BEUMER group and Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML have begun a three-year joint ‘Enterprise Lab’ for the development of scalable platform for mobile robots (MR).

The partnership will serve as the technological basis for various mobile robotic applications, from sortation robots for parcel centres to smart baggage transporters for airports.

Taking place in Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund, BEUMER gains direct access to the latest research results and lab facilities, and Fraunhofer to develop products to market maturity.

“Instead of setting up an isolated island laboratory, we are using the Fraunhofer ‘Enterprise Lab’ as a tried and tested format for incorporating external cutting-edge research directly into our product development. Thus, we are enabled to significantly accelerate our mobile robotics projects and offer our customers innovative solutions even faster,” explained Volker Jungbluth, Chief Technology Officer of BEUMER Group.