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About

Built by people who have shipped AI to the factory floor before.

Vesper is built and run in Europe by Datameister, the AI research and deployment lab founded by Ruben Verhack and Axel Vlaminck.

Datameister co-founders Axel Vlaminck and Ruben Verhack — Axel Vlaminck and Ruben Verhack, co-founders

The road to Vesper

Over a decade of AI research and industrial software.

2010sResearch3D AI, Gaussian-kernel rendering and quadruped robot control.
2017OqtonAI for robotic welding, CNC machining and metal 3D printing.
2021ExitOqton acquired for $180M.
2023DatameisterVision, 3D and physical AI in production. Self-funded and profitable.
2026VesperNext-generation automation, made accessible for factories.

The founders

Illustrated portrait of Ruben Verhack

CEO and co-founder

Ruben Verhack, PhD

Double PhD in computer science, Ghent University and TU Berlin.
Invented a precursor of Gaussian Splatting.
Senior AI engineer and AI product manager at Oqton: robotic welding and geometric reasoning.
Google Faculty Award. Best Paper, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Invited talks at Google, Disney Research and Netflix.

Illustrated portrait of Axel Vlaminck

CTO and co-founder

Axel Vlaminck

MSc in industrial engineering, electronics.
Published research on quadruped robot control in 2017, well before "physical AI" was a term.
One of the first employees at Oqton and a principal driver of its AI team, through the acquisition in 2021.
Signal processing, computer vision, point clouds and physics simulation.

NVIDIA Inception member
Google Faculty Award
IEEE Best Paper
3D generative AI at a Fortune 100 company