Artiminds Robotics – our vision

Finally, indus­try events are tak­ing place again with­out any restric­tions. ArtiMinds is present at numer­ous trade fairs and events, which are just as well attended as before the pan­demic. With the com­plete return to nor­mal­ity in the ini­ti­a­tion of per­sonal con­tacts, the acqui­si­tion of new cus­tomers is also reach­ing a scale never seen before. As a result, a con­tin­u­ous expan­sion of the team is now also tak­ing place.
The net­work of part­ners with com­ple­men­tary prod­ucts is also expand­ing rapidly.
New devel­op­ments in the areas of “col­lab­o­ra­tive engi­neer­ing”, “process ana­lyt­ics” and “AI-based opti­mi­sa­tion” are being dri­ven for­ward together with cus­tomers in com­mer­cial appli­ca­tions, fur­ther broad­en­ing the func­tion­al­i­ties of the prod­uct suite.

The pan­demic dis­ap­pears in the rearview mir­ror. ArtiMinds is again present at trade fairs, some of which are already prop­erly attended again. On the tech­ni­cal side, “Teach Point Opti­mi­sa­tion” goes into con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion in a series pro­duc­tion for the first time. In the field of AI, var­i­ous basic devel­op­ments are advanced and published.

Lock­downs still dom­i­nate, which means that the usual indus­try events do not take place. Nev­er­the­less, ArtiMinds devel­ops new solu­tions with exist­ing cus­tomers and opens up var­i­ous fields of application.
The ded­i­cated Inno­Lab is now pick­ing up speed, struc­tur­ing and bundling the devel­op­ments in the field of AI.

The year is all about Covid-19. Even under the chal­leng­ing con­di­tions, ArtiMinds sup­ports var­i­ous com­pa­nies from var­i­ous indus­tries with its soft­ware prod­ucts in bring­ing new robot appli­ca­tions into series oper­a­tion. Con­cepts for online train­ing and remote main­te­nance are play­ing a big­ger role in the cur­rent context.

The office space in the Tech­nolo­giepark Karl­sruhe is again enlarged by addi­tional expan­sion areas to 1,900 square meters. A ded­i­cated test envi­ron­ment is set up in which ArtiMinds car­ries out tests and fea­si­bil­ity stud­ies of robot appli­ca­tions for cus­tomers on over a dozen robots of var­i­ous manufacturers.
Dur­ing the first months of 2019, selected exter­nal beta testers are able to test ArtiMinds Learn­ing & Ana­lyt­ics for Robots (LAR) for the first time with real robot appli­ca­tions. After pos­i­tive feed­back, soft­ware sales starts reg­u­larly from autumn.

The office space in the Tech­nolo­giepark Karl­sruhe is enlarged by two new expan­sion areas. ArtiMinds now has pay­ing cus­tomers in over a dozen indus­tries in 20 coun­tries world­wide. ArtiMinds RPS is deployed in com­pa­nies of all sizes, whether medium-sized busi­nesses or global com­pa­nies. At trade fairs such as Auto­mat­ica in Munich and MOTEK in Stuttgart, ArtiMinds unveils its lat­est prod­uct ArtiMinds Learn­ing & Ana­lyt­ics for Robots (LAR) for the first time. In autumn, ArtiMinds opens its ArtiMinds Acad­emy in Karl­sruhe to fur­ther improve the train­ing expe­ri­ence and quadru­ple its train­ing capacity.

The new larger office at Tech­nolo­giepark Karl­sruhe offers suf­fi­cient space for a steady growth. After 2016 our CEO Dr. Sven Schmidt-Rohr gets awarded the sec­ond year in suc­ces­sion with Cap­i­tal Mag­a­zines “Top 40 below 40“ award, that hon­ours aspir­ing excec­u­tives and polit­i­cal talents.With the suc­cess­ful par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Ger­man Accel­er­a­tor pro­gram, the com­pany opens a branch in New York City.

At the begin­ning of 2016 ArtiMinds moves out from the premises of the Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (KIT). The new office in the Tech­nolo­giepark Karl­sruhe pro­vides the frame­work for the growth of the young com­pany. By win­ning two national awards (Focus Dig­i­tal Star Award and Start­MeUp Award of the Bilanz Mag­a­zine) the com­pany stays in the cen­ter of atten­tion at trade shows and exhi­bi­tions. With the team grow­ing in num­bers and expe­ri­ence, ArtiMinds releases ver­sion 1.3 with new and extended fea­tures of the Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite.

Dur­ing the first months of 2015, selected exter­nal beta testers receive their copy of ArtiMinds RPS for test­ing the soft­ware with real robot appli­ca­tions. After pos­i­tive feed­back, sales of ArtiMinds Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite starts reg­u­larly from sum­mer onwards in sev­eral countries.

The founders rec­og­nize the com­mer­cial poten­tial of intu­itive robot pro­gram­ming for com­plex indus­trial manip­u­la­tion tasks. While win­ning sev­eral awards and schol­ar­ships, the com­pany ArtiMinds Robotics GmbH is founded in July as a spin-off of the Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (KIT) and prod­uct devel­op­ment for ArtiMinds RPS starts from scratch.

The com­pany founders have gath­ered exten­sive expe­ri­ence in robot task model gen­er­a­tion on dif­fer­ent lev­els of task abstrac­tion from 2002-2013 as under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate researchers in var­i­ous national and col­lab­o­ra­tive inter­na­tional research projects at t Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (KIT), Humanoids and Intel­li­gence Sys­tems Lab. A clear under­stand­ing of the obsta­cles and lim­i­ta­tions con­cern­ing con­tem­po­rary robotics tech­nolo­gies led to the explo­ration of inno­v­a­tive ideas. Numer­ous research pro­to­types were devel­oped and tested suc­cess­fully in real robot applications.