Looking Back at 2025: A Year of Meaningful Partnerships in Physical AI
As we head into the end of 2025, I’ve been reflecting on everything we’ve done over the past twelve months. It’s been a year of steady work, clear progress, and a lot of good conversations about where physical AI is headed.
For a long time, we’ve focused on making AI work in the real world, not just on a screen, but in heavy machinery and industrial environments. This year, that focus really paid off. We’ve moved from just "doing the work" to being a core part of the conversation on how physical AI should be built and used.
Growing our community
We’ve always believed that technology works better when people collaborate. This year, we got closer to the organizations shaping our industry: We joined FIMA (Forum for Intelligent Machines) and were invited to become an associate partner in the SIX Mobile Work Machines network. We also continued our work with AI Finland and AHK Finnland, helping to build a stronger AI ecosystem here and across Europe.
One thing the team is particularly proud of is our EmbliCats initiative. We want the tech world to be more open, so we hosted events like a LiDARLab workshop where we invited women and underrepresented groups in tech to learn about physical AI and LiDARs alongside our experts.
Getting out there
It was great to see so many of you in person this year. Whether we were talking about synthetic data or sharing experiences how does physical AI systems perform in production, these events were the highlight of 2025:
Bauma 2025: The world’s leading trade fair for construction machinery and equipment.
FIMA AI Day: We co-hosted this event focused on leveraging AI for the R&D of intelligent mobile work machines. We welcomed speakers from Konecranes, Aalto University House of AI, FCAI, and Finnish AI Region FAIR, alongside our own experts.
Future Mobile Work Machines 2025: The flagship event for the mobile machinery sector, where we demonstrated how physical AI systems are built in practice and contributed a keynote.
Teknologia 25: Finland's leading event for industry and technology professionals. At SICK’s booth, we demonstrated real-time human detection and tracking using LiDAR data and a model trained with synthetic data.
AI Finland’s AI Gala: Great opportunity to celebrate what the Finnish tech community is achieving together.
Looking toward 2026
The coming year is looking even busier. We are preparing to grow the team and take our work on more international projects.
I want to say a sincere thank you to our customers and partners. We don’t take your trust for granted, and we’re excited to keep building things with you in 2026. If you see us at an event next year, please come over and say hi.
Wishing you all a great year ahead,
Teemu Heikkilä
CEO, Emblica
Emblica is not your average data science team. We are delivering tailored AI systems for our partners working in unique operation environments and challenges. We design and develop tailored solutions for land, sea, air, and underground applications. By building strong partnerships, we focus on deeply understanding our customers goals, ensuring our development delivers on your vision.