German Robot Manufacturers

Germany is Europe's largest robot market and its automotive industry has been a major buyer of industrial robots for decades. KUKA, founded in Augsburg in 1898 and owned by China's Midea Group since 2017, is the best-known German robot brand, with its orange arms common in car body shops worldwide.

A newer generation of Munich- and Stuttgart-area companies focuses on sensitive, force-controlled arms and cognitive robotics: Franka Robotics' research arms, Agile Robots' cobots and NEURA Robotics' cobots and humanoids. Warehouse picking specialist Magazino, owned by Jungheinrich, is also based in Munich.

The companies below are headquartered in Germany. Each profile lists product lines, founding year and ownership, with links to our robot reference pages where available.

By robot type

• Cobots: 4
• Autonomous mobile robots: 3
• Industrial robots: 1
• Humanoids: 1

German Robot Manufacturers

• Agile Robots — founded 2018 · private — Munich-based spin-off of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) building force-controlled robot arms and AI-driven automation systems.
• Franka Robotics — founded 2016 · owned by Agile Robots — Munich maker of torque-sensing seven-axis arms, founded as Franka Emika.
• KUKA — founded 1898 · owned by Midea Group — German automation company whose orange robot arms are a fixture of automotive body shops.
• Magazino — founded 2014 · owned by Jungheinrich — Munich maker of perception-driven mobile picking robots that grab individual shoe boxes and cartons from shelves.
• NEURA Robotics — founded 2019 · private — German company building 'cognitive' robots with integrated sensing — the MAiRA and LARA cobots, the MAV mobile platform and the 4NE1 humanoid.

Related countries

• US Robot Manufacturers — 28 companies
• Chinese Robot Manufacturers — 31 companies
• Japanese Robot Manufacturers — 11 companies