Ontic Labs is developing a model designed to help machines understand physical contexts. While today’s AI models primarily focus on capturing what the world looks like, Ontic Labs’ technology seeks to learn how it works; this will enable its robots to interact in more complex ways with their environment. “We’re developing a foundational model that learns how the world works physically from videos and experiences. Our goal is to be able to train robots using this model,” says Georg Martius, co-founder of Ontic Labs and University of Tübingen professor. “This will lay the groundwork for more versatile robotic systems that can be deployed in a wide variety of fields in the future.”
Ontic Labs GmbH
Founders: Dr. Omid Taheri, Mikel Zhobro, Dr. Wieland Brendel, Prof. Dr. Georg Martius, Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll
Participating institutions: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science cluster of excellence and AI Center Tübingen (both University of Tübingen), ELLIS Institute Tübingen