Perception
Connect cameras, microphones, sensors and external perception models to a shared live interaction state.
IronHeart.AIpatent pendingIronHeart.AI / Cognitive Runtime 01
BRING ROBOTS
TO LIFE.
Cognitive runtime infrastructure for physical AI—integrating perception, real-time voice conversation, persistent memory, personality, neuroscience-based gaze coordination and actions.
RUNTIME ACTIVEPERCEPTION / MEMORY / ACTION
CLOUD APIEDGE & OFFLINEPRIVATE CLOUD
The missing layer
Robots can move.
We make them relate.
Hardware, locomotion and task models do not create believable social interaction. IronHeart coordinates the signals between what a robot perceives, remembers, says, looks at and does.
Not another chatbot inside a robot. A continuous cognitive loop built for embodiment.01Perception
02Realtime voice
03Persistent memory
04Personality
05Gaze coordination
06Actions
FOUNDATION MODEL FORSOCIAL
INTERACTION
INTERACTION
Realtime voice
Low-latency, interruptible conversation with natural turn-taking and multilingual behavior.
Persistent memory
Carry user, session and entity context across interactions instead of resetting after every encounter.
Personality
Give each robot a stable identity, role, tone, behavioral boundaries and relationship continuity.
Gaze coordination
Coordinate attention, speech and gaze using neuroscience-informed interaction patterns.
Actions
Turn intent into physical or digital execution through robot controls, tools, workflows and APIs.
CAPTCHA / SCHOOL FIELD CASEA European premiere in embodied education
Built in the real world
A classroom is not a demo environment.
IronHeart has been developed through real robots, live conferences, education settings and noisy public environments—where latency, interruptions, attention and connectivity become product requirements.
In April 2026, Hidoba Research took part in a European premiere at Willms-Gymnasium in Delmenhorst, Germany: Captcha, a humanoid robot powered by IronHeart, conducted a simulation of the school’s Abitur oral examinations with real students.
EXAMINERAsked questions, interpreted answers and generated adaptive follow-ups during the live oral exam.
1−Miriam Hollmann’s biology result—independently reached by Captcha and confirmed by the human teacher.
SOBER FEEDBACKStudents and educators found the robot technically competent and conversationally adaptive, while describing the experience in measured terms.
Why the complete Cognitive System matters
Read the complete field case →This kind of work requires perception to follow the student, realtime voice to conduct the exchange, memory to preserve the exam thread, personality to maintain the examiner role, gaze coordination to direct attention and actions to ask follow-ups and produce a structured outcome.
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PHYSICAL AI / FIELD TESTFrom conversation to embodied action
CES / Las Vegas
The exhibition floor became the test.
At CES in Las Vegas, Captcha operated as an autonomous social robot in a live public environment—moving through the exhibition space, approaching visitors, introducing itself and holding spontaneous conversations.
The important behavior appeared between the conversations. When a visitor did not answer or ignored the approach, IronHeart treated the absence of engagement as a social signal. Captcha could adjust its timing, try a different prompt or disengage and continue through the space instead of repeating a fixed script.
MOTIONNavigated the active exhibition environment while remaining available for interaction.
INITIATIVEApproached visitors, introduced itself and started conversations without a staged operator script.
NO RESPONSERecognized missing engagement and changed the next conversational behavior rather than looping.
From conversation to embodied action
Perception detects people and attention. Realtime voice opens and sustains the exchange. Memory preserves the encounter. Personality determines how Captcha introduces itself. Gaze signals who it is addressing. Actions connect the interaction to autonomous movement—one continuous Cognitive Runtime operating in the physical world.
Deploy on your terms
One runtime.
Three deployment paths.
Start with the managed API, move interaction-critical paths to the edge, or run inside private infrastructure. The runtime adapts to the product—not the other way around.
Cloud API
Prototype and launch connected products quickly.
- Managed runtime
- Fastest integration
- Usage-based API plans
Edge & offline
Keep critical interaction available when networks are slow or unavailable.
- Device-local paths
- Low-latency operation
- Custom license
Private cloud
Deploy inside customer-controlled infrastructure for sensitive environments.
- Data control
- Custom model stack
- Enterprise agreement
For OEMs & system integrators
Your robot.
Its own mind.
IronHeart replaces one-size-fits-all behavior with a runtime configured for each embodiment, environment and commercial role.
Ship differentiated intelligence with the hardware.
Embed persistent personality, voice, memory and social behavior across a product line.
Build vertical solutions without rebuilding cognition.
Configure knowledge, policies, actions and deployment for healthcare, education, retail, hospitality and public services.
ROBOT-AGNOSTIC RUNTIMEOne cognitive layer across bodies, sensors and environments.
Integration path
From robot platform to living product.
We work alongside your engineering team from evaluation through fleet deployment.
01Connect perception
02Define personality
03Map gaze & voice
04Connect actions
05Validate on embodiment
06Deploy & monitor
ironheart.runtime / robot_profileCONNECTED
interaction: "persistent"
perception: [vision, audio, proximity]
voice: { realtime: true, interruptions: true }
memory: { user: true, entity: true }
gaze: { coordination: "adaptive" }
actions: [gesture, navigate, tools]Cloud API pricing
Start building now.
These plans cover the managed realtime API. Edge, offline, private cloud and OEM production licensing are scoped separately.
Starter
$100/ month
Early robot prototypes and API validation.
- 2,000 credits included
- Approximately 20 hours conversation
- Extra usage $4.00/hour
- 30 cloned / 3 premium voices
- 1 GB knowledge storage
- RAG texting & dialogue analysis
Standard
$300/ month
Customer-facing pilots and recurring deployments.
- 10,000 credits included
- Approximately 100 hours conversation
- Extra usage $2.50/hour
- 100 cloned / 10 premium voices
- 5 GB knowledge storage
- RAG texting & dialogue analysis
Scale
$900/ month
High-volume voice and robotics applications.
- 45,000 credits included
- Approximately 450 hours conversation
- Extra usage $2.00/hour
- 500 cloned / 50 premium voices
- 15 GB knowledge storage
- RAG texting & dialogue analysis
Production partnerships
OEM, edge & private deployments
Architecture workshop, integration support, model and data controls, custom runtime configuration, fleet scaling and commercial licensing.
Why this layer matters
The next platform opportunity sits between AI models and machines.
Reusable software across embodiments
The cognitive layer can power different robot bodies, device classes and vertical products.
State creates differentiation
Memory, personality and coordinated behavior turn commodity intelligence into a durable product experience.
Multiple revenue paths
Cloud usage, production integration, edge licensing and private infrastructure serve different stages of the robotics market.
Build with IronHeart
What should your robot become?
Tell us about the platform, use case and deployment environment. We’ll map the fastest route from evaluation to production.
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