Wandelbots

Wandelbots is a German industrial software company founded in 2017 in Dresden by a team of robotics researchers from TU Dresden. It was created to remove the need for manual, code-heavy programming of industrial robots, a barrier that keeps many small and mid-sized manufacturers from adopting automation.

Its core product, the NOVA platform, pairs NOVA OS for robot control with NOVA Cloud for fleet and workflow management. Engineers record and validate a task in a digital twin, then push the same workflow to robots from different brands across multiple factory sites, while the platform keeps refining the process using live production data. Customers span automotive and industrial manufacturers such as Volkswagen and Schaeffler.

1. NOVA OS: Runtime that controls industrial robots from multiple hardware vendors through one interface.

2. NOVA Cloud: Central console to manage robot fleets, deployments and workflow versions across sites.

3. Digital twin simulation: Build and validate a robot task virtually before running it on the shop floor.

4. Cross-brand deployment: Same workflow logic runs on robots from different manufacturers.

5. Continuous optimization: Live production data feeds back into the platform to refine running workflows.

6. Multi-site rollout: Validated automation logic can be pushed to several factories at once.