Hallucination is not an option when AI meets the real world: Dr Burkhard Boeckem, CTO, Hexagon

When Dr Burkhard Boeckem, Chief Technology Officer at Hexagon, talks about artificial intelligence, he is not talking about prompts, copilots, or abstract productivity gains. He is talking about machines that operate in the real world, machines that know where they are, understand their surroundings, and make decisions that cannot afford to be wrong.

“Hallucination is not an option,” Boeckem says. “If you deploy AI into physical reality, the bar needs to be so much higher.”

It is a deceptively simple statement, but it cuts to the heart of a widening fault line in enterprise AI. As generative AI dominates headlines, Hexagon is operating in a different domain altogether, one where intelligence must be grounded in physics, geometry, and spatial truth. For Boeckem, this is not the future of AI. It is the present.

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