Robot OS and developer platform for industrial automation
Wandelbots builds Nova, an agnostic robot operating system designed to abstract away proprietary vendor APIs from major industrial robot manufacturers (Yaskawa, ABB, Fanuc). The stack reveals a platform-as-a-service infrastructure play: Kubernetes, Azure, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines indicate a cloud-native SaaS operation, while the project mix (integration frameworks, Python SDK, VS Code extension, CLI tooling) points to a developer-first go-to-market focused on lowering the barrier to custom automation. Hiring has decelerated to a single role in the past month, concentrated in engineering, suggesting either consolidation post-growth or resource constraints.
Wandelbots is a Dresden-based deep tech startup (founded 2017) building an operating system layer for industrial robots. Nova abstracts the complexity of integrating multiple robot manufacturers into a single software interface, enabling manufacturing and logistics operations to program and orchestrate automation without learning vendor-specific languages. The company sells to enterprises and partners seeking to reduce labor costs and simplify robot deployments. With 51–200 employees and current hiring limited to Germany, the organization remains early-stage, balancing product development (SDK expansion, platform tooling) against partner enablement and proof-of-value work.
Wandelbots uses Kubernetes, Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, React, TypeScript, and support for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The stack includes monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana), virtualization (KVM, QEMU), and integrations with major robot makers: Yaskawa, ABB, and Fanuc.
Wandelbots is developing Nova, a robot operating system, alongside tooling: a Python SDK, CLI, VS Code extension, and integration frameworks to enable custom automation on multi-vendor robot platforms. Active work includes partner enablement and proof-of-value design.
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