Research for a more human-centered world

Agentic Systems
for a More Human Future

We advance fundamental research and build real-world systems where artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, and human-centered applications meet — with a focus on healthcare, multi-agent collaboration, research infrastructure, and knowledge systems.

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50Patent entriesView source
06Research programsView source
03Public systemsView source

Research areas

From fundamental research to real‑world impact.

Artificial
Intelligence

Foundation models, reasoning, and human-centered AI.

Intelligent
Systems

Multi-agent systems, human–AI collaboration, and complex systems.

Multi-agent
Systems

Runtime safety, coordination, and verification for systems with multiple agents.

Healthcare AI

AI for health, biomedicine, and clinical decision support.

Knowledge
Systems

Knowledge representation, scientific AI, and information systems.

Secure AI
Bots

Employee-facing AI bots, approved runbooks, separated consents, and action receipts.

Featured research programs

Long-term programs building toward AI that is more capable — and more beneficial.

All projects

Microscopic view of botanical leaf cells from medicinal plant research

AIMed

AI for healthcare and Vietnamese traditional medicine.

Applied healthcare AI that puts medical knowledge and intelligent assistance to safe, real-world use.

5,190+ medicinal herbsInteraction checkingAI plant recognition

Public platform — live

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A research visualization of software agents pausing at a human approval checkpoint

ActantOS

Runtime safety and verification for multi-agent systems.

A self-hosted enforcement kernel that intercepts tool calls between agents and the systems they act on — evaluating each call against policy before allowing, pausing for approval, or blocking.

Fail-closed enforcementCedar policy engineOne-use human approvals

v1.2.0 “Quiet Open-Core” — shipped, self-hosted

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Editorial illustration of a service-desk bot answering from an approved runbook while every action is filed into an audit ledger

ActantBot

Security and runtime-safety agents on the ActantOS kernel.

The WorkDesk bot family for employee IT support: guided troubleshooting from approved runbooks, requests filed through three separated consents, and security reports taken in a private channel — every write decided by the ActantOS kernel.

WorkDesk bot familyApproved runbooksThree separated consents

WorkDesk — shipped with ActantOS

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A university research commons with scholarly books and shared data resources

ScienzaOS

Research infrastructure for open science and collaboration.

The platform for academic life: Research Agent, Teaching Studio, and Business Collaboration on one shared foundation of sources, review, rights, and provenance — agents prepare, people retain authority.

Research AgentTeaching StudioBusiness Collaboration

Pre-launch — access by request

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Illustration of a request moving through a policy gate and human approval checkpoint to an audit ledger

Agent Platform

Governed AI agents with clear permissions and an auditable record of every action.

An operating layer that connects channels, agents, people, and systems — enforcing rules and scoped permissions, pausing for human approval when needed, and recording every action and outcome.

Scoped permissionsHuman approvalsAction records

In development

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Editorial illustration of a scanned document being transformed into structured data while a researcher reviews the source

AgenticOCR

AI-assisted document-to-data workflows with human review.

Turns scanned documents into structured data, keeps source pages beside extracted results, and supports review, editing, and export in one workflow.

Document-to-data workflowPage-level source reviewJSON, Excel, HTML export

Staging showcase — live

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How the research connects