# Sebastian Peralta

> Sebastian Peralta is a physicist-turned-roboticist and co-founder of Mbodi AI, a New York startup teaching industrial robots new skills through plain language and quick demonstrations instead of weeks of reprogramming. A former core engineer on Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with a triple major in electrical engineering, computer science, and physics from UPenn, he builds embodied-AI systems where one robot's lesson instantly becomes the whole fleet's. Mbodi won ABB Robotics' global AI Startup Challenge, reached the Startup Battlefield Top 20 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, and is rolling out factory deployments with a Fortune 100 consumer-goods partner.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO, Mbodi AI
- **Organizations:** Mbodi AI, Google (Public DNS), University of Pennsylvania (GRASP Lab)
- **Education:** Triple major - Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Master of Engineering, graduate robotics research, University of Pennsylvania (GRASP Robotics Lab)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Mbodi AI, an embodied-AI platform for teaching industrial robots via natural language and demonstration, Won ABB Robotics' global AI Startup Challenge from among hundreds of entrants, earning a joint commercialization agreement, Selected for Y Combinator (Spring 2025)

## Career timeline

- **2021** — Completes Master of Engineering at UPenn with graduate research at the GRASP Robotics Lab
- **2021-2024** — Works as a core engineer at Google, including on Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8)
- **2024** — Co-founds Mbodi AI with Xavier (Tianhao) Chi to build embodied AI for industrial robots
- **2025** — Mbodi joins Y Combinator (Spring 2025 batch); wins ABB Robotics global AI Startup Challenge; reaches Startup Battlefield Top 20 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
- **2026** — Mbodi plans wider factory deployments following Fortune 100 consumer-goods proof-of-concept

## Achievements

- Co-founded Mbodi AI, an embodied-AI platform for teaching industrial robots via natural language and demonstration
- Won ABB Robotics' global AI Startup Challenge from among hundreds of entrants, earning a joint commercialization agreement
- Selected for Y Combinator (Spring 2025)
- Named a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
- Open-sourced the embodied-agents / embdata libraries for integrating transformer models into robotics stacks
- Former core engineer on Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8), one of the internet's most heavily used services

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Mbodi demonstrated AI-agent robot training as a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
- **2025-05** — Mbodi raised seed funding and joined Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch

## Links

- Website: https://sebastian.peralta.space
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebbyjp
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/sebbyjp
- GitHub: https://github.com/sebbyjp

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Last updated: 2026-06-21