A world model for the factory: predicting events across any machine, robot, or process from raw sensor streams

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Summary

Forgis Labs presents a family of foundation models for time series sensor data in industrial settings, with five papers accepted to ICML 2026 workshops, enabling event prediction and natural language explanation from raw sensor streams.

**Repos:** [**https://github.com/Forgis-Labs**](https://github.com/Forgis-Labs) **- 5 papers into ICML** Foundation models cracked text, images, audio, and video. They still can't reason about time series, the modality that actually runs the physical world: vitals, power grids, markets, telemetry, machine signals. We've been building toward one solution: a world model for the physical world. Instead of a narrow model per problem, it learns the underlying dynamics of how complex systems behave over time, so it can reason about a signal it has never seen the same way it reasons about one it has. Our proving ground is the factory, but the idea generalizes to any sensor stream. It's a single pipeline, published as four building blocks across 5 ICML 2026 workshops: \- FactoryNet: the data. A large-scale industrial sensor dataset for pretraining the full stack. (FMSD + AI4Physics) \- HEPA: the architecture. A foundation model for event prediction in time series, running on the edge. (FMSD, Spotlight) \- RASA: the graph. Shows transformers can reason over a system as a graph, where topology, not learned relation weights, drives multi-hop reasoning. (GFM) \- TEMPO: the language. Reads raw sensor streams and explains, in natural language, what a system is doing. (FMSD) Check it out and let us know if you have any technical questions!
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