The market
The moment is now — and the layer that puts robots to work is missing.
Capital is flowing to the 'brains' (foundation models) and hardware. But a brain is not a worker: between model and operations, what's missing is what decides, coordinates and recovers on real fleets. VALIS aims to be that layer — and benefits from the model boom instead of competing with it.
Record capital
flowing into Physical AI in 2025–26
Value is shifting
from hardware to software
Europe
an emerging hub for orchestration
Illustrative / context — not financial figures.
Why this team
The combination Physical AI is missing.
Physical AI is polarized: those who master AI rarely master robotics, and vice versa. We bring both together — applied AI (Fusion AI Labs) and frontier robotics (University of Genoa) — with a joint team that understands what's truly missing.
Fusion AI Labs
Applied AI & go-to-market
University of Genoa
Frontier robotics & continuous research
190+ publications
peer-reviewed, with patents and spin-offs
Robotics partners
Robot-agnostic, with access to frontier hardware.
VALIS is built to orchestrate any robot, from any vendor — that is the whole point of an orchestration layer. Partnerships with international robot makers confirm that robot-agnostic positioning and give us direct access to frontier hardware for integration, testing and pilots.
Unitree
Quadrupeds and humanoids
LymX
Frontier robotics manufacturer
Research
Built on published, peer-reviewed work.
Selected publications from the group, mapped to the pillars of VALIS.
The layer is missing. We're building it.
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