On 14 October, the Royal Dublin Society hosted the International AI Summit, one of the main events of Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union. The summit opened European AI Innovation Month, a programme promoted in collaboration with the European Commission that will conclude in Brussels on 17 November. The Irish Government had expected approximately 1,500 delegates, including CEOs, investors and institutional representatives.
Among the exhibitors was AMD, and at AMD’s booth stood GENE.01, the humanoid robot developed by Generative Bionics. Niamh Smyth, Ireland’s Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, visited the booth together with Michael Lohan of IDA Ireland, the Irish Government agency responsible for attracting foreign investment. They were welcomed by the AMD team, including Bryan Madden, and by the Generative Bionics team. The minister shook hands with the robot.
For a robot to shake someone’s hand, it must detect contact and regulate the amount of force it applies. These are two of the four things measured by the sensor-equipped skin mounted on GENE.01’s arms: touch, the proximity of a body, temperature and force. Generative Bionics presents this technology as the foundation for humanoid robots that will one day work alongside people without a barrier between them, unlike today’s industrial robots. In the post recounting the event, the company wrote that a handshake is a small step in that direction, as well as a simple way of explaining physical AI—that is, artificial intelligence that operates in the physical world—to the people in Europe responsible for regulating and supporting it.
GENE.01 was in Dublin as a guest of AMD, whose processors power the robot and which has been one of Generative Bionics’ investors since the company’s December 2025 funding round. In the same post, the company recalled that the robot went from concept to fully functioning humanoid in six months.
One week later, on 21 October, Daniele Pucci, CEO of the humanoid robotics company headquartered at Erzelli, presented the Physical AI Data Factory at CES Unveiled Milan: three centres where GENE.01 will be trained before entering customers’ facilities, the first of them in Italy.
