Voraus Robotik provides a unified software platform that orchestrates industrial automation in real-time by merging automation engineering with modern software development practices. The platform includes voraus.core for containerized control and voraus.pioneer for high-level simulation and development, enabling hardware-agnostic application creation. This integration reduces integration and maintenance costs for machine builders and industrial firms while streamlining OT/IT processes.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Industrial automation often suffers from vendor lock-in, making it difficult and costly for companies to integrate different robots, sensors, and AI systems. This lack of interoperability hinders the efficient customization and optimization of production processes.
Solution
Voraus Robotik offers a vendor-neutral middleware platform that facilitates the seamless integration of robots, sensors, and AI-driven software. Their solution empowers manufacturers, integrators, and end-users to create and execute automation solutions tailored to their specific needs. The platform's open interfaces and microservice architecture reduce vendor dependency, allowing for flexible integration of new technologies and optimization of production efficiency. By providing a user-friendly graphical interface and a Python API, Voraus Robotik simplifies the development and deployment of automation applications, enabling companies to achieve autonomous automation.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes manufacturers, system integrators, and end-users in the industrial automation sector seeking to reduce vendor lock-in and improve the efficiency and flexibility of their automation processes.
Features
- Vendor-neutral middleware for orchestrating complete automation cells
- Supports various robot types, from cobots to industrial robots, and seamless integration of peripherals
- User-friendly graphical interface (voraus.operator) for no-code programming and parametrization
- Python API for programming complex automation tasks and avoiding vendor lock-in
- Development platform (voraus.pioneer) for streamlined software development with versioning and repo management
- One-click deployment with test pipeline and compatibility check
- EtherCAT master app for real-time communication to control external components
- Multi-robot app for orchestrating up to five robots per core
- Palletizing app with predefined functions and an intuitive user interface
- Maker app for drag’n’drop graphical programming on the shop floor