This year, it took Denmark less than three months to use our share of the world’s natural resources for 2022, and last year it took the world less than seven months to hit Earth Overshoot Day.
Universal Robots, the Danish producer of collaborative robots (cobots), has reported record Q1 revenue of USD 85m, 30% up on its 2021 Q1 revenue.
The unique ecosystem of Danish robotics, centered around Odense on the island of Funen, is taking off, building on years of early successes that has caught the attention of international investors. Since 2015, the combined enterprise value of Danish robotics startups is up 3.7 times, reaching 1.1 billion euros in early 2022.
Rocking Robots recently travelled to the Danish city of Odense to visit several institutions and companies that are part of the very successful Robotics Cluster. This photo series gives an impression of the diversity of this robot-ecosystem.
10 human-friendly, strong and easily accessible mobile robots will help the employees of BILKA Odense with the physically heavy and time-consuming tasks. This is the result of a fruitful collaboration between startup Coalescent Mobile Robotics and BILKA. The collaboration marks the beginning of a new technological era for the retail industry.
In a few weeks, construction will begin on state-of-the-art joint headquarters for Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) in Odense, Denmark. The building will accommodate up to 600 employees and will be the world’s largest cobot and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) Hub. Groundbreaking will take place on 20 April with completion expected at the start of 2024.
On average the Danish robotics market grew 12% last year. But the highest growing companies, especially in the cobot-market, reported a growth between 30% and 40%. As this presents an intersting opportunity for investors, the City of Odense invited them last week for the Invest in odense Summit. The team of Rocking Robots attened, and interviewed Esben Østergaard, CEO REInvest Robotics; Joost Nijhoff, Director Invest in Odense and the Mayor of the City of Odense, Peter Rahbæk Juel.
‘We want our children to speak digital, says Odense Mayor Peter Rahbæk Juel. This week Rocking Robots reports from the robotics capital of Europe, the Danish town of Odense.
At the Odense Robotics’ Annual Conference, which took place yesterday evening, the title Robotics Company of the Year has been awarded to Capra Robotics. Startup Spin Robotics won the Robotics Startup of the Year award.
“Denmark continues to rank amongst the world’s leading robot nations, delivering a strong 12% growth last year and even higher rates in segments such as collaborative and mobile robots. Global labour shortages at end users are fuelling demand for automated solutions and extending deployment of Danish robotic and drone technologies to new sectors such as logistics, retail, construction, healthcare and energy,” says Mikkel Christoffersen, CEO, Odense Robotics.
