Cortexist · embedded intelligence

A cortex for every machine.

We put sight, hearing and a voice into robots and automated machinery, on the small, low-power computers they already carry. Nothing waits on a data centre.

The lawn mower that answers you from twenty yards away, in a whole sentence, is the kind of thing we are building.

little-gemma on GitHub models on Hugging Face

C1, a research head with expressive eyes, front view — C1 · research platform for expressive eyes and spoken conversation. Early, and not for sale.

sight

Eyes that look with intent. Cameras and the mechanics around them, tuned for what a machine actually needs to notice.

voice

Conversation at the pace of speech. Listening, thinking and answering on the device, so the reply arrives while it still matters.

small brains

Jetson-class hardware and our own inference engine. A few watts, no round trip to a cloud, and the data stays on the machine.

open work

github.com/cortexist/little-gemmalittle-gemma, our inference engine for small models on edge hardware.
huggingface.co/cortexistModels and weights we publish.
x.com/cortexistShort updates from the bench.
reddit.com/user/cortexistLonger notes and discussion.