Onyx Consulting is a small business founded in 1995. We develop the cognitive substrate for embodied and disembodied artificial intelligent agents.

Our OntoAgent cognitive architecture supports reasoning and decision-making, supported by non-toy knowledge bases such as general domain ontologies and semantic/pragmatic lexicons for English. OntoAgent is ready to be integrated with existing robotic architectures.

Our OntoSem natural language understanding environment supports extraction and representation of the various facets of meaning of natural language texts that facilitate the reasoning and decision-making in OntoAgent.

We have the expertise and the infrastructure to augment the ontology to fit any domain of interest and extend our language understanding capabilities to languages other than English.

Onyx has been a recipient of several SBIR grants from federal government (including a Phase II grant from DARPA). It has experience cooperating with academic research entities; for example, in 2006-2013 it has been subcontracted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine to develop prototype intelligent agent-based systems for training medical students and advising MDs in diagnosis and treatment selection.