YC-backed Ishiki Labs launches Fern, a robotics sim platform that builds high-fidelity sims from 3 teleop episodes
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-05
Y Combinator announced its backing of Fern by Ishiki Labs, a high-fidelity simulation platform for robotics.
- Robotics teams are bottlenecked by real-world evals: slow, expensive, and hard to scale to millions of rollouts
- Fern builds physics- and visually grounded simulations from just 3 teleop episodes
- Teams can run thousands of parallel rollouts via API with no infra, simulators, or solvers to manage
- One customer has already run 900k+ sims on the platform
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