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At automatica it was hard to miss the presence of the Danish robotics industry. Especially the robotics cluster of Odense was prominently represented, both in a pavilion and in the startup arena. During the event Odense robotics signed a partnership with Pittsburgh Robotics Network, a key hub in the US. And after an intensive pitch process and questioning from an expert panel, Aim Robotics emerged as the winners of the 2023 Odense Investor Summit. In this report Marco van der Hoeven from Rocking Robots discusses this with Søren Elmer Kristensen, CEO Odense Robotics and Martyna Waliszewska, Investment Manager at Invest in Odense.

This year’s Odense Investor Summit held at automatica, the world’s leading smart automation and robotics exhibition in Munich, showcased the potential future of the robotics industry with nine strong cases vying for recognition. After an intensive pitch process and questioning from an expert panel, Aim Robotics emerged as the winners of the 2023 Odense Investor Summit.

For the first time ever, as a part of Odense Investor Summit, a panel of experts will listen to the stream of pitches, ask critical questions, and ultimately choose the winner of this year’s Odense Investor Summit. This will happen at the world’s leading smart automation and robotics exhibition automatica, held in Munich, Germany at the end of June. The investor summit takes place at the Startup Arena hosted by FundingBox. On the day, you can expect to see the future of the robotics industry with strong cases that should be on the radar of anyone with an interest in the industry, specifically investors.

In just five years, robotic start-ups based in Odense, Denmark – the robot capital of Europe – have attracted more than 976 million USD. This year, the local Danish entrepreneurs will be joined by companies from the RobotUnion Super Stars; finalists from the pan-European robot acceleration program.