Gantry, end-effectors and sensor-to-actuator control for the processes automation hasn't reached yet. Epic builds the body; the digital twin keeps the brain.
Illustration · gantry automation cell concept
Illustration · commissioning cell conceptMechanical and control engineers build the gantry and end-effector; IT and data engineers run the edge, network and storage; cybersecurity engineers hold the loop closed and the process trusted — then hand clean, timestamped ground truth back to the research that asked for it.
The simulation defines the algorithm. Epic builds and runs the hardware that executes it, and returns clean, timestamped ground truth upstream. Precise action down, honest data up.
Algorithms, vision ML, predicted state. Partner-owned.
→Sensors, actuators, closed loop at the cell. Epic.
→Gantry, end-effector, handling. Epic.
→Live state measured, quality preserved.
Epic Robotics operates in the Munich–Nuremberg deep-tech corridor — one of the strongest robotics and AI ecosystems in Europe. Epic draws on this corridor's talent, hardware, and research base to build automation that is precise, credible, and grounded in real science.
TUM's Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) — force-controlled manipulators, the same class of arms Epic uses for delicate handling. TUM Weihenstephan brings crop and plant-science depth where robotics and biology meet.
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg — a national leader in machine learning and computer vision, alongside Siemens and Fraunhofer IIS. Dense, applied layer of automation expertise north of Munich.
Technische Universität Nürnberg — a purpose-built institution for AI and robotics, adding a research-native generation of talent to the corridor.
Applied mechatronics and automation engineering — the hands-on engineering school feeding skilled integrators into the corridor.
Soft and adaptive end-effectors for irregular, fragile and lab-scale components — vials, wafers, tissues, assemblies — without process-specific tooling for every new part.
Compliance control · part registration · damage-free handling across mixed geometries
High-repeatability gantries and stages that service dense, stacked geometry and reach into constrained cells with collision-free paths.
±10 µm repeatability · tray/cell registration · collision-free servicing
Angled camera arrays, structured light and force sensing that close the loop on part presence, pose and quality at the cell.
Pose estimation · inline metrology · illumination stability and calibration
Mounting and driving sensors and actuators, running low-latency closed loops at the cell and streaming clean, timestamped state upstream.
Edge acquisition · actuation latency · data-pipeline integrity
Registration, tool change and servicing that turn a gantry and an arm into a working cell on the floor or the bench.
Cell integration · tool change · repeatability over long runs
Signal-triggered orchestration: the system decides when to act from live process state, not a fixed clock.
State-triggered policy · predicted-vs-observed validation
The cell converges to target cycle time within the first run and holds it. Measured per cycle against the model — the loop validates itself before sustained autonomous operation.
Inline optical measurement tracks nominal dimension within engineering tolerance across the part set — no re-baselining between runs, no drift in the loop.
Epic's automation is driven by live process measurement: inline metrology, force and vision sensing, and state-triggered control at the cell. The process sets the control target; the robot meets it.
The first Maya cell is running unattended cycles in Munich — a gantry, a vision module, and a tight edge controller keeping the experiment loop closed end to end.
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Illustration · AI systems beyond roboticsEPIC Technologies develops AI-based systems for the automated collection, processing and analysis of complex technical and commercial information. In addition to intelligent robotics and machine-vision applications, the company is developing software solutions that transform heterogeneous data and documents into structured, decision-relevant information.
Software initiatives extending EPIC Technologies' AI capability into adjacent commercial workflows.
EPIC TenderAI is an AI-supported B2B software solution currently in development for analysing tender, market and business-partner information. The system is intended to identify relevant opportunities, structure requirements and deadlines, and support companies in internal bid/no-bid and market-entry decisions.
Ghana is being evaluated as the first international target market. The planned solution will complement existing procurement platforms and will not replace official tender portals or automatically submit bids.
Epic Robotics · Munich, Germany · engineering@epicrobotics.de
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