Tether’s QVAC powers G Bionics robot demonstration at Plan ₿ Forum

A humanoid robot from Generative Bionics ran Tether's local AI platform on stage in Lugano, with no remote servers involved Tether, the company best known for issuing the world’s most-used dollar stablecoin, just put its name on a robot. At the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, Switzerland, Italian robotics startup G_Bionics showed a humanoid robot running QVAC, Tether’s local AI platform. The pitch was simple: the machine handled its AI inference entirely on board, without calling home to a remote server. What happened in Lugano The demonstration took place at the fifth edition of the Plan ₿ Forum, held October 23-24, 2026. The robot came from G_Bionics, also known as Generative Bionics, an Italian deep-tech company spun out of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The core claim of the showcase was fully local AI inference. That means the robot’s decision-making ran on hardware inside the machine itself rather than in a distant data center. QVAC is Tether’s open-source, on-device AI platform. It is designed to work across multiple device types and carries no dependency on the cloud. The hardware side of the demo was GENE.01, the platform Generative Bionics builds its robots around. GENE.01 ...