Batch Robotics · Munich
70% of European manufacturing is still done by hand.
Programming a robot for small batches has never been economical.
Challenge
Reprogramming a robot for one new part variant takes 1–4 hours of a specialist’s time. Typical batch sizes in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing are 1–100 pieces. Traditional automation would never pay for itself.
So the work stays manual. The hardware was never the bottleneck. Somebody has to tell the robot what to do, every single time, and that one requirement keeps most of European manufacturing off automation altogether.
What we’re building
Not through rigid programming, and not by human demonstration. Four problems have to be solved at once, and none of them is solved by a bigger model or a humanoid.
A new part shows up. Nobody has taught it, scanned it or modeled it. Nobody has the hours to.
Moving an arm from A to B is solved. What the tool does to the material is the half customers pay for.
Processing a part it was trained on is a demo. Processing a part the system has never seen or been trained on is the product.
All of it can hold up in simulation. Making it run 24/7 in a real factory is the hard part.
The team
One exit, three Magazino veterans and a PhD in motion planning. Roughly 50 years of robotics experience in the room. Nobody here is doing this for the first time.
Co-founded drag&bot, the Fraunhofer IPA spin-off for no-code robot programming, and sold it to KEBA in 2021. Ten years building the commercial side of software robotics.
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More than nine years at Magazino, most recently head of hardware, covering mechanics, electronics and software from prototype through to series release.
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Five-year PhD in robot motion planning, AI learning and human–robot interaction.
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M.Sc. Physics, nine years at Magazino and co-inventor on two patents. Came to us from the DLR Galileo Competence Center.
Researched in-hand manipulation at the TUM AIDX Lab. CDTM alumnus, and has co-founded before.
TUM Engineering Science, continuing into Robotics, Cognition & Intelligence. Three years at Infineon. Turns metal on a lathe and MIG-welds.
10+ years of electromechanical design in robotics, from concept to prototype. Previously on Magazino’s SOTO.
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No wrapper apps. No papers that sit on a shelf. The AI you build here runs on a machine that a shift worker switches on tomorrow morning.
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