Robotics startup ecosystem
European robotics startups are advancing warehouse automation, surgical robots, agricultural drones, and industrial inspection. Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland lead in hardware innovation, with growing software layers for autonomy. We track 97 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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No Isolation
No Isolation is a Norwegian scale-up founded in 2015 that develops telepresence robots to combat social isolation. Its flagship product, the AV1 robot, serves as a physical avatar in classrooms for children with long-term illness or special education needs, keeping them connected to school and peers when they cannot attend. The company now serves over 900 customers across 19 countries with more than 3,000 AV1 units deployed in around 2,500 schools, supporting over 10,000 children. No Isolation won the 2025 EURORDIS Company Award for Health Technology.
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Nomagic
Nomagic was founded in 2017 in Warsaw by Kacper Nowicki, Marek Cygan, and Tristan d'Orgeval. The company builds AI-powered robotic pick-and-place systems for warehouse order fulfilment, training its models on large volumes of real-world operational data. It raised a $22M Series A in 2022 backed by Khosla Ventures and Almaz Capital, with subsequent rounds bringing total funding above $80M, making it one of the most heavily funded Polish robotics companies.
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Odense Robotics
Odense Robotics is Denmark's national robotics and automation cluster, connecting companies, universities, and public partners in the Odense region. The hub supports startups through business development, talent programs, and investor matchmaking, and it helps scale a dense robotics supply chain anchored by global leaders. Odense Robotics also promotes Denmark internationally as a robotics hub and drives collaboration in areas like drones, cobots, and industrial automation. It is a key engine behind Denmark's robot valley reputation.
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Open Circle Capital
Open Circle Capital is a Vilnius-based early-stage fund founded in 2017, backed two-thirds by the Lithuanian public institution INVEGA and one-third by private investors, with a mandate to invest up to €20 million in the commercialisation of Baltic technology. The fund targets ICT, robotics, high-tech, AI, and IoT companies primarily in Lithuania and Northern Europe, writing seed-stage cheques. Its 17-company portfolio has recorded three acquisitions — Frontu, Eddy Travels, and Paysolut — and the partners collectively bring experience spanning more than 80 technology-transfer transactions and seven previous funds. The team has prior exit history with global acquirers including Facebook, Saab, and Eli Lilly.
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Origin Robotics
Origin Robotics is a Latvian defence-tech company founded in 2022 by Agris Kipurs and Ilja Nevdah in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company develops advanced autonomous UAV systems combining AI computer vision with cost-effective hardware. Its flagship BEAK system is a man-portable, mid-range precision-guided weapon with a 15 km reach already deployed by Latvian and Ukrainian armed forces, while BLAZE is an autonomous counter-UAS interceptor using radar and AI vision. Origin has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding led by Change Ventures and secured an additional €4.5 million European Defence Fund grant.
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PaintExpo 2026
World's leading trade fair for industrial coating technology, held in Karlsruhe with 500+ exhibitors and 10,000+ trade visitors. Covers surface treatment, powder coating, automation, and quality control. Day tickets cost about EUR 30-50. Relevant for materials science, robotics, and industrial automation startups serving the manufacturing sector.
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PaintExpo 2028
PaintExpo's next edition is confirmed for 25-28 April 2028 in Karlsruhe, following the successful conclusion of PaintExpo 2026. The world's leading trade fair for industrial coating technology covers surface treatment, powder coating, automation, and quality control for the manufacturing sector.
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Photoneo
Photoneo is a Bratislava-based robotics and machine-vision company focused on giving industrial automation systems reliable 3D perception in difficult physical environments. Its technology is built for tasks where standard 2D imaging or lower-quality depth sensing breaks down, such as picking mixed objects from bins, sorting items on fast-moving lines, or guiding industrial robots through high-precision work. That makes Photoneo important in the real economy layer of European tech, where better software alone is not enough and the limiting factor is accurate machine perception tied to physical execution. The company therefore sits at the intersection of robotics, manufacturing, logistics, and AI-enabled industrial automation. In ecosystem terms, it is a strong example of Slovak deep-tech with direct relevance to fulfillment, production, and warehouse efficiency across Europe. It also complements other automation businesses in the directory by representing the sensing layer that physical automation depends on before workflow software and robotics orchestration can deliver full value.
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Pieter-Jan Note
Co-founder and CEO of MAHI, working on autonomous and maritime technology solutions. He is a confirmed speaker at the DroneHorizon summit during Port of the Future Week 2026 in Antwerp, addressing autonomous systems for ports.
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Port of the Future Week 2026 (September 2026)
A three-day showcase of autonomous and sustainable port technology at Quay 102 in Antwerp, with live demos, expert sessions and international cross-port collaboration. It opens with DroneHorizon, a B2B and B2G matchmaking summit on unmanned and autonomous systems for ports and critical infrastructure, positioning Antwerp as a European testbed for future port operations.
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Renaud Heitz
Co-founder and CTO of Exotec, leading the engineering behind its autonomous warehouse robots. He co-founded the company with Romain Moulin in 2015.
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Robeauté
Develops grain-of-rice-sized microrobots designed to navigate inside the human brain to deliver therapeutic molecules, implant electrodes or collect cellular data, aiming to make neurosurgery safer and more precise for conditions including glioblastoma.
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Robovision
Robovision provides Industrial Vision Intelligence Infrastructure — a no-code platform that governs AI vision systems at scale across food & beverage, packaging, semiconductor and horticulture manufacturing. Rather than building one-off vision models, customers deploy Robovision to monitor, adapt and standardise all vision inspection points across multi-site operations as production conditions change. Founded in 2013 in Ghent by Jonathan Berte and Tim Waegeman, the company raised $42 M in Series A funding in 2024 led by Target Global, Astanor Ventures and Red River West, bringing total funding to $65 M. Robovision employs 130+ people and is expanding in the US and Europe.
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Romain Moulin
Co-founder and CEO of Exotec, the warehouse-robotics company behind the Skypod system. He turned the Lille-based startup into France's first industrial-tech unicorn, serving global retailers.
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Semirobotics
Semirobotics is a Warsaw-based medtech robotics startup that developed FIDI, an assistive feeding robot designed for people with upper-limb disabilities who cannot eat independently. The system combines 3D vision, AI-based motion planning, and adaptive utensils to align with the user's posture, pace, and food preferences, restoring dignity and autonomy during meals. Semirobotics targets hospitals, care homes, and individual users, addressing a significant unmet need in assistive technology. The company is part of Poland's emerging robotics and medtech scene and has received EU innovation funding.
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SIDO Lyon 2026
SIDO Lyon is Europe's leading B2B show for IoT, AI, robotics, and XR, organised by Infopro Digital Trade Shows at the Cité Internationale de Lyon on 16–17 September 2026. The 2026 edition gathers 300+ exhibitors and around 210 speakers across some 70 conference sessions, with dedicated zones for sustainable tech (Impact by SIDO) and collaborative robotics (Innorobo by SIDO).
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SPS Italia 2026
SPS Italia 2026 was the 14th edition of Italy's leading trade fair for industrial automation and digital manufacturing, held 26-28 May 2026 at Fiere di Parma and organised by Messe Frankfurt Italia. The edition drew 37,528 attendees and 720 exhibitors across six pavilions, built around five core themes — cyber security, AI agents, software-defined manufacturing, robotics & Physical AI, and ESG. A Digital District (Industrial IT, Focus AI, Start-Ups, Academy), 50+ conferences across three arenas, and the SPS Italia UP Challenge for startups make it a key selling and partnership venue for industrial-tech founders.
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SPS Italia 2027
Italy's leading trade fair for industrial automation and digital manufacturing returns to Fiere di Parma for its 15th edition, running 25-27 May 2027, organised by Messe Frankfurt Italia. The 2026 edition drew 37,528 attendees and 720 exhibitors across cyber security, AI agents, software-defined manufacturing, robotics, and ESG themes.
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Starship Technologies
Starship Technologies is a Tallinn-founded robotics company building autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for last-mile grocery, food, and package delivery. Founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, the company has completed millions of commercial deliveries across the US, UK, and Europe. Starship's six-wheeled robots navigate sidewalks using computer vision and sensor fusion, and have raised over $100 million in funding. The company operates in university campuses, suburban neighborhoods, and city centers, making it one of the most deployed autonomous delivery platforms globally and a flagship Estonian robotics success.
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START Summit 2026
Student-run summit at Olma Messen with 7,000+ attendees, 1,000+ investors, and 1,500+ startups. Highlights include the START Summiteer pitch competition and high-volume investor-founder matchmaking.
