CurieOS – AI Operating System for Science and Engineering

Orbital Industries (formerly Orbital Materials, the domain orbitalmaterials.com now redirects to its site) is an AI-first industrial company founded in late 2022, with press releases datelined London. It builds hardware from the atomic level up, using its own AI platform that combines AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed materials.

CurieOS is described as an operating system for agentic AI in science and engineering. Its core tool is Orb, an AI simulation model that predicts properties of new materials, and the platform adds a shared context graph, workflow orchestration, skill libraries and remote-first agents. Access is limited to select partners, starting with BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS).

• Orb simulation model: predicts properties of new materials for virtual screening.
• Context graph: shared data layer linked to tools such as Slack, Google Drive, Notion and Salesforce.
• Workflow orchestration: multi-stage agent workflows with evaluation loops and human review gates.
• Applications: shareable views over graph data with triggers.
• Skill libraries: encoded organizational best practices.
• Remote-first agents: long-running jobs with native handling of scientific formats.

A catalyst or emissions-control supplier could use it to propose and screen new catalyst compositions. A data center or electronics operator in Vietnam could explore PFAS-free thermal materials. A materials R&D team could orchestrate literature review and simulation in one workspace.

Lets scientists direct an AI research partner with multi-step instructions covering literature review, data analysis and simulation. The Orb Virtual Lab tests candidates computationally before lab work. The platform is provider-agnostic, so teams can match models to problems. It was used to develop a PFAS-free cooling material for the company's own data center brand.

Agentic AI is becoming the interface for scientific and engineering R&D, with catalyst, battery and cooling-material discovery as early use cases. Large chemical companies are licensing AI platforms rather than building their own. Vietnamese chemical, electronics and data center operators could access such platforms through partnership programs.

Founded in late 2022 per the homepage. Release of 2026-08-05 (London dateline) announced the BASF ECMS license; the CTO post of 2026-08-11 introduced CurieOS and said access is opened to select partners. The domain orbitalmaterials.com redirects to orbitalindustries.com; the site also promotes an Orbital IT data center brand.