# Wandelbots

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Privately held; major investors include Insight Partners, Microsoft M12, Atomico. Dresden, Germany since 2017.<br><strong>Employees:</strong> ~200<br><strong>Key products:</strong> Wandelbots NOVA — vendor-agnostic robot-programming platform (works with ABB, KUKA, Fanuc, Yaskawa, Universal Robots); the original TracePen demonstration tool<br><strong>Key markets:</strong> Industrial integrators, manufacturers, system integrators — particularly automotive and electronics<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Dresden-based startup making industrial robots dramatically easier to program.</p>

Wandelbots is a Dresden-based startup making industrial robots dramatically easier to program. Its NOVA platform abstracts away vendor-specific robot programming languages, working across ABB, KUKA, Fanuc, Yaskawa and Universal Robots.

That vendor-agnostic abstraction layer is something the industrial-robotics industry has needed for decades, and it sits at the heart of Wandelbots' pitch to integrators and manufacturers.

https://wandelbots.com