Company
The major hurdle for broader and more versatile utilization of industrial robots in manufacturing, logistics and many other application domains is lack of flexibility and accessibility. Software plays a crucial part regarding the easy operation of industrial robots, in particular making them perform complex tasks in a robust, sensor-adaptive manner.
Who We Are
ArtiMinds Robotics GmbH is a company from Karlsruhe, Germany, in the field of robotic manipulation. Filling the gap between the latest research on autonomous robots and classical industrial robots, ArtiMinds specializes in extremely fast and intuitive generation of complex, sensor-adaptive motion programs for robot arms, grippers and tools.
We have put the latest technologies in machine learning, motion planning and motion control for robotic manipulation into a robust, easy to use and widely applicable software product. It allows to push industrial application of robotic manipulation towards small lot sizes and processes with significant variance.
Our proprietary technology consists of a powerful, general representation of flexible robotic manipulation tasks as well as versatile methods to generate such task models from diverse, intuitive inputs. Embedded into the RPS product, it makes new robotic applications accessible for profitable industrial use. Fast, focused development cycles continually expand the range of products to bring benefits to ever more application types.
Our Management Team
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Sven R. Schmidt-Rohr
CEO
Co-founder
Strategy, Collaborations, Finance, Personnel
Sven received his Diploma (~M.S.) in Computer Science (CS), summa cum laude, from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and was awarded a prize for one of the two best Diploma theses of the CS faculty in that year. He received his Dr.-Ing. (~Eng. PhD) in intuitive robot programming from KIT, summa cum laude, and his scientific PhD thesis was awarded a prize for being the best of the CS faculty in that year.
He started as an undergraduate research assistant in the field of intuitive robot programming in 2002 and has dealt with that topic ever since.
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Rainer Jäkel
CTO
Co-founder
Technology, Product Roadmap, IPR
Rainer received his Diploma (~M.S.), summa cum laude, in Computer Science from KIT and his Dr.-Ing. (~Eng. PhD), summa cum laude, in intuitive robot programming also from KIT. For his fundamental contributions to robotics he was awarded the prestigious Georges Giralt PhD award for the ex aequo best PhD thesis in all of robotics in Europe 2013 and as Technology Review Top5 Innovator under 35 in Germany in 2013.
He started his endeavour into intuitive robot programming with hobby projects on the educational humanoid robot Bioloid in 2006, followed by a job as undergraduate research assistant in 2007. Ever since he has been pushing the technological boundaries of robotic manipulation to generate and execute respective task models.
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Gerhard Dirschl
SVP Engineering, CIO
Co-founder
Hardware Integration, Releases, Q&S, IT
Gerhard received his Diploma (~M.S.) in Computer Science from KIT.
He has been an undergraduate research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dillmann since 2008, dealing with intuitive robot programming and robot task models ever since. With his vast knowledge of software development and IT he makes sure that ArtiMinds products are robust, maintainable, portable and yet cutting-edge.
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Simon Fischer
SVP Sales
Co-founder
Sales, Marketing, Project Management
Simon received his Diploma (~M.S.) in Electrical Engineering from KIT including a two-year period of studies in Paris and Madrid. He completed his academic career with an MBA from the collège des ingénieurs in Paris.
He started his professional career in 2007 at Siemens in sales and project management for locomotives. After 5 years and successful delivery of 60 locomotives, he joined the Siemens internal management consultancy SMC where he got involved in various businesses ranging from wind turbines to electrical switches and different challenges from restructuring and process optimization to M&A and strategy development.
Awards
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2016
Focus Digital Star Award - Editor's Choice
(national award for high-tech startups)
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2015
Robot Launch - Best European Startup
(international, robotics specific award)
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2015
WECONOMY Gewinner
(national award for high-tech startups)
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2015
National award "Land der Ideen"
(national award, focus on innovations for a digital world)
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![ESA BIC [Robotics] Start-Up Award](../img/logos/esabic.png)
2014
ESA BIC [Robotics] Start-Up Award 2014: 2nd Place
(international, robotics specific award)
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2013
CyberChampions 2013 - BestConcept: 1st Place
(regional award)
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2013
Gründerwettbewerb IKT Innovativ 1/2013: Hauptpreis
(Founders challenge - ICT innovative: main prize, national award)
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Our History
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2015
At the beginning of 2015, selected external beta testers use the RPS for real robot applications. After positive feedback, the RPS is ready for general sales. Subsequently, sales of the RPS start in several countries.
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2014
Public world premiere of a demonstrator of the RPS software and its capabilities at Automatica 2014. Despite being only 11 months old and still in semi-stealth mode, ArtiMinds is chosen by a robotics industry expert jury for the 2nd Place in what they considered the most promising robotics startups up to 3 years old as recognized by the ESA BIC Start-up Award
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2013
The founders realize the commercial opportunity for some aspects of intuitive robot programming concerning complex industrial manipulation tasks. While winning several awards and scholarships, the company ArtiMinds Robotics GmbH is founded in July and product development for the RPS starts from the scratch.
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2012
The founders gather extensive experience in robot task model generation on different levels of task abstraction from 2002-2012 as undergraduate and graduate researchers in various national and collaborative international research projects at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab. A clear understanding about the obstacles and limitations concerning contemporary task models in robotics arises. New ideas are explored and many research prototypes developed and tested on real service robot applications.
Public Projects
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2015 -
2016EU FP7 - ECHORD++ experiment - DexBuddy :
ArtiMinds is the coordinator of the ECHORD++ experiment DexBuddy, investigating intuitive programming of flexible, dexterous cable manipulation by next-generation industrial robots. -
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2015Baden-Württemberg smartbusiness IT - RoBioTool :
ArtiMinds is the coordinator of the smartbusiness IT project RoBioTool, investigating next-generation, flexible and intuitive robot work-cells for frequently changing bio-medical laboratory tasks.