Company / Berlin
The next major frontier of AI is physical.
Software has learned to understand language, images and complex information. The physical world is harder: it is continuous, uncertain and shaped by contact, materials, people and changing conditions. Most valuable human work still depends on skills that machines cannot reliably generalize.
GappAI exists to close that gap through one learning loop: Capture structures human expertise and robot experience; Skills turns that evidence into reusable intelligence and IP; Workforce deploys it through customer-owned, investor-owned or GappAI-managed robots and returns new operational learning.
We capture skilled work, translate perception and action into reusable machine skills, and operate those skills across robotic platforms. Every deployment should make the system safer, more capable and more valuable.
We envision Physical AI as essential infrastructure: organisations contract for reliable robotic capacity while GappAI coordinates intelligence, platforms, fleets and continuous improvement under European expectations for safety, trust and responsibility.
Corporate charter / GappAI GmbH
GappAI's corporate purpose is structured for the full Physical AI lifecycle—from research and data to robotic operations, intellectual property, partnerships and international scale.
Research, design, direct or partner-led manufacturing, integration, testing, operation, sale, distribution, marketing and licensing of software, AI models, hardware, systems, platforms and products across artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, automation and data processing—supported by engineering, consulting, development, implementation, maintenance, technical support and training.
Acquire, rent, import, export, sell, lease, install, integrate, commission, operate and maintain humanoid, industrial, mobile and service robots, components, sensors, control systems, data-capture devices and computing hardware. GappAI may provide systems for customer use, manage them on-site or remotely, operate robot fleets and deliver time-, usage- or performance-based robotics services.
Capture, generate, acquire, process, annotate and analyze training and operating data from human movement, professional activities, workflows, robot demonstrations, teleoperation and real robot operations. Subject to usage rights and data-protection requirements, GappAI may create, use, provide, commercialize and license datasets for training, evaluation and continued development.
Develop AI models, control software and reusable robot skills for robot learning, task planning, perception, motion and manipulation; adapt, transfer, license and implement them across platforms from different manufacturers. GappAI may build and operate simulation, digital-twin, synthetic-data, testing, validation, data-management and robot-management environments.
Acquire, develop, protect, use, transfer and license patents, software, know-how, designs and other intellectual-property and industrial-property rights connected with GappAI's work; conduct technology transfer, contract research and development, and joint product development.
Conduct research, development, education, technology-transfer, pilot, demonstration and commercialization projects in Germany and internationally with universities, research institutions, technology companies, government bodies, public institutions, municipalities and other private or public organizations; form cooperation agreements, join consortia and joint projects, and participate in public and private tenders.
Apply for and use national and international public or private grants, research and innovation funding, project finance and other program-based funding for GappAI's own activities and projects. This scope does not include managing third-party funds or providing regulated financial services.
Establish or acquire companies, hold and manage investments, form joint ventures and act as a general partner in Germany or internationally. GappAI may establish branches, representative offices, operating sites and research, development, data-capture, testing and application centers, including beyond businesses with the same or a similar purpose.
Participate as an entity within a tax-group structure and, where duly authorized, enter into control and profit-transfer agreements as part of the company's long-term corporate architecture.
Undertake activities requiring authorization, approval or professional registration only after the relevant conditions have been met. Robot and equipment rental covers use together with associated technical and operational services; regulated financial-leasing business is excluded.
Operating Structure
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Explore our operating structureGappAI Discovery / Education for the next generation
Germany’s future capacity to innovate also depends on the opportunities young people have to explore technology. As a technology company based in Berlin, GappAI wants to contribute its engineering expertise to that shared educational task.
The programme is intended for children and young people in Germany, whatever their background. By exploring how people demonstrate, test and improve a robot skill, learners can discover the role of software and the people behind it. Our aim is to encourage curiosity, critical questions and confidence to pursue their own ideas.
The programme plans to demonstrate skills developed and validated by GappAI on a robot platform owned by GappAI. Students will explore how human knowledge is translated, through software and training, into a task a robot can perform.
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Understand. Question. Create.
Launch planned for 2027, subject to the necessary conditions being met and applications being suitable for the programme. No participation fee for schools or students.
Robotics adoption is accelerating, yet general-purpose Physical AI remains at the beginning. Today's systems are strongest in structured environments. The larger opportunity lies in the variable, fragmented and skill-intensive work that still depends on people.
These signals inform our direction: Europe has world-class industrial depth, research institutions and public infrastructure. It also has a strategic opportunity to convert that strength into deployable Physical AI.
Built in Berlin
Berlin places GappAI at the intersection of engineering, scientific research, industrial transformation and public policy. From here, we intend to build partnerships across Germany and Europe with research institutions, manufacturers, infrastructure operators, municipalities and technology partners.
Our objective is not to reproduce a single machine. It is to own the intelligence, deployment and operating layer that allows different machines to learn useful work—and enables customers to use robotic capacity without becoming robotics companies themselves.
We approach Physical AI as both a scientific and an engineering problem. Progress must be measurable in the lab, credible in simulation and dependable in the field.
We optimize for useful work, repeatability and field performance—not isolated demonstrations.
Capabilities are evaluated against clear tasks, operating conditions and failure modes.
Hardware, software, human oversight and deployment procedures are treated as one system.
Skills should transfer across robots, tools, environments and sectors wherever the physics allows.
Distinct paths to engage
Commercial and operational work begins through the GappAI Readiness Check, Physical AI Pilot and operating model. Research and academic collaboration is organised separately through GappAI Labs and Academic Partnerships. This keeps customer deployment, scientific work and public claims accountable to their own scope.
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