Robotics Design Inc.
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Robots |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Charles Khairallah |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Products | Mobile robots Industrial robots Modular robots Hyper-redundant robots Ergonomic arms |
| Website | www.roboticsdesign.qc.ca |
Robotics Design Inc. is a company that designs and builds modular robots, founded and incorporated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1997.
Background
[edit | edit source]The company developed the BIXI bike dock, a public bike system, and the Automatic Deployable Container, a deployable structure container for quick deployment of housing, hospitals and other buildings.[1]
History
[edit | edit source]The company launched its first ANATROLLER robot in 2003, the ANATROLLER ARI-100. Later, in 2010 the Kel'air duct cleaning company, a French company based in Bordeaux, acquired one of these, the first in the European market.[2] The ANATROLLER ARI-100 is an industrial robot used primarily for duct cleaning.[3][4]
In 2010, the company's[5] ANAT technology was recognized as a nominee for the 2010 Manning Innovation Awards.[6]
The company's first portable Anatergoarm model, the TMA-500, was deployed in 2010 at Hydro Quebec's Robert-Bourassa generating station for breaking unit repairs.[7] It won the IRSST's 2011 "Work health and safety innovation" award at the 21st edition of the innovation awards organized by ADRIQ and its partners.[8]
The Anatergoarm AEA-15 a manual arm designed in collaboration with Michel Dallaire Design Industrielle,[9] won the gold medal at the 31st international Geneva Exhibition in 2015[10] and a finalist in IDM.[11]
Awards
[edit | edit source]BIXI
[edit | edit source]BIXI Montréal, utilizing Robotics Design Inc.’s modular docking station, was named the 19th best invention of 2008 by Time magazine.[12]
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External links
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