Industry: Industry Region: Germany Transaction price: US$ 1 million Transaction method: equity investment
Project introduction:
A start-up company established by a university team in Germany is committed to turning German materials science into a "plug and play" industrial automation module. The company makes "shape memory alloy and piezoelectric materials" into miniature execution/sensing modules that can be called like servo motors, so that robots can obtain millimeter-micron-level and millisecond-level precision movements without air source, gearbox and noise, thus transforming "material science" into the next generation of "plug and play" infrastructure for industrial automation.
The company provides "micro-actuator/sensor module based on smart materials (SMA, piezoelectric, electroactive polymer)+low-level control IP" for OEMs and system integrators, allowing robots to complete millimeter-micron precision movements without compressed air, motors and gearboxes. The core products include SMA micro gripper series (MicroGrip), Piezo high-speed suction cup (PiezoSuction), electroactive polymer SoftFinger (Soft Finger) and Mateligent Control Pack(MCP).
● Free of gas source and motor: weight ↓90%, energy consumption ↓70%, clean room/mobile robot friendly.
● The material is the mechanism: by using the phase transformation or electric field deformation of the material itself, there is no back gap, no wear and tear, and the theoretical life is more than 1× 10 cycles.
● Plug and play: provide ROS 2 function package, IEC 61131-3 library and Matlab/Simulink block; From unpacking to running < 1 h.
● Micron-level precision+millisecond-level response: the piezoelectric sucker 1 ms and the SMA gripper 5 ms complete the 0.1 mm stroke, which can directly replace the expensive small servo slide table.
● German material patent pool: Saar University/Flawn Hof background, master SMA film heat treatment, piezoelectric multi-layer co-firing, etc., and have obtained 12 European/American patents, and customers can obtain royalty-free OEM authorization.
● Complete model+digital twinning: MCP has built-in material fatigue and temperature rise prediction, which can update the remaining life in TwinCAT/ROS in real time and realize predictive maintenance.