Benji Barash

Founder and CEO @roboto_ai. Building the analytics engine for Physical AI. Previously @amazon @allen_ai.

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

🎉 Boom: @roboto_ai has been named one of the Most Innovative Robotics Companies for the second year in a row!

This year’s recognition highlights the work we’ve been doing to automate robotics data analysis with AI agents - helping teams automatically triage, curate, investigate, and understand robotics logs. We've been amazed by the results our customers are already seeing.

Special thanks to @therobotreport for spotlighting the innovation happening across the industry right now. We’re honored to be included alongside companies like @amazon, @ChefRobotics, @createme, @GoogleDeepMind, @huggingface, @NVIDIARobotics, @physical_int, @Waymo and others pushing the frontier of Physical AI.

Can’t wait to pick up our award at the Robotics Summit & Expo in 2 weeks. Let me know if you're going!

#RBR50 #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Data #Agents

[Doug Regner @DougRegner]

Go @roboto_ai!

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

Our team at @roboto_ai is super excited to be in the Physical AI Fellowship so we can automate data analysis at every robotics company! 🤖🦾

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

Meet the next wave of robotics startups. 🤖

The AWS x @MassRobotics Fellowship cohort is advancing real-world robotics across agriculture, manufacturing, humanoids and beyond.

From autonomous farming to AI-driven automation, #NVIDIAInception members @burro_ai, @config_inc, Deltia, @HaplyRobotics, Luminous Robotics, @roboto_ai, Telexistence, Terra Robotics, and WiRobotics are shaping the future of physical AI. 📖 https://t.co/0ElNEbdg45

#NationalRoboticsWeek

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

Meet the next wave of robotics startups. 🤖

The AWS x @MassRobotics Fellowship cohort is advancing real-world robotics across agriculture, manufacturing, humanoids and beyond.

From autonomous farming to AI-driven automation, #NVIDIAInception members @burro_ai, @config_inc, Deltia, @HaplyRobotics, Luminous Robotics, @roboto_ai, Telexistence, Terra Robotics, and WiRobotics are shaping the future of physical AI. 📖 https://t.co/0ElNEbdg45

#NationalRoboticsWeek

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

We’re entering a new era of robotics data analysis.

This agent in @roboto_ai is working through bimanual manipulation (grasping) data - automatically pulling out the moments that matter.

#PhysicalAI #Robotics

[Keller Cliffton @Keller]

The Bitter Lesson of Robotics: It's extremely easy to make a video of a robot doing something once under perfect conditions then post it to X. But it often takes a decade to harden systems and design for all the insane edge cases of the real world. Many companies raising $$$$ on cool demos, but all the hard work comes after

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

AI agents can now debug robotics data for you.

In October at #ROSCon and November at #PX4 Dev Summit, I demoed an AI agent debugging a robot log end-to-end for the first time. I got a healthy mixture of excitement and skepticism from the audiences. Back then, “agents” was still a term mostly being used by AI investors, but internally the results had surprised us enough to start testing with customers. Since then, foundation models have gone through another step change in capability.

For several decades in robotics, the debugging loop has been the same. A robot fails, you pull the logs, replay sensor data, and spend hours trying to figure out what happened. While you’re doing that, another robot fails for a different reason. This has quietly been one of the biggest bottlenecks holding the industry back. If your robots are constantly failing and it takes hours to investigate each issue, you can’t scale up your deployments.

At @roboto_ai, we've been building the foundation to change this. Instead of manually digging through logs, you can ask what happened and have the system investigate, explain, and pull up the relevant data. I recorded a short video of me debugging a PX4 Autopilot drone flight using our new AI Chat interface.

Customers are already using this to automate review and integrate with their internal systems. We think this will finally let robotics teams scale the way software teams do.

#robotics #data #agents #ros #px4

[MassRobotics @MassRobotics]

MassRobotics is excited to announce the second cohort of the Physical AI Fellowship powered by @awscloud Startup and @nvidia Inception.
🤖 2026 Cohort: @burro_ | @config_inc | Deltia | @HaplyRobotics | Luminous | @roboto_ai | Telexistence | Terra Robotics | WIRobotics Inc.

Learn more here: https://t.co/VQ0zHMuxJn
@AWSstartups | @NVIDIARobotics

[Roboto @roboto_ai]

We're thrilled to have been selected for the #PhysicalAIFellowship by @awscloud @nvidia @MassRobotics.

Excited to join some amazing robotics companies like Burro, Luminous, Haply and more!

Roboto is used by teams building complex systems, including drones, surgical robots, and autonomous vehicles, where reliability and uptime are critical. We’re excited to use these resources to accelerate Roboto’s development and expansion, giving our customers the insights they need to scale 🚀

[Niamh O' Donnell 🌉 @thatniamhod]

Last night, @Unusual_VC & @roboto_ai hosted our 2nd dinner on Scaling Reliability in High-Stakes Robotics🤖

From surgical robots to autonomous forklifts, industrial arms to flying taxis, we saw different domains but the same reality:
As robots scale from pilots → fleets, the long tail of edge cases + operational complexity become the problem. We dug into:
1️⃣ End-to-end learning in regulated, safety-critical systems
2️⃣ Detecting out-of-distribution events at massive scale
3️⃣ How connectivity tailwinds (e.g., Starlink) are unlocking reliable edge data

Grateful to the incredible group of robotics leaders who made it such a rich conversation.

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

Robotics is absolutely having a moment, but flashy demos don’t automatically turn into fleets that scale. I was on @NYSE Live with @KristenScholer last week, and we dug into this as part of their #CES coverage.

One of the toughest challenges in robotics today is going from a few robots to a large fleet. You might have never noticed a problem that shows up once in a thousand missions. But as soon as you have a fleet of 100 robots, it might start happening multiple times a day. The long tail of bugs and edge cases quickly adds up, and finding them is painful and expensive.

If the industry can’t figure this out, #robotics will continue to struggle. This is why we’re building @roboto_ai We’re helping teams automate analysis of their robotics data so they can catch issues before their customers do, and scale up their fleets with confidence.

Let's make 2026 the year of real fleets!

[NYSE 🏛 @NYSE]

Today on NYSE Live | It's an all-tech episode.

@BabcockWilcox CEO reveals how the firm is built to thrive in the AI data center era. @DivesTech and Cullen Rogers join live after @Wedbush rings the Opening Bell! Plus, hear from @roboto_ai, @_aiOla, & more https://t.co/ZznvhRErkd

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

@hans_ojisan haha yes!! I first showed it at the demo stage in Odense - thanks for sharing 🤗

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

I showed tools we're building at @roboto_ai to help:

1️⃣ Signal similarity search for pattern detection
2️⃣ Vision-language models for event annotation
3️⃣ AI summarization for faster triage

And a sneak peek of an AI agent that debugs robot logs on its own 🤖

@OpenRoboticsOrg

[Benji Barash @BBarash]

Just wrapped up my talk at #ROSCon in Singapore! 🇸🇬

Robotics teams are drowning in logs - the real challenge is finding the important events hidden inside!

#Robotics #ROS #AI #RoboticsData

[Roboto @roboto_ai]

Our team is in Singapore 🇸🇬 this week for #ROSCon2025 — come say hi at Booth 19/20 for stickers and our famous socks. Our CEO, @BBarash, will present in the main conference tomorrow at 4.30pm: “Detecting Complex Events in ROS Data” 👀👀

[Roboto @roboto_ai]

Live from #ROSCon in Singapore 🇸🇬! John Hubberts on our team gave an awesome workshop on how to automate #ROS bag analysis with Roboto. The room was packed! #ROSCon2025

[Roboto @roboto_ai]

Catch us at #RoboBusiness this week at booth 816. Our founder @BBarash will also be diving into the two data problems of #robotics and how new data curation techniques can help solve them. #data #PhysicalAI @NVIDIARobotics

[Niamh O' Donnell 🌉 @thatniamhod]

Last night, @Unusual_VC and @roboto_ai hosted a thought leadership dinner on “Scaling Reliability in High-Stakes Robotics.”

Leaders @Waymo, @amazon & more joined to tackle challenges like scaling fleets, foundation models, and data flywheels. Excited to keep the convo going! 🤖

[Tanmay Agarwal @tanmayxagarwal]

We've had an overwhelming response to our Robotics Happy Hour for @Techweek_ today at 4 PM, with almost 400 requests to attend.

We're bringing together a curated mix of top startups and investors shaping the future of robotics and AI. Our guest list includes engineers and founders from Anthropic, DeepMind, Apple, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, and NVIDIA, alongside cutting-edge startups like Agility Robotics, Chef Robotics, and Verne Robotics. Leading investors from 500 Global, Samsung Ventures, GS Futures, and Lowercarbon Capital are also joining, plus researchers from Stanford, UC Berkeley, and University of Tokyo. It’s shaping up to be an incredible night of innovation and collaboration in the Bay Area robotics community.

Link to RSVP in the comments!

Panel starts at 4:30 PM with:

- @emilyyu1217 from @BoostVC
- @Abhindas1 from @OrangewoodLabs
- @BBarash from @roboto_ai

I'm still adding folks to the RSVP, so get on the list if you haven't yet! If you're not approved but think you should be, DM me.

RSVP HERE: https://t.co/hBTtzk01LL?

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