June 2010: swissT.meeting - fair for automation, Hall 9.1 / Booth C03
BlueBotics will be at the first swissT.meeting - fair for automation, which will take place June 30 - July 1 in Oerlikon. This trade fair aims to become a reference for Switzerland in the field of industrial automation.
June 2010: AUTOMATICA Münich, Hall A1 / Booth 530
BlueBotics will participate to
AUTOMATICA,
the reference automation trade fair in Europe. This year, the
International Symposium on Robotics 2010 (ISR) will take place within
the framework of AUTOMATICA, giving even more visibility to the products and
services presented by BlueBotics.
The trade fair will take place June 8 - 11.
April 2010: Hannover Messe, Hall 14 / Booth K07
BlueBotics was during April 19 - 23 at the Hannover Messe in the mobile robots & autonomous systems area. The area was located in the industrial automation hall, which has been an excellent positioning for ANT® as well as for the products and services dedicated to the industrial logistics. BlueBotics presented together with the partner Kokeisl Industrial Systems, the new AGV using ANT®, the Kokeisl Picking Robot, which was a key attraction of the hall by moving around people on a sofa.
March 2010: New company video on YouTube
The newly uploaded YouTube video presents BlueBotics' vision, values, and market segments. Both the service robotics and industrial logistics markets are covered with ANT® reference cases. We look forward for your rating of the video!
January 2010: New ANT driven AGV
Our partner
Kokeisl Industrial Systems brings to the market a new
ANT® driven AGV called Kokeisl Picking
Robot (KPR). This vehicle addresses the industrial logistics market, and
especially the powder logistics.
The KPR will be presented at the Hannover Messe 2010.
December 2009: A successful year
All over the year 2009, despite the economical crisis, BlueBotics could achieve several strategic successes. Here are some examples:
October 2009: BlueBotics on YouTube
BlueBotics has its channel on YouTube. The company presents fist of all a general video about its products and projects, as well as two videos showing AGV installations in Italy. More to come soon...
September 2009: go.automation trade fair, Basel
BlueBotics has presented ANT® as well as the product and services related to industrial logistics during the reference automation trade fair in Switzerland: go.automation, which took place from September 1 to 4 in Basel.
August 2009: ANT® driven AGV
One of the leaders of typical Italian bread specialties (e.g. pandoro, panettone, etc.) has equipped its production in Verona with an ANT® driven Paqutio forklift. This challenging environment represents an additional industrial proof for our ANT® navigation system.
April 2009: Hannover Messe trade fair, Hannover
BlueBotics has presented ANT® as well as the product and services dedicated to the industrial logistics and service robotics to the 2009's Hannover Messe, which took place from April 20 to 24 within the mobile robots & autonomous systems area.
March 2009: BlueBotics' customers are happy
The results of the 2008's customer survey are now available! BlueBotics' customers are overall very satisfied in 75% of the cases, while 25% are fairly satisfied. The products are rated as very satisfying by 50% of the customers, fairly satisfying by 45%, and fairly dissatisfying by 5%. The services are very satisfying for 59% of the customers, 39% are fairly satisfying, and 2% are fairly dissatisfying. BlueBotics will use this valuable feedback to improve products and services, and to better assist the customers. Download the full report.
February 2009: Your Big Mac is ANT® driven
Together with the partner Esatroll, BlueBotics has installed an ANT® driven Paquito forklift for the automation of the logistics in the bread production company, which delivers to the McDonald's of the whole Italy.
September 2008: Gilberto is on the market
On September 4, 2008, Gilberto 01 has been the first robot to hold a press release by presenting the Robosphere theme park in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. This theme park is developed by the PromoRobo association, representing the first Gilberto's customer. Gilberto is the new entertainment robot of BlueBotics resulting from the successful collaboration with Esatroll.
July 2008: Sensation's RoboX reaches London
On July 1, 2005, RoboX 08 started working in Dundee, Scotland, for the Sensation science center, where the exhibition proposes a didactic view of the technology. After three years of operation, RoboX has travelled 697km, which is more that the distance between Dundee and London! Over this period, the robot has required few maintenance interventions. Following one intervention, Sandy Colville claimed "Once again your customer service is second to none."
June 2008: AUTOMATICA trade fair, Münich
AUTOMATICA is the reference automation trade fair in Europe. The third edition took place on June 10-13, 2008 in the New Münich Trade Fair Centre. BlueBotics has participated within the Innovation Platform Service Robotics showing the latest products and developments for automation and service robotics with the largest booth of the platform.
May 2008: IEEE RAS Early Career Award
BlueBotics' CEO, Dr. Nicola Tomatis, has been awarded with the IEEE RAS Industry Early Career Award. Presented by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Pasadena, California, this award recognizes those innovators who have made significant contributions with a major impact on robotics and automation early on in their career.
April 2008: Hannover Messe trade fair, Hannover
The Hannover Messe is the largest technology trade fair in Europe. This edition took place from April 21 to 25. For the first time, one complete building was dedicated to mobile robots & autonomous systems. BlueBotics has presented ANT® as well as the product and services dedicated to the industrial logistics and service robotics market. ANT® has been referred to as the most advanced navigation product on the market!
March 2008: EURON / EUnited Robotics Award
BlueBotics won the 2. prize of the 2008 EURON / EUnited Robotics Technology Transfer Award. The company has presented ANT® as a successful technology transfer with the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne). ANT® is the reference product of BlueBotics permitting competing in the logistics automation and entering the emerging service robotics market.
November 2007: CTI startup label
BlueBotics is awarded with the CTI startup label certifying the company as "ready for sustainable business development". CTI startup, the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation, promotes the immediate benefit of the scientific and technology knowledge worked out by researchers and entrepreneurs.
October 2007: AMV-1 at the REHACARE, Düsseldorf
The rehabilitation company Otto Bock has presented the AMV-1 at the REHACARE trade fair, October 15-18, 2007, in Düsseldorf. Otto Bock is our partner in the development of the AMV-1 autonomous modular vehicle solution.
September 2007: go.automation trade fair, Basel
BlueBotics has participated with the Swiss Mobile robotics Consortium at the go.automation trade fair, Switzerland largest automation trade fair, which took place on September 4-7, 2007 in Basel. The positive feedback received all over the go.automation week is a push to increase the activity in the industrial field.
July 2007: FSR conference, Chamonix
BlueBotics SA was present with the largest booth at the Field and Service Robotics conference (FSR, July 9-12 2007, Chamonix, France).
June 2007: GESO Robotic Event, Lausanne
BlueBotics has co-organized with GESO (Groupement Electronique de Suisse Occidentale) and EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) an event with the title: "Robotics in movement: Opportunities for the industry". The event was addressed to the industrial big players of the region to present the innovative solutions that can be applied to classical industrial automation.
June 2007: EUnited Robotics' European Service Robotics, Brussels
BlueBotics has been invited to present its activities for the EUnited Robotics event named "European Service Robotics - Teaming up for a Growth Market". The goal of the event is to start an initiative to bring together the service robotics players in Europe.
April 2007: IEEE/IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award
BlueBotics SA has received the IEEE/IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Finalist Award for Nesbot™, the new service robot developed with Nestlé Nespresso SA, which has been presented as world premiere at the ICRA 2007 conference in Rome. The award final took place during the IEEE-IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation (IERA), on April 10 2007, Rome, Italy. Look at the program.
April 2007: ICRA 2007, Rome
BlueBotics SA was present with the largest booth at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, April 10-14 2007, Rome, Italy). ICRA is the world largest research conference in robotics.
The company has presented as world premiere Nesbot™ the new service robot developed with Nestlé Nespresso SA and selected for the IEEE/IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award. If you want to know more, check our portfolio.
March 2007: Georges Giralt PhD Award
Dr. Pierre Lamon, our scientific manager, received the Georges Giralt PhD Award during the EURON annual meeting in Chaina, Crete, on March 28. The Georges Giralt PhD Award is an annual award given by EURON for the best PhD thesis in Europe. Pierre has been awarded for his research "3D Position Tracking for all-terrain Robots", which was terminated in 2005.
November 2006: The Consortium is getting bigger
Founded end of 2004 by four companies from the Lake Geneva area (BlueBotics, Cyberbotics, FiveCo and K-TEAM), the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium is adding Neuronics, Zurich and GCtronic, Mendrisio to its membership, thus now representing all Swiss linguistic regions. The consortium has been established to promote the use of new robot technologies at an industrial level and to create and improve the awareness of today's and tomorrow's Mobile Robotics market. Its members, each specialist experts in their own fields, offer innovative and complementary competencies and technologies, which can be easily interfaced to meet market requirements of any size and complexity.
July 2006: Automation with BlueBotics and Esatroll
BlueBotics SA and Esatroll SA join their
effort to strengthen their position in the automation segment. Esatroll develops, markets and integrates AGVs.
BlueBotics has found with Esatroll the ideal partner for the introduction of
ANT® into the Italian logistics market. On
the other side, with this collaboration, Esatroll expects to extend its market
to Switzerland and France. Note that Esatroll is the only integrator in Italy
able to install AGVs up to 16 tons and 9 meters long.
With this partnership, BlueBotics expects to extend its activities to the
automation segment while keeping the same growth in the service robotics field.
July 2006: Shrimp III into Webots
BlueBotics and Cyberbotics are working
on the model of the Shrimp III to be included in Webots, the mobile robotics
simulation software of Cyberbotics. The modeling of Shrimp III will take full advantage of the
3D physical simulation tool and its complex 3D environments.
Once a behavior is programmed in the simulator, it can directly be played on the real robot.
It is even possible to run both the simulation and the real robot simultaneously!
May 2006: BlueBotics at ELROB with Smart-Team
BlueBotics SA technically supports and sponsors the
Smart-Team, a Swiss and German team participating to the
ELROB event - the 1st European Land-Robot Trial.
BlueBotics joined the team with the slogan "Robots without guns" in order to
make clear its position regarding military applications which are out of the scope of the
company. BlueBotics managed to put the Asimov's first law of robotics on the
team's car: "A robot may not injure a human being,
or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm".
February 2006: BlueBotics in Japan
BlueBotics SA has been invited by the Japan External Trade Organization
(JETRO) to create a strong cooperation
in the field of robotic industry.
Osaka city wants the Kansai region to become the "Silicon Valley" of robotics. The
"JETRO Invitation Program for the Robot Sector" is looking for robotics
companies in order to build up this market together with the local companies. The
Kansai region is known worldwide due to the presence of big players, such as
MATSUSHITA-PANASONIC, SANYO and SHARP.
BlueBotics SA is now starting some projects in this region and plans to build up
cooperation with several companies by means of innovative service robotics concepts.
October 7th, 2005: BlueBotics member of the EUROP initiative
BlueBotics was in Brussels, when Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Information Society
and Media, officially launched the European Robotics Platform EUROP,
as part of her i2010 initiative.
The EUROP platform brings together more than 50 companies with the common objective to strengthen and develop
the current and future generation of European robotics industry. These include leaders in industrial robotics such
as KUKA, ABB, COMAU and REIS, service and consumer product suppliers like Philips and Electrolux, and service and
systems suppliers such as SAFRAN, EADS, THALES, and FINMECCANICA. Many high-tech SMEs also participate in the venture
representing 70% of the stakeholders involved, BlueBotics being one of them.
More here...
July 1st, 2005: RoboX in Scotland
Since July 2005, RoboX is greeting
visitors at the Sensation Science Centre
in Dundee, Scotland.
Equipped with ANT®, our tour-guiding
robot is patrolling to present the attractions of the Science Centre and to introduce the recently
inaugurated RoboRealm exhibition.
April 11, 2005: Technology meets Arts - "Robots - Roses for Jusinka"
BlueBotics is providing its experience to an innovative artistic project:
"Robots - Roses for Jusinka".
(See also the Press Coverage and the
official web site).
BlueBotics has delivered three robots that will act in a theater play together with two human actors.
The development of these robots was done in collaboration with the ECAL
for the aesthetical design and with the EPFL for the
theater application software.
The concept of the play was presented for the first time on April 11 during "La Magistrale",
the EPFL Graduation ceremony.
October 22, 2004: Distribution of the Shrimp III by AAI
Applied AI Systems, Inc., Ottawa, Canada and BlueBotics SA signed a distribution agreement about the Shrimp III covering USA, Canada and Asia. This agreement widens the Shrimp III distribution worldwide.
October 20, 2004: World ROBOTICS
BlueBotics participated as exhibitor to the World ROBOTICS, Conference and Exhibition, in the Palais des Nations, Geneva.
This event was organized by United Nations - Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
and the European Robotics Research Network (EURON).
Sept. 30, 2004: BlueBotics Newsletter!
Now you can subscribe to BlueBotics' Newsletter! It will keep you informed on our latest products and developments. Check out the link on the left of this page!
Sept. 27, 2004: Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium
In order to better serve our customers, BlueBotics has started with other Swiss robotics companies, the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium, where industry oriented robotics experts propose a wide offer of complementary knowhow with a single partner.
August 19, 2004: ANT® is a registered trade mark
ANT® stands for Autonomous Navigation Technology and is the key product of BlueBotics SA. ANT® is since August a registered trade mark of BlueBotics. More information can be found at the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce