This week, we announced our partnership with SoftAcuity to advance a new category of AI—physical AI for mission-critical environments. Together, we’re expanding the capabilities of the Brilliant Assistant platform, bringing real-time, context-aware intelligence directly into the operating room. This isn’t theoretical AI. This is AI that sees, listens, understands, and assists in real time.

The Next Evolution of AI Isn’t on a Screen

Most AI today lives in dashboards, copilots, and chat interfaces. But in environments like the operating room, that’s not enough. Clinicians don’t have time to prompt a system, search for data, or navigate tools. They need intelligence that is always on, context-aware, instantly responsive, and seamlessly integrated into workflow. That’s where physical AI comes in.

Introducing Physical AI for Healthcare

Through our partnership with SoftAcuity and Barco, Brilliant Assistant evolves beyond a surgical display into something more powerful. It combines advanced sensing, ambient awareness, AI copilots, and real-time data integration to interpret what’s happening in the room and deliver relevant intelligence exactly when it’s needed.

Built for the Operating Room

Operating rooms are complex, high-stakes environments with multiple data sources, constant motion, and zero margin for delay. To be useful here, AI must move beyond static inputs and operate with real-world awareness.

Brilliant Assistant enables natural voice interaction, interprets context from multiple inputs, surfaces relevant information in real time, and supports seamless collaboration across systems and teams.

This is AI embedded directly into the workflow, not layered on top of it.

“Operating rooms are among the most technologically advanced environments in healthcare, yet the core interfaces clinicians rely on have remained largely unchanged. With Brilliant Assistant, we are introducing a new category of physical AI technology for the operating room—an intelligent system capable of understanding context, interacting through voice, and delivering real-time intelligence designed to augment surgical teams and improve patient outcomes.” — Bruce Kennedy, Founder and CEO of SoftAcuity.

At Atomic Gravity, we focus on building production-grade AI systems. This partnership reflects that philosophy. Together with SoftAcuity, we’ve taken a bold vision for AI in healthcare and translated it into a working system that operates in real environments, under real constraints. Because in mission-critical settings, AI doesn’t just need to be impressive. It needs to work.

“The next wave of AI in healthcare isn’t just software—it’s AI embedded directly into the environments where care happens. Brilliant Assistant is a powerful example of physical AI in action, combining sensors, voice, and intelligent agents to deliver real-time assistance inside the operating room.” — Tolga Tarhan, Founder and CEO of Atomic Gravity.

See Physical AI Live at NVIDIA GTC

We’re showcasing Brilliant Assistant at NVIDIA GTC in the Healthcare & Life Sciences Pavilion. If you’re there, come see what physical AI looks like in action.

Beyond the Operating Room: The Future of Physical AI

The operating room is just the beginning. Physical AI will transform environments where decisions are time-sensitive, data is fragmented, and context matters—from healthcare to manufacturing, logistics, and energy. This is the shift from AI as a tool to AI as an active participant in the environment.

Less Hype. More AI.

We’re proud to partner with SoftAcuity to bring this vision to life—and even more excited about what comes next.

Read the full announcement:
SoftAcuity and Atomic Gravity Partner to Advance Physical AI

Interested in building AI that works in the real world? Let’s talk.