Founded in 2023 as a spin-off of Politecnico di Milano, Motus ml is a deep-tech startup building AI for space and high-reliability manufacturing.

Research-led.
Field-proven.

Motus ml grew out of the Data Science Lab at Politecnico di Milano, rooted in more than 25 years of research into how intelligent systems learn, adapt and reason under real-world constraints. That research did not stay in the lab. It became part of the foundation Motus was built on, shaping an engineering approach grounded in scientific rigor rather than in off-the-shelf solutions alone.

Today, researchers and engineers work on the same problems from day one. And every result has to hold up in production before we consider it done.

We like to aim high.
To the moon? Maybe.

2023

Year of founding

15+​

Team members & growing

40%

Talent holding PhD

Our Vision

We envision a future where systems and processes can unlock the full potential of their data to operate with greater intelligence, efficiency and autonomy, in service of people.

Today, much of that potential remains untapped. We believe intelligence should be designed around the context in which it operates, making the most effective and efficient use of the data available.

That is the future we are working towards: intelligence that earns its place inside the systems where it matters, built to perform even under the most demanding real-world conditions.

How we work

Curiosity

We’re still a research team at heart. Half the job is asking why something doesn’t work yet.

Ownership

We take responsibility for what we build, from the first idea to production. If you start something, you see it through.

Trust

We’d rather build something that works reliably in the real world than something that simply looks finished.

Impact

The right solution for the constraint at hand beats elegance in theory. We build for the hardware, the data and the deadline we actually have.

Growth

Between teammates, and in what we ship. If a result isn’t measured, we don’t claim it.

Meet our lead team

Giacomo Ziffer, PhD

CEO & Co-founder

Alessio Bernardo, PhD

CTO & Co-founder

Emanuele Della Valle, PhD

CRO & Co-founder

Marco Balduini, PhD

COO & Co-founder

Move forward.