Robots to prepare for work at ‘Europe’s largest training facility for humanoid robots’

Humanoid robots will prepare for the world of work in a giant new ‘physical AI’ factory, their developers have claimed.

Designed to move bots from lab demonstrations to reliable industrial deployment while also advancing “European humanoid sovereignty”, plans for three new facilities were announced by robotics company Generative Bionics at CES Unveiled Milan today (21 October).

The first 5,000-square-metre hub, planned for Italy and scheduled to be operational by the end of 2027, will reproduce real industrial environments for the company’s Gene.01 robot. Vision and motion sensors, as well as touch signals captured through the robot’s ‘multimodal skin’, will generate physical data that will be connected to a large-scale digital-twin simulation. 

“Large language models learn from vast amounts of information available online. Humanoid robots have no comparable source of data on how to act in the physical world. The Data Factory will create it by collecting data as Gene.01 performs industrial tasks and expanding those experiences through digital-twin simulations powered by AMD compute,” a Generative Bionics announcement said.

The Data Factory will be used to configure and validate Gene.01 for specific industrial environments before customer deployment, then feed data from deployed fleets into future training cycles. 

“Industrial humanoids must learn from the conditions they will encounter at work. This requires data that captures contact, force, motion, proximity, temperature, task constraints and human interaction in realistic operating environments. For Gene.01, the dataset will include vision and motion data as well as signals captured through its full-body multimodal skin,” the announcement said.

CEO Daniele Pucci said: “We are replicating the world, physically and digitally, to train humanoid robots at scale before they ever enter it. The Physical AI Data Factory is how we do it: fleets of Gene.01 learn from real industrial work, we stress-test those skills across thousands of digital-twin variations on AMD compute, and we return validated world action models to the field… we are building this network here in Europe, so that the data, the models and the infrastructure behind our industrial humanoids are developed and operated on the continent.” 

The Data Factory network will be powered by AI system AMD Helios, providing the compute foundation to process physical and synthetic data, train physical AI models and run thousands of digital twin scenarios in parallel.  

“Our collaboration with Generative Bionics marks an important step in advancing European AI and industrial sovereignty, enabling the development and deployment of next-generation intelligent robotics applications while strengthening Europe’s capacity to innovate,” said Keith Strier, senior vice-president for global AI markets at AM.

The Italian facility will be followed by another one in Europe, and a third serving global markets. Professional Engineering has contacted Generative Bionics for more information.