It started in 1903 with a $1,000 bet on a better motor controller. A century later, Rockwell Automation runs the machinery behind cars, medicine and microchips - and is quietly wiring the factory floor into the cloud.
Fulfil (Fulfil Solutions) is a Mountain View robotics company building a fully automated grocery pick-and-pack system. Its ShopBot robots handle every grocery category and temperature state - produce, refrigerated, frozen - with item-level tracking powered by AI, computer vision and sensor fusion. The goal is to make online grocery, a famously unprofitable business, actually pencil out for retailers while cutting food waste. Fulfil emerged from stealth in February 2023 with $60M in Series B funding and powers Save Mart's Lucky Now same-day delivery service.
Pantec Group is a family-owned engineering company based in Ruggell, Liechtenstein, that has grown from a two-person mechatronics shop founded in 1990 into a group of specialized business units spanning industrial automation, motion control, metrology controllers, print-decoration systems and medical laser technology. Its control systems run high-precision machines in printing, textile, semiconductor and coordinate-measuring applications worldwide, while its medical arm, Pantec Biosolutions, develops the P.L.E.A.S.E. laser microporation platform for needle-free, painless drug delivery.