Our Mission
Our mission is to give machines a genuine situational understanding—so that in a complex world, they don't just react, but recognize what is important right now and act accordingly.

anima:machina develops an AI architecture that enables machines to maintain situational awareness in complex, dynamic scenarios. If a child cries in the kitchen while someone shouts and a glass shatters in the next room, a system needs to identify what matters most right now. anima evaluates such events in context, sets priorities, and continuously adapts its behavior to the overall situation. Our product is the software architecture. It is manufacturer-independent and can be integrated into various robotics and embodied AI systems. It is developed and tested on our own humanoid robotics demonstrator in Munich. Our customers are companies developing robots or other embodied AI systems that require an architecture uniting states, events, and goals—for instance, for safe human-machine interaction, autonomous decision-making, or the early detection of critical situations.
Our mission is to give machines a genuine situational understanding—so that in a complex world, they don't just react, but recognize what is important right now and act accordingly.
A future where machines understand their situation, enabling them to interact naturally, safely, and autonomously with humans and their environment. anima aims to become the foundational architecture for this.