Mobile robots: Are you ready for the next level?
Beat the high score with our solutions!
A maze of racks holding many surprises, such as misplaced pallets, along with mobile robots and human colleagues carelessly crossing the path. Welcome to the daily AGV arcade game! To compete for the high score in this bustling world of logistics, you need to think ahead and react at lightning speed in order to get the job done – moving loads from start to finish – in the shortest time possible.
Unlike the 1980s classics, the mobile robots of our millennium, once programmed, have to do the donkey work of moving from level to level – sorry, from job to job – largely on their own. So count yourself lucky if your driverless transport systems are equipped with enough human-like senses: three-dimensional spatial perception, coupled with a powerful data processing core and packed with safe and reliable sensors and actuators. Such a complete package helps today’s AGVs and AMRs navigate their way through the vibrant world of intralogistics, avoiding collisions, reliably picking up goods and safely delivering them to their destination.
Are you looking for just such smart solutions to take your mobile fleet to the next level? Then you’ve come to the right place! From potent individual features to comprehensive power upgrades, we have everything you and your mobile robots need to meet the challenges ahead. Are you ready to beat your high score with our support?
We certainly are!

Perception
Implementing powerful perception solutions is the most important step in the evolution of mobile robots.

Safe motion control
Safety is paramount when mobile robots interact with their human counterparts. As the central command unit, the controller has a special role to play here.

Digitalization
More accurate information from a mobile robot’s sensors can help to identify maintenance requirements in good time and take repairs into account when scheduling fleet operations.

Localization
In order for mobile robots to perform their tasks as quickly and accurately as possible, they need to know where they are at all times.

Knapp
The Austrian company Knapp relies on the O3R platform for mobile robots from ifm for its latest AGVs. The platform helps to detect obstacles in the entire perimeter in good time and to precisely approach pallets to pick them up.

ASTI
Modern vehicles and mobile machines require very powerful control electronics to process the large number of input and output signals. The ecomatController is compact and powerful, making it ideal for use in AGVs, such as those deployed by ASTI.

TecnoFerrari
For its self-propelled forklifts, TecnoFerrari relies on the cooperation with the ifm group of companies and their safety technology. The O3D vision sensor enables the AGVs to quickly identify the pallet geometry and pick up the pallet quickly and safely.

Webinar series – Perception
Equipped with PMD technology, the O3R platform for mobile robots guarantees a robust detection of the environment. In this webinar, we will look at how this platform works.

Webinar series – Safe motion control
In this webinar, we will show you how easy it is to implement safety-related functions in the controller of your mobile robot with the help of our solutions.

Webinar series – Digitalization
The focus of this webinar will be on the benefits of digitalising mobile robots based on the use of IO-Link.

Webinar series – Localization
In this webinar, we focus on product identification and the fully digitalised exchange of product information between the IT level and mobile robots.
ifm is your partner for mobile robots
Our mobile robot solutions are based on decades of experience in automating and digitalising intralogistics processes and mobile machines. Robust, reliable products and an easy-to-integrate, seamless infrastructure ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Top quality is also part of the package.
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