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ek robotics and OTTO Motors announce technology partnership
ek robotics, manufacturer and system integrator of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), announced its global technology partnership with OTTO Motors, a developer of autonomous mobile robots (AMR), at Logimat.
For 59 years now, ek robotics has been developing, manufacturing and integrating turnkey AGVs and supporting them throughout their entire life cycle. "Our aim is to always be able to offer our customers the most efficient, safest and most reliable solution," says Andreas Böttner, CEO of ek robotics, and continues: "AMR technology has developed rapidly in recent years and, above all, to a level that is now suitable for industrial use, which is why we are now expanding our range of services to include this technology. We have analyzed the AMR market very thoroughly in order to find the really best partner with the most conductive technology. Today, we are pleased and proud to announce our strategic technology partnership with OTTO Motors and to be able to offer our customers the absolute leading AMR technology in our products in the future."
OTTO Motors is a pioneer in the AMR industry, specializing in large, mission-critical AMR installations for the world's largest companies. With more than 10 years of experience in autonomous driving, OTTO Motors has developed control software for autonomous material handling. The industrial trucks equipped with OTTO software can navigate in rapidly changing industrial environments without infrastructure, just like a human-driven vehicle.
"ek robotics is the undisputed AGV market leader. We are proud of our partnership that allows us to provide our customers with the most powerful and comprehensive material handling vehicle hardware capabilities controlled by OTTO Motors' autonomy software," says Matt Rendall, CEO of OTTO Motors, and continues: "The result is a solution that enables industrial companies and warehouse operators to increase their competitiveness in an incredibly challenging economic environment."
Together, ek robotics and OTTO Motors are expanding their global reach to offer customers the AMR portfolio. ek robotics is now offering the AMR transport platform X MOVE 150 and X MOVE 2000. The variants with 300, 600 and 1200 kilogram payloads are currently only available as AGVs and will also be available as AMRs in early 2023. With the X MOVE transport platform, customers can choose between AMR and AGV technology as required. ek robotics and OTTO Motors are already working on being able to offer the VARIO MOVE forklift series as an AMR as soon as possible so that all ek robotics transport robots can be equipped with OTTO technology in the next step.
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