
Acquisition (www.industrial-production.de)
Neura Robotics takes over ek robotics
ek robotics, manufacturer of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), has found a new owner in Neura Robotics. This secures the company's long-term future.

Acquisition (www.computer-automation.de)
Neura Robotics takes over ek robotics
ek robotics, manufacturer of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), has found a new owner in Neura Robotics. This secures the company's long-term future.

Robotics company (www.industrial-production.de)
ek robotics files for the initiation of preliminary insolvency proceedings
ek robotics has filed an application for the initiation of provisional insolvency proceedings under self-administration with the competent local court in Hamburg. The court has ordered provisional self-administration.

Industrial trucks (www.industrial-production.de)
Outdoor AGV networks production and logistics
An international company in the plastics industry is automating its intralogistics at its German site with a solution from ek robotics. A specially developed vehicle model from the Out Move series, an outdoor AGV, is being used.

Industrial trucks (www.materialfluss.de)
Outdoor AGV networks production and logistics
An international company in the plastics industry is automating its intralogistics at its German site with a solution from ek robotics. A specially developed vehicle model from the Out Move series, an outdoor AGV, is being used.

Automated guided vehicles (www.materialfluss.de)
Efficiency boost for the refractory industry
In one of the more modern plants in the refractory industry, transport processes are now almost fully automated: at RHI Magnesita in Radenthein, Austria - from the provision of raw materials to shipping. Twelve customized automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from EK robotics handle the internal material flow around the clock.

Automated guided vehicles (www.industrial-production.de)
AGVs for safe processes in medical technology
A leading German medical technology company has comprehensively modernized its intralogistics - with an individual AGV overall concept from ek robotics. The aim was to achieve a consistently safe, efficiently synchronized material flow along the process chain - from sterilization to storage.

Automated guided vehicles (www.materialfluss.de)
AGVs for safe processes in medical technology
A leading German medical technology company has comprehensively modernized its intralogistics - with an individual AGV overall concept from ek robotics. The aim was to achieve a consistently safe, efficiently synchronized material flow along the process chain - from sterilization to storage.

3.5 million glass containers daily (www.materialfluss.de)
Wiegand-Glas automates with AGVs from ek robotics
The Wiegand-Glas Group, a provider of glass and PET packaging solutions, has been relying on automated guided vehicles from ek robotics to optimize its intralogistics processes for over two decades. The third AGV system within the group has been in operation at the Schleusingen site in Thuringia since June 2020.

Logimat 2025: Practical robotics on show live (www.materialfluss.de)
60 years in transportation
ek robotics presents itself in Stuttgart as an AGV manufacturer with decades of expertise in transport robotics.

Automated guided vehicles (www.materialfluss.de)
Supply and disposal of printing machines by AGV
Numerous companies rely on AGVs in intralogistics to increase efficiency and meet challenges such as the shortage of skilled workers. One such company is GGP Media GmbH in Pößneck, Thuringia.

Relocation to Hamburg Veddel (www.materialfluss.de)
New headquarters for ek robotics
The keys to ek robotics' new company headquarters in Hamburg's Veddel district were handed over in November 2023. With the move into the new innovation and production center, the manufacturer and system integrator of high-tech transport robotics is now one of Hamburg's industrial companies.

Transportation systems (www.materialfluss.de)
Several national banks rely on AGVs from ek robotics
On behalf of a German company for currency and security technologies, three and soon a total of six driverless transport systems from ek robotics are currently optimizing the intralogistics processes in three central banks worldwide.

Personnel (www.materialfluss.de)
ek robotics expands management board
The management of the Hamburg-based AGV manufacturer ek robotics was expanded on March 1, 2024 with Martin C. Klein and Andreas Lindemann, two experienced managers. Andreas J. Böttner will join the company's new advisory board in July.

Mobile transport robots (www.materialfluss.de)
Forward-looking AGV for pharmaceutical manufacturers
New partnership for efficient intralogistics processes: A company in the pharmaceutical industry has opted for a transport solution from EK Robotics to sustainably optimize intralogistics processes at a Swiss site.

Conveyor technology and intralogistics (www.computer-automation.de)
CIO of ek robotics takes over as CEO
Jan Drömer, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at ek robotics, is taking over the chairmanship of the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association for the next two years.

Industrial trucks (www.materialfluss.de)
Automated guided vehicle system for Sinit plastics plants
The expert for plastic parts and assemblies made of thermoplastics has expanded its production logistics at the Bad Schwalbach site with three new transport robots from EK Robotics.

ek robotics (www.computer-automation.de)
Check-up for the FTS
With the analysis tool 'Sara' (for Smart Analytics Reporting Application) from ek robotics, customers and operators of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can analyze their systems.

Automated guided vehicles (www.materialfluss.de)
Smart check-up for AGVs
With the Smart Analytics Reporting Application (SARA), transport robotics specialist EK Robotics has developed a tool for customers and operators of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to comprehensively analyze their own systems in a short space of time.

Production logistics (www.industrial-production.de)
Automated guided vehicle system at Roche
New partnership: The pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann - La Roche has opted for an automated guided vehicle system (AGV) from ek robotics to optimize its material flows.

Fork lift truck (www.materialfluss.de)
Automated guided vehicle systems for washing machines
The domestic appliance manufacturer Miele develops and produces a large proportion of its washing machines and washer-dryers at its Gütersloh plant. Pressed and cast components are also produced here for the other Miele plants.

Transport robotics (www.materialfluss.de)
Automated guided vehicles
With its largest Logimat appearance to date, the high-tech company for transport robotics, ek robotics, presented a multitude of product highlights, show cases and innovations - even more AGV and AMR vehicles and exciting load cycles of its automated guided vehicles (AGVs) - on a stand area of over 200 m².

Branch office in Hungary (www.materialfluss.de)
ek robotics expands in Eastern Europe
On February 1, 2023, ek robotics opens a new location in Hungary. Tamás Zahornitzky is appointed Managing Director of the new branch in Budapest.

ek robotics (www.computer-automation.de)
Expansion in Eastern Europe
On February 1, 2023, the transport robotics provider ek robotics opens a location in Hungary. Tamás Zahornitzky is appointed Managing Director of the branch in Budapest.

Economic survey (www.materialfluss.de)
We expect our industry to continue to develop very positively
Our eleven for 23: In the exclusive survey by materialfluss, eleven experts assess where the journey is heading this year. Andreas J. Böttner, CEO of ek Robotics, is one of them.

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Smart Move - the right choice for special tasks too
The automotive supplier Brose manufactures door systems, window regulators and electronic components at its Bavarian site in Hallstadt near Bamberg.

Smart Analytics Reporting App presented (www.materialfluss.de)
The smart check-up for the AGV
Establishing complex correlations, analyzing the current status and making recommendations on how to make things run even better - all possible with SARA. The analysis tool from EK Robotics is an aid to examining the efficiency of an automated guided vehicle system (AGV).

Global together (www.materialfluss.de)
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.

ek robotics (www.computer-automation.de)
Can be used either as an AGV or as an AMR
The X Move transport platform from ek robotics combines features of the AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles) and AMR technology worlds in one model.

Logimat 2022 (www.materialfluss.de)
ek robotics variable transport robots
Following the rebranding and change of name from E&K Automation to ek robotics, the transport robotics specialist will be presenting its new design at Logimat.

X Move: the best of both worlds?
Automated transport systems increase efficiency, flexibility and safety in production and warehouse logistics. If you want to automate your intralogistics, you can opt for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) or Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR).

Production of the future (www.materialfluss.de)
On the way to intelligent, autonomous transport robots
The development continues: the smart, automated production of the future will require transport robots that have capabilities such as autonomous journey planning and people recognition, are capable of learning and can "think for themselves".

Completion 2023 (www.materialfluss.de)
Start of construction of the new EK Robotics headquarters
On October 14, the ground-breaking ceremony for the future EK Robotics headquarters took place on the Elbe island of Veddel in Hamburg.

Transport robots (www.industrial-production.de)
Under a new name
EK Automation has been operating as ek robotics since July 1, 2021.

Logistics systems (www.computer-automation.de)
New products for Logimat 2019
What is currently happening on the market in the areas of material flow and process management? Computer&AUTOMATION has compiled an excerpt of what exhibitors are showing at the Logimat 2019 logistics trade fair in Stuttgart in a series of images.

Material flow / handling (www.computer-automation.de)
AGVs and robots - cornerstones of modern intralogistics
Increasing efficiency is a requirement that applies not only to the production process, but also to upstream and downstream warehouses. An example from the beverage industry shows what modern automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can achieve in this context.
