by Unusual Ventures.
- Spun out of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2).
- Named one of the 50 Most Innovative Robotics Companies.
- Founders are former Amazon Robotics leaders; Benji Barash was a founding engineer on Amazon's UK drone delivery program.
- Featured by GeekWire, The Robot Report and SiliconANGLE; Benji Barash appeared on theCUBE for NYSE Wired Robotics & AI Media Week.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Benji Barash presented Roboto AI's approach to logging and observability at the Cloud Robotics Working Group, with a live demo of AI agents debugging robotics data.
- **2025-04** — Benji Barash appeared on theCUBE as part of NYSE Wired Robotics & AI Media Week.
- **2023-04** — Roboto AI emerged from stealth with a $4.8M seed round.

## Links

- Website: https://www.roboto.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/robotoai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/roboto_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/roboto-ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-03