Roof-mounted sensors on the REKA autonomous test bed, Malaysia Autoshow 2023

AI for the physical world

An applied R&D centre in Kuala Lumpur. REKA builds AI, robotics and automation for the real economy, the operations, facilities, and teams where business actually runs. We take what is repetitive, invisible, and slow, and make it smart, visible, and fast.

Are your best people solving the same problems every week? So they can do what only people can.

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Built with & trusted by teams across Malaysia. Since 2013. Built for progress.

Three ways in. One way of working.

You arrive knowing your problem, not our service names. So start there. Whichever door you take, the discipline behind it is the same.

Intelligent Automation. Managed AI, run for you.

Automate the busywork across your operation, with a human in the loop where it matters. Then we keep it running: we host it, monitor it, improve it, and keep it reliable, the models, the infrastructure, and the ops, all on one predictable subscription. You get the outcome; we handle the platform.

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AI-generated illustration of fictional professionals planning automation in an office-inspired workshop, not an actual client installation
  • Hosted infrastructureWe run the models and the infrastructure, scaled to your usage.
  • Continuous monitoringAccuracy, drift, latency, and availability watched around the clock.
  • Retraining & improvementWe retrain and improve as your data and your world changes.
  • Private / on-prem optionWhen data can’t leave your environment, we run it inside your walls.
AI-generated illustration of fictional professionals discussing a process plan in an office-inspired workshop, not an actual client meetingConsulting & Advisory

Figure out the right move before you spend. Assessments, roadmaps, digital transformation (DX), and vendor-neutral strategy.

Service Mechanical prototype detail from REKA's engineering archiveCustom Build & R&D

We build what doesn’t exist yet. Software, AI, hardware, robotics, designed for your environment.

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Already have technology, a team, AI, a vendor or a strategy? Good.

Good. Your team knows your company from the inside. We bring what we’ve learned everywhere else. Don’t outsource your development. Extend what your company is capable of.
Roadside sensor installation from the REKA and Murata project archive

Software ate the screen. The physical world is still waiting.

A decade of apps and dashboards transformed how we work behind glass. But the warehouse, the production line, the vehicle, the building, the parts of the economy that move and make things, were left behind. That gap is the problem REKA was built to close.

  • Operations that run blindThe work that generates your revenue happens in physical space, where most software simply cannot see. Decisions get made on gut feel because there is nothing better to go on.
  • Data that never becomes a decisionTeams are drowning in reports and dashboards, yet the answer to “so what do we do?” still takes days, or never comes. The data is there. The clarity is not.
  • Your best people, on the wrong workThe people you hired for their thinking spend their hours on repetitive, manual tasks a well-built system should be doing. The real problems wait. The real talent is wasted.

We help the physical world sense, understand, and act.

One simple idea runs through everything we build. First we give an operation the ability to perceive what’s happening, then to make sense of it, then to act on it, safely and at scale.

Sense. See what was invisible without a single camera.

We put eyes and instruments on the physical world. People, movement, occupancy, assets and conditions, captured privately and in real time.

PLExyz Grid knows what’s in your warehouse, and where it goes.

PLExyz Crowd knows how your building is really used. No cameras.

Murata traffic counting, localised in Malaysia with REKA.

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PLExyz showing a live view of a space

Understand. Turn signal into meaning with private AI.

Raw data is noise until something makes sense of it. We surface the one move that matters out of the dozens of dashboards that don’t.

Janka knows what you’ll need before you run out.

Private LLMs run on-prem, inside PDPA.

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Janka explaining the reasoning behind a forecast

Act. Make the operation respond with a human in the loop.

Understanding only counts when something happens. We automate the work, with a person in the loop wherever judgement matters.

Yara shows where every job stands, live.

Intelligent Automation takes the busywork off your team.

Autonomy proven on real roads since 2016.

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Yara's board, updated from the floor

Optimise. Frame the hard problem and win classically today.

Most quantum value lives in the formulation, not the machine. Quantum-inspired methods run on ordinary hardware, today: real results this quarter, without waiting for the hardware.

QUBO / Ising is the form we map your hard problem into.

Honest horizon: we will not sell you a timeline that does not exist.

Cut project delivery from 2 months to 1 day: planning time and document preparation for one company’s ISO certification, measured by the client over 3 months.

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AI-generated illustrative photograph of a quantum-computing dilution refrigerator, not REKA-owned equipment or an actual REKA facility

We start by understanding your people and your work, not by selling you technology.

How we work →

Most technology companies lead with the product. We lead with the question. Before a single line of code, we sit with your team, learn how the work really happens, and find where your best people are being wasted on things that should not require them. Technology enters only at Prove, once the problem is genuinely understood.

An engineer reviewing production data at a desk overlooking a factory floor
  1. SeeWe learn your operation from the people who run it, and find what is worth changing.
  2. ProveWe test what is worth building on your data, before you commit. Technology starts here.
  3. BuildWe build what proved itself, sized to the problem.
  4. AdvanceWe train your people and keep improving it once it runs.

We’ve been building since 2013, and on open roads since 2016.

In 2016, REKA built Malaysia’s first self-driving car on open roads, and drove it from Melaka to Kuala Lumpur on the PLUS Highway, on our own hardware and autonomy stack. We are a member of the Autoware Foundation.

One of the very few independent commercial R&D companies in Southeast Asia building AI for the physical world.

Archive image of CRETA on a highway, temporarily reused pending a distinct replacement
How REKA put Malaysia’s first self-driving car on open roadsCase study
Archive photograph of Murata roadside traffic sensors, temporarily reused pending a distinct replacement
How Murata and REKA brought traffic intelligence to MalaysiaCase study

When research becomes repeatable

Some problems we’ve solved again and again deserve to become products. That’s why REKA created AntaraX: AI products for business, built on what REKA’s research has proven. REKA explores, researches and engineers; AntaraX productises, deploys and scales.

About AntaraXVisit antarax.ai ↗
Yara showing each team's tasksYaraHow much is a late job costing you before anyone notices it’s late? Janka forecasting what stock will be neededJankaHow much cash is sitting on your shelves, and what does one stock-out cost you? PLExyz Grid showing a warehouse on its own layoutPLExyz GridHow much warehouse space are you paying for that nobody can see is empty?

The graduation rule. A capability moves from REKA to AntaraX when it has a repeatable deployment, a published starting price and a fast path to first value. Until then it stays with REKA.

Built for industries that run on operations.

Wherever there’s repetitive work, scattered data, or physical assets to track, we help.

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