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HowToRobot.com ApS, a supplier of a worldwide automation market platform, and Acquire & Co., a robotics and automation advisor, introduced a merger final week. The newly fashioned firm has additionally acquired an funding from Sagitta Ventures, which can be taking a seat on its board.
Now working below the identify “HowToRobot,” the mixed firm stated that whereas the necessity for robotics is stronger than ever, most companies nonetheless wrestle to automate. By combining its automation market and vendor-independent recommendation, HowToRobot stated it is going to help companies with each side of their automation journeys.
“Companies want automation and robotics like by no means earlier than to make up for labor shortages and provide chain disruptions and easily to guard them in the long term,” said Søren Peters, now co-CEO of HowToRobot. “However with out assist, solely few are in a position to totally benefit from the know-how. The merger and funding permit us to increase that assist to each enterprise that wants it.”
Based in 2017, HowToRobot stated it affords corporations with an outline and easy accessibility to automation and robotics suppliers globally. It additionally affords advisors that give steering on every thing from getting began with automation to know-how choice and implementation.
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International robotic installations have greater than tripled over the previous decade, in line with the Worldwide Federation of Robotics (IFR). This demand has resulted in additional innovation, making it tough for potential prospects to maintain up with the business, stated Peters.
“Robotics is creating so quick that it may well simply appear overwhelming,” he stated. “What most want is usually simply somebody to speak to who is aware of the market and who they’ll belief for dependable and neutral recommendation. By letting our two corporations be part of forces, we are able to now present all that in a single place.”
The Copenhagen, Denmark-based firm claimed that the brand new HowToRobot gives the help that companies want when seeking to automate. On the R-24 occasion earlier this yr in Odense, Denmark, Gulshan Akhtar Din, a senior advisor then at Acquire & Co., defined the way it labored with hospitals to correctly combine automation with each bodily infrastructure and enterprise processes.
Regardless of world robotic installations hitting a document excessive in 2022, in line with the IFR, HowToRobot stated it has discovered that the typical enterprise has explored solely about 5% of its addressable potential for automation. Peters asserted that that is primarily as a result of restricted experience and data about automation.
“Most companies have nonetheless solely scratched the floor of what’s potential and is sensible to automate,” he stated. “With the fitting steering and easy accessibility to potential options, robotic adoption can attain an entire new stage.”
Contained in the merger
With the merger, Peters, the previous CEO of HowToRobot, and Søren Pap-Tolstrup, the previous CEO of Acquire & Co., will function co-CEOs. The corporate didn’t disclose monetary particulars of the merger or funding from Sagitta Ventures.
“The world of robotics remains to be new to many, and most need assistance to some extent – from technical recommendation to discovering options and constructing the enterprise case or just discovering the very best place to begin,” famous Pap-Tolstrup. “When mixed, our platform and advisory have the depth, attain, and adaptability to help companies the place and once they most want it.”
HowToRobot stated its newest funding will allow it to broaden its platform, advisor staff, and accomplice community internationally, including experience and the capability for conducting on-site automation screening. The corporate stated it additionally plans to broaden its market understanding of robotics and automation to higher present knowledgeable recommendation.