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STIHL acquires 24% of TinyMobileRobots

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STIHL acquires 24% of TinyMobileRobots


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TinyMobileRobot paints lines on a grassy field.

A TinyMobileRobot paints strains onto an athletic subject. | Credit score: TinyMobileRobots

German industrial group STIHL has made a big funding into Danish robotics firm TinyMobileRobots. STIHL’s robotic garden mowers share a powerful technical kinship with the absolutely autonomous line-marking robots produced by TinyMobileRobots, that are supposed to be used in sports activities fields, street building, agriculture and extra.

TinyMobileRobots is increasing quickly into worldwide markets, from its homebase in Denmark. The corporate is worthwhile and has doubled in measurement every of the previous couple years, it stated.

The STIHL Group has been carefully following TinyMobileRobots’ fast development and is taking this chance to accumulate 23.8% of TinyMobileRobots, shopping for out the corporate’s former state-funded funding, managed by enterprise capital agency Borean Innovation.

Non-public investor Anders Fauerskov, former co-owner of TC Group, will proceed to personal a part of the corporate and stays a big capital accomplice inside the new circle of homeowners. There was no extra money infusion into TinyMobileRobots by STIHL, however the brand new relationship brings different benefits.

“We now have been in search of a powerful accomplice able to securing additional development and improvement – and partnering with STIHL is an absolute dream situation,” stated Jens Peder Kristensen, founder and CEO of TinyMobileRobots. “Collectively, we share a pool of data, expertise and expertise, which is able to create nice worth for each corporations. Proper from the outset, we may even profit tremendously from STIHL’s worldwide community of sellers. Whereas sustaining our standing as an impartial firm, we will draw on STIHL’s large market expertise to speed up our development additional. To place it mildly, I’m very, very proud of this new improvement.”

In simply 5 years, TinyMobileRobots has discovered a powerful marketplace for its line marking robots, each in sports activities subject marking, in addition to civil engineering purposes in street building.

“We now have been in dialogue with STIHL for a few years. Lastly, there was a chance to let STIHL purchase a portion of the corporate. This makes it doable for us to coordinate quite a lot of actions in each improvement and within the markets, and which means that our expectation about rising 100% a yr now could be far more stable,” stated Kristensen. “STIHL is well-known available in the market, and they’re referred to as a top quality product – we’re a startup, we constantly enhancing our high quality. We will be taught so much from STIHL, and truly STIHL may also be taught so much from us. STIHL has developed the standard idea to the acute, which (additionally) signifies that they’ve an extended improvement time. They have been impressed by how fast we will transfer to the market, and the way fast we will adapt our applied sciences.”

STIHL continues to increase into the U.S. market and the partnership presents nice potential and synergy for the 2 corporations working collectively. TinyMobileRobots’ line marking robots meet a excessive buyer demand for extra sustainable merchandise since they’re powered by batteries as an alternative of gasoline, and use considerably decrease quantities of line paint in comparison with competing options.

“We now have been in shut contact with TinyMobileRobots for greater than two years and steadily, we have now grow to be increasingly impressed with their development charges and efficiency. As the possibility to accumulate almost 1 / 4 of the corporate arose, we have been fast to strike a deal. We really feel satisfied that our future collective efforts will result in an excellent higher share of TinyMobileRobots’ quick rising and innovation pushed market,” stated Benjamin Junghans, Director of STIHL Digital.

TinyMobileRobots additionally developed a PropTech-robot for measuring massive indoor areas resembling high-rise building websites, storage buildings, warehouses and manufacturing amenities, the place tens of millions of sq. toes in any other case should be measured manually. Through the use of TinyMobileRobots, these time-consuming duties will be optimized considerably.