Foundation models for extreme-purpose robotics.
Vertex is building toward the model layer for robots that support firefighters, combat medics, search-and-rescue crews, and field operators in environments where every additional second of human presence matters.
Company fact sheet
Approach
Train one foundation model on large-scale sensorimotor data (teleop, motion capture, simulation rollouts). Apply the recipes that built foundation models in language and vision to produce policies that generalize across embodiments. Operate from first principles — we don’t copy architecture choices because they worked somewhere else.
Safety posture
Before any deployment, Vertex requires an independent safety layer, a real-time human-override path the policy cannot disable, staged real-world validation, and independent review at each gate. These are pre-deployment requirements, not claims of a currently fielded implementation.