Australian motion technology company dorsaVi (ASX:DVL) has announced a technical milestone that could reshape the future of robotics and human–machine interaction.
The company’s RRAM Reflex Platform has been validated as capable of delivering biological-grade reflexes, reacting faster than the human nervous system, with minimal energy use.
The platform, developed through dorsaVi’s evaluation program at Artimis Labs, is directly benchmarked against state-of-the-art digital edge AI systems. The results show orders-of-magnitude improvements in both speed and energy efficiency, confirming that the technology has moved beyond feasibility and is now ready for real-world integration.
At its core, the RRAM Reflex Platform collapses sensing, memory, and compute into a single fabric. Unlike digital AI systems, which require analog-to-digital conversion, data transfers and sequential processing, RRAM operates as a unified loop, delivering responses in under a microsecond while consuming around a nanojoule of energy per inference.
Chairman Gernot Abl said the validation was a pivotal moment for the company. “We have proven that reflex-grade intelligence can be achieved at sub-microsecond latency and nanojoule energy levels. This positions RRAM not simply as a memory, but as the nervous system for next-generation robotics and biomedical systems,” he said.
The demonstration included a compact neural network designed to mimic a biological reflex arc. Processing tactile and thermal features from an electronic skin, the system was able to output commands such as grip release, grip tightening, wrist stabilisation, or recoil from heat, all executed instantaneously at the skin and joints without reliance on a central processor.
dorsaVi argues that this design represents a new paradigm for robotics, a distributed nervous system where reflexes occur locally, reducing dependence on central processors while conserving energy. The implications range from robotic grippers that can release fragile objects before damage occurs to prosthetic limbs that recoil from excessive force or heat to protect wearers.