# Robotnik Automation

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Privately held. Valencia since 2002.<br><strong>Employees:</strong> ~50<br><strong>Key products:</strong> Mobile robots (RB-1, RB-KAIROS+, SUMMIT-XL); mobile manipulators for research and industry; open-source ROS development platform<br><strong>Key markets:</strong> Research universities, industrial logistics, defence, agriculture<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Spanish mobile-robotics specialist with strong ROS development heritage.</p>

Robotnik is a Spanish mobile-robotics specialist with a particularly strong ROS (Robot Operating System) development heritage. Its platforms are widely used across European research labs as standard mobile-manipulator development bases.

Alongside that research footprint, Robotnik is seeing growing industrial deployment in logistics, defence and agriculture.

https://robotnik.eu