Building intelligent systems where AI meets the physical world — bringing sensing, compute and intelligence closer to where decisions actually happen.
Each vertical applies the same sense → compute → intelligence → action pipeline to a different physical-world problem. Click any of them for a closer look.
Cameras that detect, classify and decide on-device, in real time.
View product →Aggregate sensors and run inference at the edge of the network.
View product →Perception models built for real-world scenes, not lab benchmarks.
View product →Monitoring, inspection and automation for plants and machinery.
View product →Perception and decision systems for vehicles and mobility.
View product →Sensors that pre-process and reason before data ever leaves the device.
View product →Perception and control intelligence for machines that move.
View product →Connected devices that understand context, not just report data.
View product →Compact generative models that run locally, without the cloud.
View product →The next wave of AI is moving beyond the data center — into cameras, vehicles, robots, industrial systems and everyday devices.
Decisions where data is generated, without unnecessary cloud round trips.
Keep sensitive information closer to the device and its environment.
Reduce data movement and use compute intelligently.
Sense, understand and act fast enough for physical-world systems.
Exploring the intersection of silicon, embedded systems, AI and real-world applications.
Efficient AI inference and intelligent processing at the edge.
AI integrated into devices, sensors, processors and connected systems.
Systems that perceive and understand the physical environment.
Connecting sensing, compute, intelligence and action.
Illustrative figures for a typical inference workload — the kind of gap that decides whether a system reacts in time or not.
A technology lab focused on emerging ideas where AI, embedded computing and the physical world converge.
Compact, capable models that run closer to users and devices.
Turning cameras and sensors into systems that perceive and respond.
Moving beyond connected devices toward systems that understand and act.
Exploring software, models and hardware co-designed for efficient intelligence.
MetalBrains brings together experience across semiconductors, embedded systems, automotive, IoT and AI to explore practical intelligent systems for the physical world. The work spans from model design down to the constraints of the silicon it has to run on — because an edge system is only as good as its weakest layer.
Vision hardware with inference built in — a camera that classifies, counts and flags on-device, so a decision is made in the same moment the frame is captured.
On-device inferenceDetection and classification run locally — no round trip to a server before a decision can be made.
Works offlineKeeps functioning through network drops, since nothing about the core decision depends on connectivity.
Privacy by defaultRaw footage can stay on-device; only the result of the decision needs to leave, if anything does.
Built for real scenesTuned for the lighting, motion and clutter of an actual deployment site, not a clean lab bench.
A gateway that sits between a site's sensors and the network — aggregating feeds and running inference locally, so the site keeps working even when the link to anywhere else doesn't.
Multi-sensor aggregationBring cameras, IoT sensors and industrial signals into a single local inference point.
Local-first decisionsThe gateway can act immediately; the cloud connection stays useful, not required.
Fleet-readyBuilt to be deployed across many sites and managed centrally when a connection does exist.
Protocol flexibleSpeaks the mix of protocols an existing site already uses, rather than demanding a rebuild.
Computer vision models built and evaluated against the conditions they'll actually run in — variable light, occlusion, motion — rather than a curated benchmark dataset.
Scene-specific tuningModels adapted to the actual camera angle, lighting and clutter of a deployment, not a generic dataset.
Robust to occlusionDesigned to stay useful when the view is partial, not just when it's ideal.
Compact by designSized to run within the compute and power budget of the edge device it ships on.
Explainable outputDetections come with confidence and context, not just a black-box label.
AI systems built for industrial conditions — dust, vibration, heat, and equipment that was never designed with a network port in mind.
Defect inspectionVisual quality checks that run at line speed, on every unit, not a sampled fraction.
Equipment monitoringReads existing sensors and camera feeds to flag drift from normal operation early.
Retrofit-friendlyBolts onto equipment that's already running rather than requiring a replacement.
Built for harsh sitesHardened for the heat, dust and vibration of an actual plant floor.
Perception and decision systems for vehicles — built around the hard real-time constraint that a car can't wait on a server to decide what it just saw.
Hard real-time perceptionObject and hazard detection running within a strict, predictable latency budget.
Works without connectivityCore driving-relevant decisions never depend on a live network connection.
Sensor fusionCombines camera, radar and other inputs into a single, more reliable read of the scene.
Automotive-grade reliabilityBuilt to the consistency and failure-mode standards a moving vehicle requires.
Sensors that do more than report a raw reading — pre-processing and reasoning about the signal locally, so what leaves the device is already a useful answer.
On-sensor reasoningFilters and interprets a signal before it's ever transmitted, cutting noise at the source.
Low power by designBuilt to run for long stretches on constrained power budgets.
Fewer false alarmsLocal context reduces the noisy, low-value alerts raw threshold sensors tend to generate.
Drop-in deploymentDesigned to slot into an existing sensor network rather than replace it wholesale.
Perception and control intelligence for machines that move — built to sit inside the control loop itself, where a delayed decision is a missed grip or a bad step, not just a slow response.
In-loop perceptionSensing and inference run inside the same control loop that drives the actuator, not alongside it.
Grip & motion correctionReal-time adjustment based on what the machine is actually encountering.
Obstacle awarenessOn-board detection of people and obstacles for safe, adaptive navigation.
Platform agnosticBuilt to integrate with a range of arms, mobile bases and control interfaces.
Moving connected devices from raw data collectors to systems that understand context — so the fleet reports meaning, not just numbers.
Context-aware reportingDevices interpret readings locally instead of shipping raw numbers for someone else to make sense of.
Reduced data volumeOnly meaningful events and summaries need to travel over the network.
Fleet-wide intelligencePatterns surface across a whole device fleet, not just from a single sensor in isolation.
Standards-based connectivityBuilt on common IoT protocols so it fits into an existing stack.
Compact generative models — language and multimodal — sized to run entirely on-device, so generative capability doesn't have to mean a permanent cloud dependency.
Runs fully localGeneration happens on-device, with no dependency on a live connection to a cloud model.
Compact footprintModels sized to fit the memory and compute budget of an edge device.
Lower latency, lower costNo per-query network round trip and no ongoing inference-hosting bill.
Private by defaultPrompts and outputs never have to leave the device unless a use case explicitly needs them to.