Volantyx Aerospace A Volantyx Aerospace company volantyx.com →
Distributed Physical Intelligence

Make any robot trustworthy.

Neurex is the autonomy runtime that sits between your AI and your actuators. It verifies every decision before it becomes physical action — so your robots can operate safely in unpredictable environments without constant human oversight.

Model-agnostic. Hardware-agnostic. Works with ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac, and OEM stacks.

APPLICATION / MISSIONINTENT
↓
AI / FOUNDATION MODELANY MODEL
↓
NEUREX ADAPTIVE POLICYSELECT
↓
NEUREX VERIFICATION GATEVERIFY
↓
NEUREX RUNTIME ASSURANCEASSURE
↓
ROS / ISAAC / OEM STACKEXECUTE
↓
ROBOT HARDWAREPHYSICAL
↑
PROVENANCE — EVIDENCE FLOWS UPPROVE
01 — The problem

Your AI is smart. But can you prove it's safe?

“Your robot works in the lab. It fails in the field.”

Novel situations, sensor degradation, unexpected humans, edge cases your training never covered. Capability doesn't generalize — and one surprise is all it takes.

“Regulators want evidence, not promises.”

The EU AI Act, ISO 10218, and ISO 3691-4 ask for traceable decision records and demonstrable safety architecture. Testing alone doesn't produce that evidence — architecture does.

“One incident kills your deployment.”

A single autonomous failure can shut down an entire fleet. Insurance, liability, customer trust — all of it rides on your worst decision, not your average one.

The bottleneck isn't capability. It's trust.

Warehouse AMR operating in a dark aisle — illustrative concept
Warehouse AMR under runtime governance · illustrative concept
02 — What we do

The trust layer between AI and action.

Neurex doesn't replace your AI. It governs what reaches the physical world.

Verify

Checked before it moves.

Every robot decision passes through deterministic admission checks before reaching actuators — grammar, bounds, authority, resource feasibility, proximity, contracts — in real time.

Assure

An independent safety boundary.

A runtime assurance layer monitors execution continuously and intervenes on any constraint violation — even if the primary AI stack fails completely. Assurance is independent from intelligence.

Prove

Complete accountability.

Every consequential action generates a tamper-evident record: what the robot perceived, believed, decided, verified, executed — and what happened next.

03 — How it works

Behaviors are contracts, not guesses.

Your foundation model — NVIDIA, OpenAI, proprietary, classical planner, or RL policy — perceives, reasons, and plans. Neurex governs the transition from inference to action: behaviors are declared with explicit preconditions, constraints, fallbacks, and authority levels, then verified before execution.

WORKS WITH  ROS 2 · NVIDIA Isaac · MoveIt · Nav2 · custom stacks
HARDWARE-AGNOSTIC  ·  MODEL-AGNOSTIC

patrol_sector_alpha.nx · verified
BEHAVIOR patrol_sector_alpha { PRECONDITION: battery > 20%, sector_clear = true CONSTRAINT: speed <= 1.5 m/s, human_distance >= 2.0m PRIMITIVE: navigate(waypoints_alpha) PRIMITIVE: observe(360, dwell=3s) FALLBACK: return_to_base() AUTHORITY: autonomous // within the human authority envelope VERIFICATION: Tier 1 + Tier 2 // real-time }
04 — The architecture

Authority flows down. Evidence flows up.

Neurex implements the eight layers of the DPI reference architecture. Intelligence is separated from authority: models recommend, the architecture decides what may act.

LAYER 7Human Authority EnvelopeWhat the system may do — explicitly granted, never assumed.
LAYER 6World ModelAn explicit, versioned representation of reality.
LAYER 5Belief EngineUncertainty, conflict, and ignorance represented explicitly.
LAYER 4Policy RetrievalProven behaviors preferred over novel ones.
LAYER 3Adaptive SynthesisNovel behaviors composed from certified primitives only.
LAYER 2Verification GateDeterministic admission before execution.
LAYER 1Runtime AssuranceAn independent safety boundary that can always intervene.
LAYER 0ProvenanceA tamper-evident record of every decision.

Retrieval before synthesis. Verification before action. Assurance independent from intelligence.

05 — Why this architecture

Trust the architecture, not the model.

Cloud AI

  • Centralized compute
  • Connectivity required
  • Recommendation engine
  • Trust the model
  • Fails when disconnected

Single-Agent Autonomy

  • Local compute
  • No fleet learning
  • Isolated decisions
  • Trust the training
  • Fails on novel situations

DPI · Neurex

  • Edge-native + fleet coordination
  • Safe when disconnected
  • Verified before action
  • Trust the architecture
  • Adapts within safety bounds
06 — The behavior library

The moat isn't the model. It's the library.

Every deployment adds verified, evidence-backed behaviors to a growing library. Each behavior carries its operational history — what worked, what failed, under what conditions, with what confidence. The library compounds into institutional memory for physical AI.

Security Pack
  • Patrol
  • Investigate anomaly
  • Human approach protocol
  • Comms loss
  • Multi-robot handoff
Warehouse Pack
  • Human crossing
  • Blocked aisle
  • Forklift interaction
  • Dropped load
  • Emergency evacuation
Industrial Pack
  • Dynamic exclusion zone
  • Worker proximity
  • Machinery interaction
  • Sensor degradation
Construction Pack
  • Unstable terrain
  • Visibility degradation
  • Heavy equipment coordination
  • Dynamic obstacles

EVERY BEHAVIOR CARRIES  specification · constraints · assumptions · verification artifacts · hardware requirements · operational evidence · version history · failure modes
Fleets improve together — without sharing raw operational data.

Autonomous security patrol robot — illustrative concept
Security patrol · illustrative concept
Industrial robot arm in an automated cell — illustrative concept
Industrial cell · illustrative concept
07 — The audit layer

The flight recorder for autonomous machines.

Deploy the Neurex audit layer on any robot — even without the full verification stack. Get complete decision records for every autonomous action, and satisfy regulators, insurers, and customers with evidence instead of promises.

Start here. Add verification and assurance when you're ready. It's the fastest path to value.

Every consequential action answers

  • What did the robot perceive?
  • What did it believe — and how confident was it?
  • What policy was selected, and what constraints applied?
  • What was verified before execution?
  • What action occurred — did assurance intervene?
  • What was the outcome?
08 — Why now

Three forces converging.

Force 01

Models can plan physical action.

Foundation models are now capable enough to plan physical actions — but ship with no safety governance between inference and actuation.

Force 02

Regulators are moving.

The EU AI Act (Articles 12, 14, 15), ISO 10218, ISO 3691-4, and FDA AI/ML guidance increasingly require architectural evidence — not just testing.

Force 03

Robotics is scaling.

Warehouse AMRs, security robots, autonomous vehicles, humanoids — the fleets are coming, and trust is the deployment bottleneck.

Robot OEMs
building autonomous products
Fleet operators
deploying robots at scale
System integrators
delivering in regulated environments
Safety teams
responsible for autonomous assurance
Insurers
pricing autonomous machine risk
09 — Published research

Read the research.

Two published papers define the stack: the DPI reference architecture — the vendor-neutral framework Neurex implements — and the Verified Behavior Library, the evidence-centered assurance architecture behind the library, from behavior objects and the verification gate to evidence maturity and the assurance graph.

August 2026. Architecture proposals — not certification standards, regulatory approvals, or guarantees of system safety.

A mixed fleet of autonomous robots — illustrative concept
One runtime across the fleet · AMR · quadruped · humanoid · illustrative concept
10 — Design partner program

Early access — Q4 2026.

We're working with select partners to validate Neurex across security robots, warehouse AMRs, and industrial mobile platforms. Limited spots available.

  • Full Neurex runtime integration
  • Dedicated engineering support
  • Custom behavior library development
  • Priority access to new capabilities
  • Co-development of safety profiles for your domain

Currently accepting design partners for Q4 2026 integration.