Blue Ocean Robotics, which calls itself a "robot venture factory," says it develops and commercializes mobile robots to improve productivity, work environments, sustainability, and customer service. The Odense, Denmark-based company has subsidiaries for each robotics brand, serving the healthcare, hospitality, construction, and agriculture industries.
Jan Nielsen, CIO of AP Møller Holding, said: "Blue Ocean Robotics has developed several robotic solutions that automate and simplify critical and routine tasks, including in healthcare systems. We look forward to following and supporting the company on an interesting and prosperous journey. ."
In a world of growing labor shortages and an aging population, demand for service robots that can help companies and institutions is growing. That's why Blue Ocean Robotics, Europe's largest manufacturer of service robots, has now strengthened its financial strength, enabling the company to roll out its sustainable mobile robotics solutions globally.
UVD disinfection robots are part of the global fleet
Blue Ocean Robotics said it plans to use its latest funding to accelerate its product development and global growth. The company's product portfolio includes GoBe telepresence robots, PTR robots for safe patient transfer and rehabilitation, and UVD robots for disinfection. Its clients include hospitals, schools, airports, hotel chains, grocery stores, shopping centers, and facility management company ISS World Services A/S.
Claus Risager, CEO of Blue Ocean, said: "AP Møller Holding provides us with the additional financial strength to consolidate and expand our market share in all robots. The expansion of UVD Robots must accelerate. A new robotics brand has done this and they are now also available in the global market. At the same time, by optimizing physical robots, we are improving quality, production costs, and the opportunity to provide all our robots with the highest quality at the customer's location, In addition, we will launch an online platform in 2022 to facilitate the entire customer experience in a cloud-based system, as selling service robots is more than just making and delivering robots. Together with our sales and service partners, we It also ensures that the robot is integrated into the customer’s workflow and that the technology creates the greatest value at the customer’s location.”
Four new robots are in development
Blue Ocean Robotics says it has developed all the technological "building blocks" for the mobile service robot, enabling it to implement new types of robots faster, cheaper, and better than the competition. It said four new types of service robots are already on the drawing board.
The company reported a 20-fold increase in its sales from 2018 to 2021. Founded nine years ago, Blue Ocean Robotics has become a major player in the Danish robotics industry, with a turnover of nearly DKK 200 million ($30.4 million) and 225 employees.
As evidence of its success, Blue Ocean claims that when organizations around the world opt for automated disinfection to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus and other infections, they opt for UVD Robots.
After the latest funding, Blue Ocean Robotics said it is now valued at 2.05 billion Danish crowns ($310 million). Technically, AP Møller Holding's investment is in the form of a convertible loan, which can be exchanged for equity. Existing investors in Blue Ocean Robotics include venture fund Nordic Eye and L'Easy owner Niels Thorborg.
AP Møller Holding supports Danish robotics cluster
Although this is the first time AP Møller Holding has chosen to invest in a robotics company, it can still be seen as a return to robotics. In the 1990s, shipowner Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller realized that automation was a necessity in shipbuilding and invested heavily in robotics in Denmark.
Over the years, A.P. Møller and the foundation Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til alone Formal have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to promote robotics research at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark.
Among the companies that have been developed are Universal Robots A/S and Mobile Industrial Robots ApS, leaders in collaborative robots.
"Without AP Møller, there would be no robotics cluster of the robotics industry in Denmark," Risager points out. AP Møller, together with the local university in Odense, acts as a driving force with generous contributions to robotics research and development, while also contributing to robotics research and development. Played a huge role as a user of the solutions developed. It has been incredibly exciting to be part of a robotics adventure in Odense since the 1980s when I was developing welding robots for the Odense Steel Shipyard and meaningful."
The Danish robotics cluster currently consists of more than 300 robotics and automation companies.
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