Hitting a New Octave, Hexagon Splits Into Two Separate Companies

Hexagon, the Sweden-based geospatial measurement, monitoring, development and design software program firm stated it plans to spin off a number of enterprise items—together with its Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division and CAD design device Bricsys—right into a standalone firm referred to as Octave.

If authorised by shareholders, regulators and board members, the devoted software program and cloud software-as-a-service spinoff firm is anticipated to launch within the first half of 2026 based mostly in New York Metropolis as a U.S. firm. Hexacon’s security, infrastructure and geospatial items may also be a part of Octave, which is about to have about 7,200 staff coming from Hexagon. The spinoff was introduced June 17 at a Hexagon convention in Las Vegas,

“As we put together for the potential separation from Hexagon AB, Octave will probably be a robust id to mirror the numerous development alternative,” stated Mattias Stenberg, president of Hexagon’s asset lifecycle intelligence and security, Iinfrastructure and geospatial divisions who wil be Octave CEO. “As a separate, standalone firm, Octave can have the depth, scale and experience essential to capitalize on software program and providers alternatives throughout the commercial and public sector areas and ship intelligence at scale.”

Stenberg stated the brand new agency’s management group will stay at Hexagon’s present Hunstville, Ala., location.

Henning Sandfort, president of Hexaon’s geosysystems division who stays in that position, stated the father or mother firm’s imaginative and prescient continues to be in merging information from scanners, drones, radar and its different geosystems’ units into one synthetic intelligence-empowered platform resembling its current HxDR cloud.

To that finish, Arnaud Robert, president of Hexagon Robotics, launched the corporate’s first humanoid-form robotic, Aeon, on the Las Vegas occasion.

The robotic, whose use circumstances embrace actuality seize for development, stands about 4 ft tall, has two full AI computer systems, NVIDIA graphics processing items, two cameras within the head alone and 22 spatial sensors. Whereas Boston Dynamics assisted in its design, Aeon is a bipedal robotic with wheels for toes that it could actually use for both rolling or strolling. The robotic’s arms developed from designs for dexterous prosthetic arms for people who’ve had amputations. Microsoft offered cloud and edge computing and Maxon offered precision measurement and actuators. 

Whereas many robots have tried to resolve the development actuality seize downside—lengthy finished inconsistently by people, Hexagon believes its humanoid is an enchancment over robotic canines or drones as a result of it has two batteries and the power to swap out its personal battery packs with out human intervention.  

Robert stated Aeon’s capacity to study may also assist it enhance in performing development duties.

“The tempo of innovation in bodily AI is getting higher,” he stated. “Foundational fashions educate a robotic the way to motive and study.”