en.Wedoany.com Reported - Polish robotics company Nomagic recently announced that it has deployed a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model in its paying customers' warehouses, successfully reducing the number of required human interventions by approximately half. The company claims this makes it one of the first enterprises to run VLA models in actual production, rather than just in demonstrations.
Nomagic's European headquarters is located in Warsaw, Poland, with its U.S. base in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Earlier this year, the company established an AI research lab and hired Markus Wulfmeier, a former Google DeepMind researcher and core member of the Gemini Robotics team, as Chief Scientist. VLA is a single model capable of recognizing objects, understanding natural language instructions, and performing corresponding actions, representing a direction in embodied AI pursued by many laboratories.
Unlike most companies in the industry racing to build a universal robot brain, Nomagic chose to first master a single task with its model before gradually expanding to a general system. Chief Scientist Wulfmeier explained that the physical world contains a vast number of rare situations, causing models trained solely through simulation or remote control to achieve only about 80% accuracy—a level insufficient for real-world warehouse needs. Nomagic acknowledges that its VLA model's standalone success rate has not yet reached 99.9%, so it wraps the model in older "classic" software to catch errors and ensure safety. Co-founder and CEO Kacper Nowicki stated that 99.9% reliability is the threshold for robots to be allowed into actual buildings, and the company has met this requirement from day one by building a "harness" while allowing its internal AI to continuously improve.
The company believes its advantage comes from real-world data. Its deployed robot fleet completes millions of picks each month, with fashion platform Zalando alone contributing 2 million picks. Nomagic uses real-time data streams rather than simulated data to train its VLA model. The model's first deployment was at Brack.Alltron, Switzerland's second-largest e-commerce platform. Founder Roland Brack noted that the robots can now truly understand their environment, enabling autonomous, unattended shifts at night and on Sundays. Co-founder Tristan d’Orgeval emphasized that the company did not build a lab first and then look for problems; the order determines the difference between a demonstration and commercialization.
