Fern

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Enabling physical AI at scale.

Winter 2026Founded 20252 people

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Physical AI InfrastructureAPI/InfraRobotics companies, physical AI developersMedium competition

Moat

Purpose-built for physical AI systems; infrastructure and tooling differentiate from general ML platforms.

Key risk

Market definition unclear; competing against robot OS, ROS, and cloud ML platforms.

Why now

Robotics adoption accelerating; physical AI needs specialized infra; market emerging.

Competitors

ROS, cloud robotics platforms, traditional robot vendors

↻ Pivot / rename signal

This company has previously operated under “ProactiveAI”, “Ishiki Labs”, “Fern (Formerly Ishiki Labs)”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.

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Enabling physical AI at scale.

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Amit YadavFounder

Meta🎓 Purdue University

Cofounder and CEO at Ishiki Labs (W26). Previously: Research Scientist, first in LlaMA team training multimodal LLMs and then in Reality Labs at Meta training video assistant for smart glasses. PhD from Purdue University with 20+ publications at top conferences like CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICASSP

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