🔥 BREAKING: The Future of Industrial AI Just Went Live on Kaggle with SORDI.ai!
We are ecstatic to announce that the full collection of SORDI.ai synthetic datasets—the world's largest comprehensive Synthetic Object Recognition Dataset for Industries—has been officially unleashed and is now LIVE on Kaggle! This massive, one-of-a-kind resource, featuring over a million photorealistic images of industrial assets, and large point clouds, is meant to become the new global benchmark for training robust computer vision models, bypassing the time-consuming and expensive barriers of real-world data collection, and putting the power of next-generation AI directly into the hands of every researcher, data scientist, and developer worldwide.
2025 NEWS
IAA MOBILITY 2025 - SORDI.ai x Google Cloud : Die nächste industrielle Revolution ist Agentic
Together with BMW Group, Google Cloud, and MONKEYWAY, SORDI.ai showed at the IAA Mobility 2025 how Agentic AI can automatically transform 3D scans into intelligent digital twins of industrial environments. In these virtual spaces, AI agents analyze, learn, and optimize independently — enabling factories that adapt, evolve, and think along.
SORDI.ai's IAA Mobility 2025 talk by Marc KAMRADT (BMW AG) and Matthias OEHM (Google Cloud) at the Google Booth - Hall B1 Stand B10
Photo with Dr. Florian HERRMANN, Head of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal Affairs and Media, during his visit to the Google Cloud's SORDI.ai booth at the IAA Mobility 2025 with Google Cloud and SORDI.ai teams
SORDI.ai's limited edition Bavarian Android Bot masterpiece by HeidiVanB (https://www.heidivanb.com/)
Dr. Florian HERRMANN, Head of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal Affairs and Media, visiting the Google Cloud's SORDI.ai booth at the IAA Mobility 2025
Matthias OEHM (Google Cloud) presenting SORDI.ai's latest point cloud to digital twin reconstruction powered by Google Gemini
Mr. Dieter REITER, Mayor of Munich, visiting the Google Cloud's SORDI.ai Booth at the IAA Mobility 2025
Google Cloud Sessions Program featuring the SORDI.ai talk
Visualization of SORDI.ai's latest Agentic AI innovation for factory space optimization
Great gifts offered during SORDI.ai's IAA Mobility 2025 presentation, including Ingmar STAPEL's latest robotic book, SORDI.ai Honey jars, and Monkeyway gifts
Visualization of SORDI.ai's latest Agentic AI innovation for factory process optimization
Marc KAMRADT (BMW AG) and Matthias OEHM (Google Cloud) presenting SORDI.ai Agentic AI innovations powered by Google Gemini!
SORDI.ai at 💙 of BMW Group’s Production Innovation!
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BMW Group shows SORDI.ai capability in BMW iFactory!
Ensuring precision on production line by real-time monitoring, instantly detecting faults, and improving quality.
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SORDI.ai enables real BMW Group production innovations!
SORDI.ai can precisely simulate virtual plant for testing purposes, enabling innovation for real BMW Group production!
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SORDI.ai unlocks potential for BMW Group’s digital factory planning
SORDI converts real-world assets into digital twins, holding a significant potential to accelerate digital factory planning!
Smarter, Faster, Greener: SORDI.ai’s Breakthroughs within BMW Group
“With numerous developers running training jobs seven days a week and managing large datasets exceeding 500K images, the enhanced computing power of the DGX systems enables us to train larger and more complex models.”
BMW Group IT Leader
Situated in Munich, the BMW Group TechOffice drives AI projects across the company—guiding teams from goal setting to deployment. To streamline production, it developed SORDI.ai that significantly accelerates model training and automates quality inspections. Tasks like door sill detection now take under an hour with just a few images, while subtle defects such as miscolored stitches are caught automatically. Beyond performance, SORDI.ai also supports BMW’s sustainability efforts through data-driven energy and emissions optimization. This success is powered by NVIDIA DGX systems, TAO Toolkit, and Omniverse, which enable high-speed training, simulation, and scalable AI deployment.
“The time it takes for our employees to implement AI automation in quality assurance has been slashed by over two-thirds. Every possible case […] is taken into account and covered by our SORDI dataset.”
BMW Group IT Leader
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We are on Spotify! New Podcast Episode: Synthetic Data for AI and Industrial Applications
How SORDI.ai helps overcome real-world data challenges to drive smarter, sustainable (green), more efficient (lean) and advanced digitized manufacturing?
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SORDI.ai made on top of Google Cloud's list of data agents for the automotive & logistics industry
Google Cloud updated their 2025 list containing a total of 601 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations, and SORDI.ai is on top of it!
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Ekipa Showcases SORDI.ai as Key to BMW Group’s Smart Factory Vision
Ekipa demonstrates SORDI.ai’s pivotal role in transforming industrial planning, making it faster, more collaborative, and future-ready, alongside Monkeyway and Google Cloud ’s Vertex AI.
SORDI.ai Draws "Who's whos'" Attention at the Ludwig Erhard Summit!
SORDI.ai’s presence in this prominent summit hosting top-leaders and high-level managers, marks a major recognition of its strategic importance, positioning it as a key driver of industrial innovation.
Go to website: ludwig-erhard-gipfel.de
2024 NEWS
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⭐ Have you met SORDI.ai's OpenUSD All-Star designer?
NVIDIA’s OpenUSD All‑Stars ebook spotlights Emily Boehmer’s contributions from SORDI.ai’s synthetic data generation pipeline.
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SORDI.ai earns Wikipedia recognition! 🌐
Did you know that SORDI.ai is now featured on Wikipedia? Check how the influential impact of SORDI.ai on industrial AI worldwide.
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🎓 The First SORDI.ai PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Chafic Abou Akar for successfully defending his thesis about industrial synthetic data generation and applications and introducing the SORDI.ai pipeline!
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Experience some SORDI.ai use cases at BMW’s Future Lab
At BMW’s Digital Campus in Munich, the Future Lab showcases interactive digitalization powered by advanced technologies—including innovative industrial AI applications from SORDI.ai.
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On the eve of Apple Vision Pro launch in Germany...
SORDI.ai has been testing how to bring real-time factory data to life through immersive mixed reality with Apple Vision Pro.
MONKEYWAY Partners with SORDI.ai
“By combining synthetic data and industrial AI with 3D streaming technology, we aim to bring new levels of efficiency and innovation to automotive production.” - Monkeyway
“Monkeyway's expertise in 3D visualization and streaming perfectly complements our goals at SORDI.ai. Together, with the support of amazing partners like Monkeyway, we are poised to achieve great things. “ - Marc KAMRADT
SORDI.ai Makes Headlines in Google Aufbruch #31
SORDI.ai has achieved a major milestone by being featured in the widely circulated Google Aufbruch Magazine (#31), a platform known for highlighting breakthrough digital innovations to a global audience. This recognition marks SORDI.ai’s rise from an internal BMW Group solution to an internationally relevant project driving open-source collaboration and industrial AI progress.
Through partnerships with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Monkeyway, BMW Group has built a powerful digital twins pipeline that solves the challenge of real-time factory updates and enables seamless teamwork across locations. The Aufbruch feature cements SORDI.ai’s position as a key player in the future of smart factories and industrial AI.
SORDI.ai Innovation makes its tour from North to South!
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Google Cloud Summit Nord
Together with Monkeyway and Google Cloud, SORDI.ai starts its Google Cloud tour showing how AI has never been easier before! First stop: Berlin!
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Google Cloud Summit Süd
SORDI.ai continues to push the boundaries of technology and innovation, and today it is showcasing its latest real-time 3D object construction in the Google Cloud Summit Süd, Munich!
Press News
Hannover Messe 2024 - “Revolutionizing Industrial Processes with SORDI.ai and Vertex AI”
In collaboration with Google Cloud and MONKEYWAY, BMW Group developed the AI solution SORDI.ai to optimize industrial planning processes and supply chains with Generative AI. This involves scanning assets and using Vertex AI to create 3D models that act as digital twins.
SORDI.ai in the official Google Tour at Hannover Messe - Interactive demo: Realtime 3D object scanning and reconstruction
Hall 16, Booth A10 at Hannover Messe 2024
SORDI.ai's Interactive Demo Assets
Industrial Leaders (Left to Right): Matthias OEHM, Industry Expert Manufacturing, Google Cloud - Gabriele EDER, Head of Manuf., Industrial & Automotive Google Germany - Roberto HENKEL, Head of Operations, IT Schaeffler AG - Marc KAMRADT, Head of TechOffice, BMW AG and Founder of SORDI.ai - Jelena BAUER, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company - Dr. Markus A MÜLLER, Managing Director GFT Technologies
Matthias OEHM, Industry Expert Manufacturing, Google Cloud
Marc KAMRADT presenting the latest developments of SORDI.ai alongside Matthias OEHM at the Google Cloud booth at Hannover Messe.
SORDI.ai at Google's Booth
Powerful exchange on the future of industrial AI with leaders from GFT, Google Cloud, McKinsey, BMW Group (Marc Kamradt), and Schaeffler
SORDI.ai is Proudly Partnering with
Together with Vertex AI, SORDI.ai Revolutionizes Industrial Processes
SORDI.ai is collaborating with Google Cloud to convert real-world assets into precise digital counterparts, so-called “digital twins” - to digitize planning and optimize supply chain with Generative AI. For more information, check the official press release!
"The results of our development collaboration (with Google Cloud) in the context of SORDI.ai define new standards and significantly accelerate the process of creating synthetic industrial data."
BMW Group
"[…] Simulations of manufacturing processes can be easily streamlined with a growing number of 3D models."
Google Cloud
NEW LOGO!
Inspired by SORDI’s latest advancement in Generative AI and Point Clouds. “The first set of logos showcased assembly explorations of the iconic "S" shape from a distorted point cloud, and the second set uses layers to represent the massive datasets that are used to train the AI models.“
NEW BOOK! Synthetic Data: Revolutionizing the Industrial Metaverse
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 stars on Amazon - 5K+ Access on SpringerLink
The book explores the impact of digitalization and AI based technologies on Industry 4.0 and smart factories. It discusses the need for synthetic data to train advanced AI models and how datasets like SORDi.ai, combined with NVIDIA Omniverse, can be used to train, for example, AI-based robots and prepare them to function in the real world.
“This book has arrived at just the right time […] It relies on practical use cases from the automotive and manufacturing industries and their digitalization technologies based on the SORDI dataset.”
Rev LEBAREDIAN, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA
“It describes BMW Group’s SORDI, as one of the main catalysts for creating the next-generation “robot gym” […] This book offers a fresh and modern look at today’s digital industry.”
Dirk DREHER, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) BMW Hams Hall Motoren GmbH, Coleshill, UK
2023 NEWS
The Industrial Metaverse as basis for the factory of the future
BMW iFactory provides an insight into what the so-called Industrial Metaverse already offers. Watch this presentation by Ingmar Stapel (BMW Group) and Michael Baling (MHP) to learn more about what is currently the most advanced and comprehensive digital twin factory. Discover how SORDI.ai dataset - that builds upon it - enables a groundbreaking degree of automation in the creation of AI-based industrial applications on a scale previously unseen.
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Advancing Industrial Object Detection with Synthetic Data
Delve into the technologies behind SORDI.ai as a valuable resource for training AI models from the Open Accelerated Computing Summit.
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SORDI Honey… 😋Absolutely Delicious
Beecause 🐝 SORDI.ai understands the importance of supporting nature, as well as local farmers! It presents its delicious Honey!
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Designers Australia Awards - Triumphing the Award of Merit
Proving SORDI’s design excellence and global impact on sustainable industrial AI through BMW Group and QUT Design Academy collaboration.
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Omniverse’s USD enables SORDI’s realistic asset creation
The USD pipeline optimizes SORDI.ai’s flow to improve the realism of 3D industrial assets featuring physical properties.
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Creating realistic OpenUSD-based industrial assets
Check how SORDI combines the power of Omniverse, Blender and Adobe Substance to create realistic assets for training AI.
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Flexible pipeline to join the force of many experts
SORDI adopts a flexible pipieline to build its large industrial scenes enabling many experts to contribute together at the same time.
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Showcase: Building a warehouse using SORDI.ai in LogiMAT 2023
Check how idealwords uses SORDI.ai and NVIDIA Omniverse to create an entire warehouse and run simulations for their autonomous mobile robot.
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Update of the SORDI dataset from Industrial AI Podcast
A lot has happened since the beginning of SORDI! This Industrial AI Podcast gives an update about the SORDI dataset.
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SORDI Generative .ai website is now LIVE!
This is a game-changing advancement in industrial AI and we can't wait to show you all the incredible features it offers.
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SORDI uses DGX H100 to manufacture intelligence
SORDI lets manufacturers develop powerful AI models and create digital twins that optimize the efficiency of factories and warehouses.
Press News
SORDI.ai in JENSEN’s GTC Keynote 2023
During this year’s eagerly awaited GTC keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the game-changing potential of SORDI.ai. He highlighted the enormous scale of its dataset and how it's being used to train robots in the industrial field!
As the CEO of NVIDIA and a visionary tech pioneer, Jensen's endorsement solidifies SORDI.ai's position as a cutting-edge technology that can transform the way businesses handle large-scale datasets and train their robots.
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How BMW is driving production with SORDI.ai?
“Thanks to SORDI, we were also able to tackle completely new tasks, especially in logistics.”
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SORDI is going GREEN!
Revolutionizing the way we monitor, analyze, and optimize assets for maximum performance and efficiency!
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Update of the SORDI dataset from Industrial AI Podcast
Discover the success story of SORDI.ai and its five iconic pillars presented at the Data Innovation Summit in Stockholm!
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Adobe Substances shows SORDI.ai's use of parametric design
Adobe Substance reposted - on their official 3D design Instagram - Epi’s latest work on parametric materials design within industrial simulation.
SORDI.ai Hackathon 2022: Kickoff Stage 2 at Microsoft HQ in Munich
The BMW Group, Microsoft, and NVIDIA have jointly invited participants to the highly endowed SORDI.ai Hackathon and numerous ambitious companies and data science teams around the world have answered the call! On January 16, the BMW Group presented the challenges to the finalists of the first phase at the kick-off event at Microsoft headquarters in Munich.
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Good luck to all the qualified teams!
The 10 qualified teams will compete in an Intelligent Video Analytics for a real-time inventory management system, supported by OpenACC.
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Congratulations to all winning teams!
6 Mars: The official results of the SORDI.ai Hackathon 2022 are officially released! Thank you for everyone who made this event a great success!
2022 NEWS
SORDI.ai Hackathon 2022: Stage 1
SORDI.ai invites brilliant and passionate minds to tackle real AI-based Industrial Computer Vision challenges in the World’s largest and biggest Industrial AI Hackathon for 2022! Registration opens on 24 October. The top 10 teams will qualify to the second stage for a chance to win a total prize of $25,000.
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The countdown to the world's largest AI challenge is on!
Looking for a unique challenge? Microsoft, together with the BMW Group and NVIDIA, is inviting participants to the hackathon!
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Hear it from NVIDIA Regional Director and Microsoft DE CTO!
“NVIDIA is also engaging in this event to show its strong support for SORDI.ai scientific use.”
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Registration opened - Stay up to date with all announcements!
This is your chance to come up with innovative solutions. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Previous Successful Highlights
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A realistic virtual factory is where AI models can gain experience
VPs Rev Lebaredian and Michele Melchiorre presents the next era of industrial virtualization and AI in the ISC22 High-Performance Keynote
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SORDI can be applied in all kinds of technologies!
Idealworks uses the algorithms to develop, simulate, and secure their autonomous mobile robot iw.hub.
The Start in 2022:
Launching SORDI.ai in NVIDIA GTC Spring 2022
Creating the Future: Creating the World's Largest Synthetic Object Recognition Dataset for Industry (SORDI)!
In a collaboration between BMW Group and NVIDIA, BMW TechOffice Munich has created and will publish SORDI — Synthetic Object Recognition Dataset for Industries. “SORDI will be the world’s largest and most comprehensive synthetic dataset. The dataset will significantly simplify training neural networks to recognize equipment in a factory environment.”
“BMW Group together with its partners Microsoft, NVIDIA and idealworks is making available the world’s largest reference dataset for artificial intelligence in the field of manufacturing” [Press Release]
Press Release: BMW Group publishes SORDI
BMW Group publishes SORDI, the largest open-source dataset by far for super-efficient AI applications in production. “The rendering pipeline from the BMW Tech Office in Munich allows any number of photos, including labels, to be synthesised in sufficient photorealistic HD quality for them to be used in the creation of highly robust AI models.”
