The jury at LogiMAT 2026 offered the celebrated LogiMAT BEST PRODUCT award to a trio of revolutionary, future-oriented new merchandise that promise higher effectivity, automation, and optimization in intralogistical processes.
The winners of this yr’s LogiMAT BEST PRODUCT award provide options that ship effectivity and visibility. The impartial jury of researchers and journalists reviewed greater than 116 submissions to pick three groundbreaking improvements in robotics, automation, and optimization whose state-of-the-art applied sciences clearly exhibit the sophistication and viability that outline at this time’s sensible options for environment friendly intralogistics. The award was offered to firm representatives of the profitable merchandise within the LogiMAT Area, situated within the East Entrance Atrium, in the course of the commerce present’s gala opening-day ceremony, moderated by Dr. Johannes Fottner, Professor and Chair of the Institute for Supplies Dealing with, Materials Circulation, Logistics on the Technical College of Munich.
Within the class of “Software program, Communications, IT,” the prize went to the EPG AURA Observer for AI-driven real-time evaluation of video feeds, developed by the Ehrhardt Associate Group (Corridor 4, Sales space 4A71).
With the EPG AURA Observer, the Ehrhardt Associate Group (EPG) has created an AI-based setting for the cross-system evaluation and optimization of logistics operations. The EPG AURA Observer is a specialised product inside this setting pioneering AI-powered, real-time clever video analytics (IVA) to ship higher security, visibility, and decentralized warehouse administration.
Video feeds within the warehouse seize actions, interactions, workflows, and conditions which will impression security. To date, video feeds have been used to doc incidents and analyze them retroactively if obligatory, however technical constraints prevented their use for the continual, automated help of ongoing operations. There wasn’t any scalable methodology for deciphering video streams in actual time, precisely figuring out related conditions, and changing this info into actionable operational indicators. The EPG AURA Observer, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, fills this hole. By combining camera-based video evaluation with semantic understanding enabled by AI-powered vision-language fashions, it makes use of video information for the primary time as a full-fledged operational information supply. The picture information is interpreted in actual time, and no footage is saved. The EPG AURA Observer detects motion and assesses what that motion means within the given context, distinguishing between regular operations and important deviations. You’ve got the pliability to outline which occasions you wish to monitor and might use the digital assistant to customise the profile to your particular wants. The evaluation is event-driven, and private information is at all times anonymized. Solely precise occasions and standing info are saved; the underlying visible materials shouldn’t be saved. This ensures that the EPG AURA Observer complies with related information privateness laws.
Within the class of “Order Choosing, Conveying, Lifting, and Storing Expertise,” the jury honored SkyBot, the world’s first cell, omnidirectional ceiling-mounted cobot, developed by CeiliX Expertise (East Entrance, Sales space EO91A).
With SkyBot, the jury acknowledged the world’s first cell, omnidirectional ceiling-mounted cobot. The patented know-how permits the collision-free motion of robots, cobots, and cranes alongside ceilings – independently of room geometry, ground structure, or columns. SkyBot is the primary resolution to make the most of the warehouse ceiling as a productive work space. It permits automation in confined areas, retains the ground clear, and affords flexibility for contemporary manufacturing and logistics processes.
The cobot strikes alongside the ceiling, simply managing meeting, dealing with, and transport duties. The system is predicated on the CeiliXElements modular ceiling rail community, which is mounted to the warehouse ceiling and permits the robotic to maneuver freely in a number of dimensions. Which means that the SkyBot operates fully independently of visitors routes, floor-mounted tools, and house constraints with out the necessity for expensive reconfigurations. The innovation may even combine multi-story constructions or a number of halls right into a single steady ceiling structure, enabling automation in areas the place bodily or financial constraints had beforehand made it inconceivable. The system can be scalable. A number of SkyBots could be deployed concurrently, passing one another and performing totally different duties on the similar time. This permits the system to adapt to various workloads, accommodate fluctuations, and help incremental automation.
Within the class of “Identification, Cargo Securement, and Packaging and Loading Expertise,” the award went to the revolutionary ADAR sensor (Acoustic Detection and Ranging) developed by Norwegian sensor know-how firm Sonair (Corridor 8, Sales space 8B01).
The patented Acoustic Detection and Ranging (ADAR) know-how boosts the sensor capacities of autonomous equipment. ADAR know-how makes use of ultra-compact 3D ultrasonic sensors to present autonomous robots full omnidirectional depth notion, enabling protected human-robot collaboration within the office. The innovation lies within the mixture of wavelength-matched ultrasonic transducers, software-based beamforming know-how, and object recognition algorithms that emit and detect sound waves to simply seize 3D spatial info. ADAR makes use of sound waves within the air to detect individuals and objects in three dimensions. The power consumption and processing energy required are minimal, making ADAR a less expensive various to broadly used LiDAR know-how. With a full 180° × 180° 3D subject of view, ADAR helps cell robots detect obstacles and other people in any respect heights. ADAR affords a compact single-sensor resolution that permits financial savings of as much as 50% on sensor and security prices in comparison with complicated sensor stacks similar to LiDAR and cameras. Extraordinarily low energy consumption and a solid-state design prolong battery life. The ADAR sensor from Sonair permits a wiser, safer, less expensive deployment of robots in human environments, each on the machine and system ranges. Consequently, ADAR know-how boosts robotic productiveness and reduces the prices, complexity, and upkeep necessities of cell platforms.
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