From Physical Reality to Engineering Intelligence
Siemens Cre8Ventures and Solaya collaborate to accelerate Europe’s next generation of Physical AI and Digital Twins
The future of industrial innovation will not be built by software alone.
It will be built by connecting the physical and digital worlds faster, more accurately and more collaboratively than ever before.
That is why Siemens Cre8Ventures is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with Solaya, bringing a new capability to the Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace: the Physical Capture Layer.
Together we are creating a new workflow that transforms real-world assets into engineering-ready Digital Twins, enabling organisations to move from physical reality to validated engineering decisions in hours rather than weeks.
A Missing Piece of the Digital Twin
Digital Twins are now central to designing, validating and operating complex industrial systems. Yet engineering teams routinely start from incomplete information. Existing assets, factories and equipment must often be manually surveyed before meaningful engineering work can begin.
Solaya closes that gap.
Using smartphone-based capture, Solaya converts real-world environments into engineering-ready digital representations that plug directly into Siemens’ Digital Twin ecosystem—turning weeks of groundwork into hours.
The end-to-end workflow
- Physical Reality
Existing assets, infrastructure and environments as they are in the field. - Rapid Physical Capture
Smartphone-based scanning converts real-world geometry into structured data. - Engineering Validation
Captured models are verified against engineering standards and tolerances. - Siemens Digital Twin
Validated data integrates directly into the Siemens Digital Twin ecosystem. - Operational Decisions
Simulation and analysis drive confident, real-time operational choices. - Commercial Deployment
Engineering intelligence is deployed at scale across products and assets.
Building Europe’s Physical AI Ecosystem
The Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace was created to help innovative companies collaborate rather than compete in isolation.
By combining complementary technologies across semiconductors, software, AI and industrial engineering, the Marketplace enables ecosystem partners to solve challenges that no single organisation could address alone.
Solaya extends this ecosystem by providing the real-world capture capability that complements Siemens’ Digital Twin, Silicon Twin and engineering software portfolio.
Together we can connect:
- Physical Asset Capture – Smartphone-based scanning converts real environments into engineering-ready digital models.
- Semiconductor Innovation – Silicon-level design and validation integrated across the full product lifecycle.
- Multi-physics Digital Twins – High-fidelity simulation spanning thermal, structural and fluid domains simultaneously.
- Engineering Simulation – Virtual prototyping and scenario testing before physical build or deployment.
- AI-driven Validation – Automated anomaly detection and performance verification at scale.
- Industrial Deployment – Operationalised insights delivered directly into live industrial workflows.
Together these capabilities form a single collaborative engineering workflow.
Supporting Europe’s Sovereignty Ambitions
This collaboration also aligns closely with the ambitions of the EU Chips Act.
While much attention has rightly focused on semiconductor manufacturing capacity, Europe’s long-term competitiveness depends equally on its ability to develop sovereign engineering capabilities around those semiconductors.
The next generation of autonomous systems, robotics, industrial AI and critical infrastructure will require trusted digital engineering environments capable of validating increasingly complex systems before deployment.
By combining Solaya’s rapid physical capture with Siemens’ Digital Twin, Silicon Twin and collaborative engineering capabilities, we aim to strengthen Europe’s ability to:
- Accelerate sovereign industrial innovation
- Reduce engineering risk
- Validate mission-critical systems earlier
- Improve collaboration across industrial ecosystems
- Shorten the path from innovation to commercial deployment
This reflects the broader objective of Siemens Cre8Ventures: enabling European innovators to collaborate across academia, start-ups, industry and government to accelerate industrial competitiveness.
Two Campaigns, One Vision
The collaboration will initially focus on two complementary initiatives.
Flagship Campaign
GNSS-Denied Navigation & Physical AI
Working alongside ecosystem partners, Siemens Cre8Ventures and Solaya will explore how rapid physical capture can support the creation and validation of autonomous systems operating in environments where satellite navigation cannot be relied upon.
The campaign will combine semiconductor innovation, trusted machine identity, AI, engineering simulation and Digital Twin technologies into a complete engineering workflow.
Potential ecosystem collaborators include Arm, Minima, IMChip, MemStera, ATLANT 3D and leading defence organisations.
Parallel Campaign
Brownfield Industrial Asset Digitisation
Alongside the flagship programme, the partnership will support manufacturers and infrastructure operators looking to modernise existing facilities.
By rapidly capturing production equipment, factories and industrial assets into engineering-ready Digital Twins, organisations can accelerate retrofit projects, improve maintenance planning and reduce the cost of industrial transformation.
More Than Technology
This collaboration is about much more than integrating two technologies.
It represents a new collaborative venture model.
Through the Siemens Cre8Ventures Digital Twin Marketplace we will jointly develop:
- Customer campaigns
- Executive workshops
- Proof-of-Value projects
- Technical demonstrations
- Customer success stories
- Siemens internal enablement
- Joint marketing activities
- Industry thought leadership
Together we are creating a repeatable framework for bringing innovative technologies to market faster.
Looking Ahead
Innovation increasingly happens at the intersection of multiple technologies rather than within a single organisation.
By bringing together rapid physical capture, Digital Twins, semiconductor innovation and industrial software, Siemens Cre8Ventures and Solaya are creating a new pathway from physical reality to engineering intelligence.
This partnership represents another important step in building a collaborative European ecosystem capable of accelerating Physical AI, strengthening industrial sovereignty and helping organisations engineer the next generation of autonomous and intelligent systems.
Together, we are not simply creating better Digital Twins—we are helping build the collaborative engineering ecosystem that Europe needs to compete in the age of Physical AI.
About Siemens Cre8Ventures
Siemens Cre8Ventures is a collaborative venture platform that brings together start-ups, corporates, universities, investors and policymakers to accelerate the commercialisation of breakthrough technologies.
Through the Siemens Digital Twin Marketplace, ecosystem partners collaborate to validate, demonstrate and scale innovation across Physical AI, Sovereign AI, Semiconductors, Robotics, Quantum Technologies and Digital Infrastructure, helping accelerate the journey from breakthrough research to industrial deployment.
