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Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

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Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind researcher, is betting on mastery before generality.

A Polish robotics company has quietly done the thing most robot labs are still demoing. Nomagic says it has deployed a vision-language-action (VLA) model into live warehouses with paying customers, Fortune reports. It says the move cut robot-caused human interventions by about half. The firm claims it is among the first to run VLAs in real production, not a staged demo.

Nomagic keeps its European headquarters in Warsaw and a US base in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Earlier this year it started an AI research lab. It hired Markus Wulfmeier as chief scientist. He is a former Google DeepMind researcher and a core...

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