Instance
Provider 
Founded 2026
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership Venture-Backed

Instance verifies robot task completion from camera footage, returning grounded success evidence for every episode.
Instance verifies whether a robot actually completed its task. Given a task description and camera footage of a rollout, the system returns a success verdict with grounded subtask evidence, for every episode, on any robot platform, so robotics teams can trust their training data without humans watching each rollout.
The product launched in July 2026 through Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch under its provider Most Robotic, starting with the success detector. Its verifier was benchmarked against more than ten thousand held-out, human-labeled episodes across seven robot platforms and returned higher accuracy than Claude Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the latency, with a public demo at demo.instancelabs.ai where teams verify their own rollouts live.
Fern

Fern Robotics Evaluation Platform
fern.bot
Scale AI

Physical AI Data Annotation
scale.com
Shotwell.ai

Shotwell Robotics Observability
shotwell.ai
| Attribute | Instance | Fern Robotics Evaluation Platform | Physical AI Data Annotation | Shotwell Robotics Observability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | |||||
| Founded | 2026 | 2025 | 2016 | — | |
| Sells To | — | B2B, Enterprise | Enterprise | — | |
| Pricing Model | — | SaaS, Software | Recurring, SaaS | — | |
| Ownership | Venture-Backed | — | Equity, Private Equity, Venture Capital | — |
Provider 
Founded 2026
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership Venture-Backed
Founded 2025
Sells To B2B, Enterprise
Pricing Model SaaS, Software
Ownership —
Provider 
Founded 2016
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, SaaS
Ownership Equity, Private Equity, Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded —
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership —
Robotics Observability Platform