natural-language-robotics
(2)
Mbodi AI
Mbodi AI is a New York robotics-software company building an embodied AI platform that lets people teach industrial robots new skills through plain natural language and short demonstrations - no code and no specialized engineers. Founded in 2024 by two former Google Public DNS engineers, the platform combines generative AI, agent orchestration and symbolic reasoning to turn everyday instructions into precise, reliable robot actions that run in production within minutes and transfer across an entire robot fleet. Mbodi is a Y Combinator company with a joint commercialization partnership with ABB Robotics.
Medra
Medra builds Physical AI Scientists - robots that run biology experiments end to end. Its platform pairs a reasoning layer that designs and interprets experiments with vision-guided robots that pipette, culture cells, edit genes and log every step, all directed in plain English. Founded by Stanford robotics PhD Michelle Lee, Medra deploys workcells at biopharma partners including Genentech and Addition Therapeutics and is building one of the largest autonomous labs in the United States.