The next leap in
robotic intelligence
We reinvented the VLAM for industry.
One core for any robot and any task. Words in, continuous control out. Low-level motion in real time at your site.
Introducing Cortex: A Foundation for General Robotic Intelligence
The robotics industry is at a turning point. Rigid pipelines and task-specific programming no longer scale in the face of operational complexity, domain shifts, and hardware diversity. What's needed is not brittle automation—but general intelligence.
Cortex is Sereact's general-purpose Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. It unifies perception, reasoning, and control in a single system—trained on the largest real-world robotics dataset ever assembled. Cortex delivers zero-shot capabilities across robotic arms, mobile manipulators, and humanoids.
From logistics to manufacturing, Cortex is powering the next wave of intelligent, adaptable, and production-grade robots – and already deployed in 100+ real-world systems.
From Hardcoding to Physical AI
Legacy automation is rule-based and brittle. Cortex replaces traditional pipelines with a unified system that learns from demonstrations and real operations, generalizes across tasks, and executes without reprogramming or task-specific logic. At scale, it enables zero-shot bin picking, robust recovery from edge cases, and seamless transfer across hardware with no fine-tuning.
Built on Real-World Scale
What makes Cortex special is that it learns from live operations, not just simulation. Its dataset spans thousands of hours of industrial activity: multi-modal sensor streams (RGB, depth, videos, proprioception), tele-operated and autonomous episodes, human and VLM-generated instructions, and fine-grained failure and recovery traces. This scale and specificity unlock grounded generalization. Cortex doesn't just mimic how tasks should work — it understands how they succeed and fail in real production.
Why Cortex Is Different
Low-level intelligence
Breaks tasks into motion, contact, and recovery in real time with live perception.
Teach by language or demo
Update behavior with natural language or guided motions—no scripts, no rules.
Resilient in production
Blacklists risky SKUs, routes around hazards, and auto-repicks when uncertain.
Adaptable & production-ready
Runs across putwalls, conveyors, AMRs, AutoStore, and more—hardware-agnostic, WMS integrated, operator-friendly.
How Cortex works
Mixture of Experts Vision Language Model
Transforms multimodal data into structured tasks with three outputs: subtasks, pixel-level actions, and grounding. A Mixture of Experts ensures scalable, low-latency specialization. Reinforcement alignment reduces hallucinations, while memory buffers improve robustness. The result: generalizable, interpretable, production-ready robotic intelligence.
Meta policy modulation layer
Coordinates reasoning and control for long-horizon tasks. Fuses multimodal inputs into a unified perception–plan–action loop. A Mixture of Experts predicts subtasks, grounding, and pixel actions, linking intent to execution. Actions are 2D pixel trajectories for transferability and reinforcement. Anticipates future states for robustness, while discrete token outputs align planning and acting with language for interpretability and generalization.
Low-Level Control Action Experts
Transforms Meta Policy outputs—subtasks, pixel actions, grounding—into coherent robot motion. Autoregressively generates action tokens for short trajectories, decoded into motor commands. Separate transformers handle modalities, with Mixture of Experts ensuring low-latency scalability. Flow Matching improves training over diffusion. Real-time feedback ensures smooth execution, constraints prevent unsafe states, calibration-free motion handles camera shifts, and historic smoothing reduces jerk.
Intelligence that scales
Robust edge case handling
Cortex handles materials and scenes that break classical pipelines.
- Transparent and reflective packaging like shrink wrap and blister packs
- Deformables such as clothing, bags and cables where contact dynamics matter
- Partial occlusions where identity and grasp need inference
- Unexpected perturbations like drops or slips that trigger autonomous replanning
- Ambiguous instructions where intent is inferred from context
What you can expect
Cortex delivers functional autonomy in hours, not weeks. It executes core workflows like bin picking, sorting and placement without retraining or manual calibration. In customer deployments we have brought systems online and made them production ready in less than a day. The result is faster ROI and lower total cost to deploy.
Higher from day one success rates
More completed picks, fewer stoppages, smoother shifts.
Robust performance on messy work
Takes on unstructured tasks that used to need manual intervention.
integrated stack
Deploy complex workflows without custom pipelines or brittle scripts.
Faster changes without code
Adjust behaviour in plain language. Teach a new motion once, save it, move on.
Fits your site
Works with your robots, WMS and safety standards.
Where Cortex drives value
Structuredindustries
In sectors like automotive and electronics, many steps are already automated. Cortex fills the gaps that remain, where contact-rich dexterity and fast recovery matter.
Unstructuredindustries
In logistics and retail, processes are structured but items are not. Diversity, deformability and surprise kill brittle systems. Cortex thrives in that mix, which is why pick and place, returns and bagging are early winners.
Why teams choose Sereact
Grounded in real operations
Live deployments and continuous feedback give Cortex the data that matters most.
Deployment experience
We integrate, commission and train operators to keep uptime high.
Better eyes and hands
In-house Lens vision and our adaptive suction gripper with millisecond tool switching deliver precision and speed.
Fits your hardware
Hardware agnostic across all major robot brands and common warehouse systems including AutoStore ports, conveyors, AMRs and lifts.
FAQ
Can we change behaviour without code
Does it work with our robots
How does it handle fragile or odd items
What about safety and compliance
One brain for any robot and any task.