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Fern
AddedJul 4, 2026
UpdatedJul 4, 2026
Fern

Fern

Fern builds high-fidelity, learned simulators that let robotics teams evaluate and train policies at scale without physical hardware.

HQ
San Francisco, CA, US
Founded
2025
Accelerator
Y Combinator logoY CombinatorW26
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Fern is a robotics evaluation and reinforcement-learning platform operated by Ishiki Labs. It trains action-conditioned world models directly from real robot data, enabling teams to benchmark and improve policies without running them on physical hardware. The platform outputs high-fidelity RGB rollouts from end-effector commands and supports closed-loop evaluation, apples-to-apples comparisons, and reproducible testing across tasks and research groups.

Founded in 2025 and part of the Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch, Fern serves policy developers, RL researchers, and robotics companies that want managed cloud evaluation or custom world models trained on their own teleoperation data.

Fern - Products & Services

  • Fern Robotics Evaluation Platform logo

    Fern Robotics Evaluation Platform

    Fern learns world models from robot data for scalable policy evaluation and training.

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Fern - Quick Facts

Who are Fern's competitors?

Companies similar to Fern include Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, One Robot and XDOF.

When was Fern founded?

Fern was founded in 2025.

Where is Fern's headquarters located?

Fern's headquarters is located in San Francisco, CA, US.

How many employees does Fern have?

Fern has 2 employees as of Jul 4, 2026.

Fern - Classification

Industry
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
Geographic Exposure
  • Global
Model
  • Platform
Revenue
  • SaaS
  • Software
Customer
  • B2B
  • Enterprise