fruitcore robotics GmbH

fruitcore robotics GmbH, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Konstanz, Germany, develops, produces and markets industrial robots, with a production facility in Villingen-Schwenningen. The company builds its hardware, control systems and software as an integrated stack rather than assembling components from separate vendors - a boundary that matters for engineers working on motion control, kinematics or application software, since the control layer and the robot hardware are designed against each other.

The product line centers on HORST (Highly Optimised Robotic System Technology) industrial robots and the surrounding Digital Robot Platform. The design goal for the platform is performance and precision combined with intuitive operation: the company reports application configuration times of under 60 minutes without prior robotics or PLC programming knowledge, and typical ROI under six months. In the field, that translates to deployments in machine loading, pick-and-place, parts separation and camera-based quality inspection, with a stated focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.

On the software side, fruitcore robotics develops robot programming tooling aimed at users without robotics expertise, alongside horstCOSMOS, a cloud-based IoT platform for connectivity and monitoring of robot fleets. Technical domains in the organization span industrial robotics, robot control systems, robotics software, cloud-based IoT, machine vision and intuitive robot programming - so work spans the boundary between real-time control on the robot side and cloud connectivity and fleet monitoring on the IoT side.

The company was founded by five robotics enthusiasts from research backgrounds, and its stated emphasis is on technically outstanding products paired with accessibility for non-experts. It serves companies of all sizes, with a particular focus on cost-effective automation for SMEs.