Built in Brainport since 2015

Smart Robotics started because robot cells were programmed project by project, which made them expensive and rigid. The answer was one software platform that adapts to the product, so people can do the work they are valued for.

Smart Robotics engineer holding a palletizer gripper

From campus start-up to Series A

  1. Founded in Eindhoven

    Mark Menting and Heico Sandee start Smart Robotics in a small office at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven.

  2. Today

    Head office in Best

    Smart Robotics now works from Best, in the middle of the Brainport high-tech region, with a partner network across Europe and beyond.

  3. 130+ systems

    Over 1 billion picks

    Palletizing, depalletizing and item picking cells run in more than 15 countries across food, pharma, coffee, co-packing and e-commerce.

  4. €10M Series A

    Led by Rotterdamse Havendraken with Innovation Industries and the Dutch family office Ernij Next, to expand across Europe and develop the AI control layer further.

Leadership

Portrait of Heico Sandee

Heico Sandee

Co-CEO and co-founder

Felix Schmidt

Co-CEO

Smart Palletizer column holding a branded carton

Mission and vision

Mission. To create a workplace where people do what they are valued for, through collaboration with smarter robots.

Vision. A world where smart robots seamlessly automate pick and place tasks in logistics.

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