Hitting a New Octave, Hexagon Splits Into Two Separate Companies

On June 17 at its Hexagon Reside convention in Las Vegas, Sweden-based geospatial measurement, monitoring, building and design software program firm Hexagon introduced plans to spin off a number of of its enterprise models—together with its Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division and CAD design software Bricsys—into a brand new standalone firm known as Octave.

If accepted by shareholders, regulators and Hexagon’s board, the devoted software program and cloud software-as-a-service firm is anticipated to launch within the first half of 2026 and be headquartered in New York and listed as a U.S. firm. Its security, infrastructure and geospatial enterprise can even be part of Octave. It is estimated the brand new entity could have about 7,200 staff coming over from Hexagon.

“As we put together for the potential separation from Hexagon AB, Octave might be a robust identification to mirror the numerous progress alternative,” mentioned Mattias Stenberg, president of Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence and Security, Infrastructure and Geospatial divisions and incoming Octave chief government officer. “As a separate, stand-alone firm, Octave could have the depth, scale and experience essential to capitalize on software program and companies alternatives throughout the economic and public sector areas and ship intelligence at scale.”

Stenberg mentioned he and the management workforce will stay at Hexagpon’s Hunstville, Ala., workplace though the brand new firm’s official headquarters is anticipated to not less than initially be in New York.

Henning Sandfort, president of Hexaon’s geosysystems division—and who will stay in that position at Hexagon after Octave’s launch—mentioned the elder firm’s imaginative and prescient continues to be to merge knowledge from scanners, drones, radar and its different geosystems’ units into one synthetic intelligence-empowered platform resembling its present HxDR cloud.

To that finish, Arnaud Robert, president of Hexagon Robotics, launched the corporate’s first humanoid-form robotic, Aeon, in the identical at keynote the Fontainebleau Resort on the Las Vegas strip. 

The robotic, whose use circumstances embrace actuality seize for building, stands about 4 ft tall, has two full AI computer systems, NVIDIA graphics processing models
with NVIDIA graphics processing unit, two cameras within the head alone and 22 spatial sensors. Whereas Boston Dynamics assisted within the design, Aeon is a bipedal robotic with wheels for ft that it may possibly both roll or stroll with. The robotic’s fingers got here from designs for dexterous prosthetic fingers for people who’ve suffered amputations. Microsoft supplied cloud and edge computing and Maxon supplied precision measurement and actuators. 

Whereas many robots have tried to unravel the development actuality seize drawback—notoriously carried out inconsistently by people who may probably be utilized higher in non-repetitive duties—Hexagon believes its humanoid has a leg up on robotic canine or drones as a result of it has two batteries and the power to swap out its personal battery packs with out people serving to. 

Robert mentioned its capability to study can even assist it get higher at building duties.

“The tempo of innovation in bodily AI is getting higher. Foundational fashions train a robotic motive and study,” he mentioned.