Hotly contested robotics

Robo­tics has been making its way into our lives for some years now and is chan­ging indus­trial produc­tion and logi­stics in parti­cu­lar. The largest market for robots is curr­ently China with its decli­ning popu­la­tion. Robots can also help to compen­sate for the shortage of skil­led workers in Germany. Franka Emika was conside­red the hottest start-up on the scene after it was foun­ded in 2016 and ended up in insol­vency at the end of August 23 follo­wing heated dispu­tes between the two main foun­ders, the Hadda­din brot­hers, with their co-share­hol­­ders and the Free State of Bava­ria. The bidders were queu­ing up: the Munich-based tech­no­logy company Agile Robots AG finally won the race.