Cortex AI
About
About Cortex AI
Cortex's data pipeline adds hand and body pose, depth and subtask annotations to first-person recordings, turning workplace activity into structured training material. It also collects trajectories on specific robot embodiments and supports supervised model rollouts, including recovery examples when a policy encounters an edge case.
The business extends into evaluation as well as data supply. Ai2 credited Cortex with support for the MolmoAct 2 Bimanual YAM dataset in May 2026 and retained it to benchmark five robot policies across repeated bimanual tasks. This connects Cortex's collection network with model fine-tuning and comparative testing, helping robotics teams assess how trained behaviours transfer to physical tasks.
Team
- Lucas Ngoo - Founder
Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-05 - Contract Award - Emesent receives A$3m grant for Cortex AI autonomy platform
Cortex AI is designed to transfer GPS-denied autonomy across drones, ground robots and heavy vehicles. Emesent reports more than 12 early adopters already using the platform. The grant funds part of the wider A$7.4 million development and commercialisation programme rather than representing customer revenue.
Source - 2025-11-08 - Product Launch - Cortex AI launches real-world data service for general-purpose robotics
The launch targets world-model and robotics foundation-model pretraining. Cortex describes human-in-the-loop support for real-world policy rollouts and recoveries. The product gives Cortex AI a concrete offering for commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows.
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- Physical AI data infrastructure - Stack Layer - Profile source material supports Physical AI data infrastructure context.
- Robot learning - Capability - Profile source material supports Robot learning context.
- Robotics data infrastructure layer - Stack Layer - Profile source material supports Robotics data infrastructure layer context.
Commercial
- Emesent receives A$3m grant for Cortex AI autonomy platform
2026-08-05 · Order / contract · Emesent secured an A$3 million Australian Government grant toward a A$7.4 million programme to develop and commercialise Cortex AI, its modular GPS-denied autonomy platform.
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