A Letterkenny-based company is working with partners to bring practical humanoid robotics into real-world operations.
This start-up company, called Mirality, is focusing on sectors where labour shortages are already there, areas like food processing, industrial cleaning and packaging and where AI-powered humanoid robots can really come into their own.
Most robots look impressive in demos but struggle in real workplaces because real environments are variable, messy, and hard to simulate. Mirality closes this gap by keeping humans in the loop for reliability and safety, then using operational data to progressively train Vision-Language-Action models for task-specific autonomy.
Based in the CoLab at ATU Donegal in Letterkenny, the company is currently involved in a number of pilot projects, and is also in the process of raising funding. Indeed, they want to engage with more businesses who can see the potential, and they have high hopes that they can create significant employment in Donegal.
Recently the company held a launch evening in the Kinnegar Brewery to give people a real insight into what they are doing, and there was also a demo with the robots.
For more, see this link: Robot Demonstration at launch event in Kinnegar Brewery, Letterkenny
Chris Ashmore has been speaking with Mirality’s Chief Technical Operations Officer, Steven Boylan, who hails from Derry, but first he has been getting the views of the company founder, Spanish native Juan Leandro.
Meanwhile, there was more good news for Mirality. Just days after the launch event and the recording of this piece, the company won the TechTides “Pitch Your Start-up” competition in Belfast, and collected the first prize of €3,500.
