Italia is home to a massive data centre for training humanoid robots
Investment of up to 200 million in Liguria. CEO Pucci: ‘This is how we defend European sovereignty in the digital world’
An investment of up to 200 million, for a site that will employ around a hundred staff and will be the largest facility of its kind in Europe.
This is the result of the framework agreement signed by the Italian company Generative Bionics (GB) with the US chip giant AMD, an agreement aimed at creating a data factory dedicated to training humanoid robots – the field in which this spin-off of the Italian Institute of Technology operates.
The underlying idea is to bring humanoid robotics to a stage where it can be reliably deployed in industry, whilst strengthening European autonomy in this field, thereby ensuring that the data, models and know-how relating to this technological infrastructure are generated, trained and validated on the continent.
The first hub, planned for Italia (it will be in Liguria, the region where Generative Bionics is based), will cover 5,000 square metres, with work due to start shortly and operations scheduled to begin as early as the fourth quarter of 2027. This first step will be followed by a second facility in Europe, with a preference for countries where energy is cheaper, and a third facility serving global markets.
Together, the three facilities – part of a plan involving up to two billion dollars in investment – will replicate real-world industrial environments, generating high-fidelity physical data to train humanoid robots to perform specific tasks. The agreement involves combining their respective high-tech expertise: on the one hand, Generative Bionics, through its Gene.01 robotics platform; on the other, AMD’s computing power, as the partner for AI infrastructure.
