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EK Automation is a robotics company founded 1980, based in Germany, developing 1 robot primarily in the AGV category.
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Add a deployment →Innovative transport robots for production and warehouse logistics
The company, now branded as ek robotics and formerly EK Automation, develops automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and mobile transport robotics for production and warehouse logistics. Its systems are used for flexible transport, storage and retrieval, order picking, and assembly across industries such as automotive, food and beverage, printing and paper, hospitals, aerospace, engineering, plastics, packaging, chemicals, wood, and retail.
Active products
1
RoboIndex
51.47
RoboScore 51.47 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- HQ
- Hamburg, Germany
- Founded
- 1980 · 46 yrs
- Employees
- 201
- Website
- www.ek-automation.com
- View profile ↗
RoboScore
51.47 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
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Milestones
NEURA Robotics announced the acquisition of ek robotics, adding more than 300 employees and expanding its mobile robotics portfolio.
The company changed its name from EK Automation to ek robotics.
Press coverage
- NEURA Robotics acquires ek robotics
NEURA Robotics · Oct 2025
- ek robotics celebrates 60 years AGV
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- Interview with E&K Automation GmbH
FineEng
- Innovative Transport Robots | NEURA Mobile Robots GmbH
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Public loss record
Consumer product alerts from this country reach the EU Safety Gate, which we read. Industrial, workplace and medical incidents never enter it, so a blank record says nothing about those.
Active products by EK Automation
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EK Automation AGV | AGV | Payload 2500 kg·Top speed 3.3 m/s | 1963 | 59.0 |
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