Smart Robotics: Enabling machines to adapt in real-world environments

Developing adaptable robotics through research, prototypes, and ventures

We create the software intelligence that enables machines and robots to operate autonomously and adaptively in complex, dynamic environments.

Through collaboration in research and development projects, we focus on algorithms, control systems, and digital tools that allow hardware developed by others to perceive, learn, and respond effectively to changing conditions.

Whether those changes come from people, other machines, or the environment itself.

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Challenges in robotics

Robots often struggle outside controlled settings. Hardware may be capable, but without adaptive software, machines can’t cope with changing environments or tasks.

Pre‑programming every possible scenario is impractical. They must learn, interact safely with people and other systems, and respond to unpredictable situations in real time in real-world environments.

These challenges are often rooted in interaction. Not only between robots and humans, but also between robots and other systems, and within complex, unpredictable surroundings.

Another hurdle is making them smarter step‑by‑step by testing, improving, and scaling without high costs or long downtime.

Our vision for Smart Robotics

We envision robotic systems that adapt seamlessly to complex and changing conditions.

In our R&D projects, we focus on developing intelligent software, from adaptive control systems to perception and decision‑making algorithms, that allows machines to:

Achieving this requires advanced software architectures and specialized expertise, which we explore with partners in research and development projects.

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By embedding adaptability and context‑awareness at their core, we aim for machines that operate as truly smart machines

Technology to advance robotics

Our R&D projects develop software technologies that:

These innovations make automation more versatile, efficient, and practical for real‑world applications.

Smart Robotics ventures

Our ventures show how collaborative subsidized R&D can lead to solutions that accelerate robotics adoption and make automation more accessible.

Venture: Dobots

Dobots helps companies program industrial robots faster and more easily through advanced simulation and digital twin technology.

Almende’s R&D played a key role in developing software that allows robot movements to be designed and tested virtually.

This significantly reduces the time and cost of setting up and modifying robotic tasks in factories and other industrial environments.

Venture: Asimovo

Asimovo offers a RoboDevOps platform designed to speed up the development of robotics projects.

Almende’s R&D contributes to the core software that helps teams build, test, and deploy robot applications more quickly and reliably.

This enables organizations to accelerate robotics development and bring new automated solutions to market faster.

Explore Smart Robotics R&D projects

Explore our portfolio of subsidized R&D projects tackling challenges in autonomy, adaptability, and complex‑environment operation.

Interested to cooperate?

Do you have a research project or innovation project that needs custom Smart Robotics technology?

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