ferri

The Operating System for Physical AI

From Generative Pixels to Physical Atoms

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BITS

Generative Era

"Write me an email"
"Fix this bug"
"Summarize research"

ATOMS

Agentic Era

"Clean the kitchen"
"Assemble box"
"Handoff to the sorting arm"

The Void.

The Missing Bridge

Why robots are dumb & AI is dangerous.

  • The Brain (LLMs): Smart, but hallucinates. No physical safety.
  • The Body (Hardware): Precise, but rigid. No semantic understanding.
  • Core Message: ferri connects the Brain to the Body.

The Tower of Babel

Integration Hell.

  • Every sensor speaks a different language.
  • Engineers spend 80% of time on drivers, not intelligence.
  • ferri Solves This: Universal "Plug-and-Play" Drivers.

The Intelligent Director

Orchestrating reality.

  • Manage: The "Boss." Orchestrates workflows & memory.
  • Connect: Universal Adapter ($50 arm to $50k bot).
  • Act: Edge Intelligence & Safety.

Amnesia.

The Flight Recorder

Solving the 'Black Box' problem.

  • Persistent Memory: Remembers where it placed objects yesterday.
  • Audit Trails: Immutable logs for debugging and insurance.

Safety Reflexes

The Spinal Cord of the Robot.

  • Guardrails at the Edge: LLM says "Throw cup," ferri says "No."
  • Separates High-Level Reasoning (Cloud) from Low-Level Safety (Device).

The Rust Advantage

Built for the "Edge" of Reality.

  • Memory Safe: Zero memory corruption crashes.
  • Blazing Fast: Zero-cost abstractions.
  • Modern: Built for AI concurrency.
POWERED BY RUST

Order from Chaos

Replacing Nodes with Actors.

  • Old Way (Nodes): Callback Hell, Race Conditions.
  • ferri Way (Actors): Isolated State, Sequential Messages.
  • Benefit: Deterministic behavior in a chaotic world.

$50,000

Android for Robots

Democratizing Physical AI.

  • Platform Play: We provide OS, others provide bodies/brains.
  • Business Source License (BSL 1.1): Free for hackers, monetized at scale.
  • Traditional Integration Cost: $50,000+
    (Source: Standard Bots, 2024)
  • ferri Integration Cost: ~$50 (Compute Node)

The Skill Store

Download ability, don't code it.

  • An App Store for physical actions ("Fold Laundry", "Sort Recycling").
  • Network Effects: More Skills = More Robots.

Who is in charge?

The Control Plane

Hybrid Orchestration: Gemma + Gemini

graph LR A[Gemma: Triage] --> B[Gemini: Expert Fix] B --> C[Gemma: Commit] style A fill:#38bdf8,stroke:#0f172a,color:#0f172a style B fill:#a5b4fc,stroke:#0f172a,color:#0f172a style C fill:#38bdf8,stroke:#0f172a,color:#0f172a
jobs: triage: run: ferri with --model gemma "Scan for bugs" expert-fix: needs: [triage] run: ferri with --model gemini-pro "Fix bugs" commit: needs: [expert-fix] run: ferri with --model gemma "Write message"

The Architects

Uniquely qualified to bridge Atoms and Bits.

Gretchen Boria, PhD

Product & Research Lead

  • The Scientist: PhD researcher bringing government & industry rigor to AI.
  • The Brain: Expert in Agentic Workflows and "Human-in-the-Loop" protocols.
  • The Provocateur: Built the "Project Abel" agentic interface to prove the concept.

Jorge A. Jiménez

Engineering & Systems Lead

  • The Builder: Architect of the ferri OS (Rust) and the live embedded demo.
  • The Muscle: 10+ years engineering enterprise distributed systems.
  • The Scale: Managed 2B+ instrumentation data points at scale.
Combined Strength: Scientific Rigor • Agentic Reasoning • Hardened Infrastructure

Validated & Ready

The path forward.

  • Debut: First presented at Google Gemini Meetup (Sept 19, 2025).
  • Validated: "Director" architecture proved in real environments (Dec 26, 2025).
  • Next: Building Universal Adapter Layer.

The Director in Action

Gemini Meetup @ Google • Dec 26, 2025

Note: 'Abel' refers to the autonomous demo unit used in this session.

Orchestration Demo 1 Orchestration Demo 2 Orchestration Demo 3

Project Abel

The $40 Proof of Concept.

ferri is the OS. Abel is just the Proof.

  • The Brain: Gemini 2.0 Flash (Speech-to-Code).
  • The Spine: Rust CLI + ESP32 Microcontroller.
  • The Math: s(t) = 10t³ - 15t⁴ + 6t⁵
    Minimum Jerk Trajectory for human-like motion.
User speaks → Whisper → Gemini → Rust → ESP32 → Servos

Use of Funds

Scaling from $40 to Infinity.

  • Core Engineering: Finishing the generative agentic layer (L3) to move from side-project to product.
  • Go-To-Market: Aggressive traction goals to prove the platform at scale.
  • Talent & Labs: Hackathons for recruiting and office space for hardware R&D.

Freedom of Inference.
Freedom of Hardware.

Restoring Ownership to the Physical World.

We proved it with a $40 robot.
Now we build the infrastructure for the next industrial revolution.

Confidential • Investment Memo • 2026

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