Ekumen
About
About Ekumen
Ekumen provides product-engineering teams across robot software stacks, operations tooling, drivers, infrastructure, simulation and extended-reality interfaces. Its engineers work with ROS and ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac and Omniverse, cloud systems and embedded platforms to develop autonomy functions and the supporting tools required to test, deploy and monitor them.
Engagements range from specialist staff embedded in a customer team to complete development programmes covering architecture, implementation and validation. Ekumen has worked across mobile robots, industrial automation and autonomous vehicles in the Americas and Europe. Grid Dynamics acquired the Buenos Aires company in May 2026 to expand its robotics-product-engineering and physical-AI practice.
Team
- Guillermo Manzato - Co-founder & CEO - Leads Ekumen within Grid Dynamics as it delivers robotics software stacks, simulation tooling and client-system integration.
- Patricio Reyna Almandos - Co-founder & Managing Partner - Leads Ekumen client delivery and operating partnerships across robotics software and integration programmes.
- Julian Cerruti - Co-founder & Advisor - Advises Ekumen on robotics engineering, technical direction and the company's continuing role within Grid Dynamics.
- Agustin Alba Chicar - Business Director, EMEA - Leads EMEA business development for Ekumen's robotics software engineering and integration services.
- Florencia Grosso - Business Director, Americas - Leads Americas business development for Ekumen's robotics software engineering and integration services.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-06-12 - Capability - Ekumen connects a MuJoCo-trained manipulation policy to physical hardware
The ROS 2 system connected the policy to a robot arm, gripper, motor controllers, perception components and operator tools. Ekumen built a reproducible development environment and shared-control interfaces for setup and demonstrations. The project addressed the transition from simulation-trained policy execution to integrated physical hardware.
Source - 2026-05-21 - Acquisition - Grid Dynamics acquires robotics engineering firm Ekumen
Grid Dynamics acquired Ekumen to expand its robotics product-engineering and physical-AI capabilities. Ekumen brought more than 13 years of robotics software and product-engineering experience to Grid Dynamics. The Buenos Aires-based team had delivered industrial robotics work across the Americas, Spain and Germany.
Source - 2024-01-04 - Demonstration - InOrbit demonstrates real-to-simulation robot orchestration with NVIDIA
The workflow lets users define a mission once and execute it in simulated and physical settings. Ekumen helped build a virtual Robot Space mirroring InOrbit's Mountain View facility. The demonstration used NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Omniverse to model robots and operational environments.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- InOrbit.AI
Simulation Development Partner - Ekumen collaborated with InOrbit on a virtual Robot Space and multi-vendor simulation demonstration.
- Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc.
Acquired Robotics Engineering Firm - Grid Dynamics acquired Ekumen to expand its Physical AI and robotics product-engineering services.
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Context tags
- Robot development platforms - Stack Layer - Official company material supports robot development platforms.
- Robotics development platform - Stack Layer - Official company material supports robotics development platform.
- Industrial robot software stack - Stack Layer - Official company material supports industrial robot software.