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Fern Bot

Fern (operating as Ishiki Labs) is a Y Combinator (Winter 2026) physical-AI startup building high-fidelity, custom robot world models that let robotics companies evaluate and train their robot policies at scale in software. Fern provides plug-and-play reinforcement-learning environments generated from a foundational world model: robotics teams seed varied starting scenes from their production environments, test and improve policies entirely in simulation, and Fern generates RL heads on top of existing policies to raise speed and success rates — a continual-learning flywheel where production robots improve every week. Founded in 2025 by CEO Amit Yadav (ex-Meta LLaMA / Reality Labs research scientist) and CTO Robert Xu (ex-Meta Reality Labs and Citadel Securities). As of this profile Fern publishes a marketing site, a whitepaper, and case studies but no public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface.

Fern Bot is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Physical AI, Reinforcement Learning, and World Models.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: fern-bot
name: Fern Bot
description: 'Fern (operating as Ishiki Labs) is a Y Combinator (Winter 2026) physical-AI startup building high-fidelity,
  custom robot world models that let robotics companies evaluate and train their robot policies at scale in software. Fern
  provides plug-and-play reinforcement-learning environments generated from a foundational world model: robotics teams seed
  varied starting scenes from their production environments, test and improve policies entirely in simulation, and Fern generates
  RL heads on top of existing policies to raise speed and success rates — a continual-learning flywheel where production robots
  improve every week. Founded in 2025 by CEO Amit Yadav (ex-Meta LLaMA / Reality Labs research scientist) and CTO Robert Xu
  (ex-Meta Reality Labs and Citadel Securities). As of this profile Fern publishes a marketing site, a whitepaper, and case
  studies but no public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface.'
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-yc-batch: W2026
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  label: Unknown
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Robotics
- Physical AI
- Reinforcement Learning
- World Models
- Simulation
- Infrastructure
- Y Combinator
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
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- type: Whitepaper
  url: https://fern.bot/whitepaper
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://fern.bot/case-studies
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fernbot
- type: X
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/fern-bot-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence