Startups
The startups founded at Firmamento, and the projects in the works.
Two are already startups, each with its own product online. Five are in the works: projects with a field, a website and people working on them. Each one can give rise to a startup.
Startups · Customs classification
From a photo of the goods, or a two-line description, Varco finds the customs code with AI and justifies it in the words of the law: section and chapter notes, General Rules of Interpretation, precedents.
It compares each case with 122,874 binding EU rulings and 795 judgments of the Court of Justice. When the data isn't enough, it asks a question instead of guessing.
Fausto Capello, a lawyer and customs broker, brought the problem and joined as a shareholder. The project is led by Emanuele Giordano.
Already online.
Startups · Aesthetic medicine
It uses AI to automate documentation in aesthetic medicine practices, starting with the clinical record: the medical history is dictated during the consultation, treated areas are marked on a map of the face, and the product and batch stay linked to the session.
For each procedure it prepares the consent form with that procedure's risks and alternatives: 115 already have their own template. Every change to the record is logged and cannot be rewritten.
It was co-founded by Pietro Garbarino, an aesthetic doctor who had the problem.
Being tested in a medical practice.
In the works
The fields we already work in. Each one has its own name and website, and each one can give rise to a startup.
In the works · Fluid dynamics
Gradient Numerics
Fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics and heat transfer simulation for anyone with a design decision to make: hulls, wings, flow noise, electronics cooling.
Each result comes with its deviation from an experimental measurement. On the DARPA SUBOFF submarine, a public test case, the computed drag is within 2.2% of the towing-tank value. What to compare it with is chosen before calculating, and at the end the settings and residuals are delivered, so the calculation can be checked.
It is run by Sebastiano Raggi, a mechanical engineer, and Edoardo Maestri, a master's student in aeronautical engineering.
In the works · Drones
Boxy
Boxy is a box-wing drone with three tilting rotors: it takes off vertically, then the rotors tilt forward and the wing takes the weight. It is built to stay over an area for whole shifts: surveying and mapping, wildfires, searching for missing people, radio relay.
It weighs 25 kilos and has a 3-metre wingspan. Calculations give 4 hours of flight for the electric version and 22 for the hybrid; the next step is the first flight. What is sold is flight hours, not the aircraft.
Four people from the University of Genoa's drone team work on it.
In the works · Robotics
Collimo
Machine vision software for robotic cells: it tells the robot where to grip the part and the line what to reject. The model is trained on real parts and runs inside the plant, not in the cloud.
It works for system integrators: a confidentiality agreement is signed before the drawing is opened, and the model, data and code stay with whoever commissions them.
It is still a Firmamento project and has no clients to show, so the first assessment of a case is free.
It is run by Emanuele Giordano.
In the works · Software and AI
Backoffice.ai
AI software for repetitive office work: supplier invoices, delivery notes, bank reconciliations, contracts, expense claims, tenders.
When a figure doesn't add up, the system stops and asks a person instead of guessing. The work starts by measuring one process; the data stays in Europe and the code belongs to whoever commissions it.
In the works · 3D printing
Nodo
It designs and 3D prints functional parts: spare parts that can no longer be found, brackets, enclosures, mechanisms.
When there is no drawing, Nodo takes the shape from the part itself, with a 3D scanner or by measuring it. Besides PLA, PETG, ABS and TPU it prints engineering polymers such as PA6, PA12, PPA, PPS and PP filled with carbon or glass fiber, which in some cases replace aluminum.
It is run by Giacomo Pandolfo from his workshop in Isola del Cantone.
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