Robotics engineer with AR glasses operates AR application on a robotic arm.

Advanced Robotics: Developing complex robotic systems

With a vast number of sensors and actuators, robotic systems are highly complex and yet must be easy and error-free to operate. Together with our team, we master the challenges of robotics and support you in all phases of product development, approval and product maintenance.

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360-degree system development: Robots built with the big picture in mind

ITK Engineering draws on more than 30 years of experience in robotics. With an interdisciplinary team of experts in control engineering, software development, systems architecture, and mechatronics, we support our customers in the standards-compliant implementation of a wide range of innovative robotics applications – from surgical systems and mobile robots for intralogistics to industrial use cases.

Interaction between the disciplines of software, electronics, and mechanics with a robot’s actuators and sensors, combined with user-centered design, functional safety, and simulation methods.

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System design

Control systems

Software & algorithms

Mechanics & electronics

Systems integration

Our heart beats for robotics

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Medical robot with forceps attachment in the OR

Medical robotics

Medical robots are among the most challenging devices, as they must meet the highest standards of precision, safety, and reliability under strict regulatory requirements.

Service robot serves food and drinks in a restaurant.

Service robotics

Service robots must reliably and closely interact with humans in dynamic, often unstructured environments. This places high demands on safety and user acceptance.

Robot arms on the assembly line in production

Industrial robotics & cobots

For industrial robots and cobots, the main challenges – alongside achieving cycle times and high precision—lie in ensuring safe human-robot collaboration and seamless integration into existing production processes.

Advanced Robotics: Pushing the limits of what is possible with robotics technology

Our roots in robotics run deep with nearly 30 years to our credit. Throughout these years, our passion for this tech never waned. Its power to improve people‘s quality of life and safety and lighten workloads remains an inspiration to us. We always strive to develop solutions that – despite their great complexity and stringent standards for safety – are easy to understand and intuitive to use.

Illustration of a mining robot
Two male engineers calculate the movements of a robot arm on a whiteboard.

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Safety first – Developing safe robots

The development of robotic systems places the highest demands on functional safety. Ensuring software safety is one of the greatest challenges in this context. Learn more about our proven practical approaches to identifying and managing software risks at an early stage.

Two male engineers stand at a mobile robot and discuss the user interface.

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Dos and don’ts in system development

Experience has taught us the importance of considering robotic systems as a unified whole. This is the most efficient path to the best and safest solution. In this webinar, we explore common pitfalls in development.

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From idea to market-ready product

Tailor-made solutions from a single source:
With many years of experience and our holistic, human-centered systems engineering approach, we ensure that your specialized robotic application is implemented efficiently, safely, and in line with market requirements.

Unsolved challenges? We look forward to your inquiry.

Dr. Tobias Luksch, R&D Robotics, ITK Engineering

Expertise – Robotics

Dr. Tobias Luksch