Zurich – Sevensense Robotics is now 100 percent part of ABB. Sevensense’s autonomous mobile robots, with their proprietary 3D image processing, are designed to complement ABB’s offerings to create a working environment in the automotive and logistics industries by supporting people.
ABB strengthens its position with the Zurich-based company Sevensense Robotics, founded in 2018. The energy and automation group had already invested an undisclosed amount in the spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in November 2021 as part of an "innovation partnership". This now complete acquisition underlines ABB's "strategic investment focus on innovative AI solutions that are transforming industries such as logistics and manufacturing," according to a recent ABB press release.
Last year, the Group announced that it was equipping its autonomous mobile robots (AMR) with Visual SLAM technology from Sevensense. The company combines this 3D vision navigation technology with artificial intelligence. Using cameras mounted on the AMR, 3D maps of all objects in the vicinity are continuously created in real time and shared immediately with the entire fleet.
The technology can distinguish between fixed and moving objects such as people. This allows the robot to adapt dynamically to environments in which people work, for example in the automotive and logistics sectors. According to ABB, this "revolutionary technology" has the potential to change robotics far beyond AMR. It will continue to be marketed in various segments such as material handling, building cleaning and other areas of service robotics under the product name Sevensense.
According to Sevensense CEO Gregory Hitz, this is a significant moment because "we can now introduce our self-developed technology in numerous markets and sectors". He describes ABB as "the ideal home to further scale our diverse platform for 3D vision autonomy". ce/mm