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PI Project's applied research

A focused research arm working on hard problems in AI, sensing and embedded systems, for civil and defence use, developed in Europe.

Our research

The problems we chose to focus on

Alongside the products we ship, we keep a research arm focused on problems that are hard on purpose: those where the state of the art is still moving and the result is worth owning. Our products integrate generative AI; part of this research works one level down, on the mechanisms of generation and reasoning themselves. The list stays deliberately short, worked in depth and under real engineering constraints; the three themes below are where that effort goes today.

Method

Three rules the work runs under

Bench before field

Concepts are checked against physics and against real components early, on a bench. Walls are cheaper to hit in a rig than after deployment.

Dated from the first day

Research is recorded and dated as it happens, so anteriority is established from the earliest stage rather than reconstructed later.

Including the dead ends

Research runs against acceptance criteria set before the run, and the outcomes are written up whichever way they fall: the dead ends to the same standard as the successes. The notes below hold both kinds.

Dual use, by design

Where a problem serves civil life and defence alike, we design it as dual-use; where it is squarely a defence capability, we build it as one. Field applicability, operational robustness and ethical constraints are written into the specification with the first prototype.

Research notes

Notes, including the dead ends

Not every line of research becomes a pillar. Some we pushed until they gave a clear answer, including the answer that something does not work and exactly why. We write those up too.

Discuss a research problem with us

If one of these problems is yours, or close to it, we are open to focused conversations with partners, integrators and public bodies.

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