Symbol Research is an independent AI R&D company based in Ireland.

We develop AI technologies to help improve lives and support a healthier, more sustainable planet.

Founded by a team with 30 years' experience undertaking research, designing and building mission critical systems for aerospace, automotive, defense, logistics, manufacturing, medical, pharma, scientific research and software industries.

We undertake both original and client-sponsored AI and simulation research for communities, companies and government agencies.

AI systems are emerging from early adoption and proofs of concept. Reasoning, agentic, and embodied AI systems will become increasingly omnipresent. In the coming years they will shape how our everyday systems think, act, and collaborate. Central to how we adopt these systems is trust. Trust in how they are trained, how they reason, how we interact with them and how trustworthy the end results are. 

At Symbol Research we work on challenges related to trust in sovereign specialized systems in applications for critical infrastructure, environmental management and bio-spatial modelling including:

• model domain-specific-accuracy

• physics-grounded spatial reasoning

• embodied systems

• operational deployment, performance and autonomy