We combine unique technology with a championship team.
The team that built complete cobot systems until 2022 builds voraus today. That is why we know what it takes to get modern software into a real machine.
From full-stack robotics to a pure-play software pioneer.
voraus didn't start from scratch. After years of building complete robots, hardware and software, we turned that rare, system-level expertise into something bigger.
Full-stack heritage.
We built complete cobot systems end to end, and earned deep expertise in mechanics, embedded computing, functional safety and real-time control.
Software is the lever.
The limit in industrial automation is not the hardware, it is the software locked inside it. Not just in robots, but across the whole automation landscape. So we put everything into software: one extensible, hardware-agnostic platform for automation as a whole.
Pure-play automation software.
One software platform for automation: modern development and testing where production runs, with AI alongside the real-time core, on any hardware.
The standard behind the software.
Robotics and automation are our origins; deep tech is our passion. That shows in how we work, not just in what we ship.
We master the full system.
Combining modern software with complex industrial hardware is the hardest part. That is the work we do.
Quality is engineered in, not bolted on.
One shared, hardened codebase, tested continuously, not just during commissioning.
We share what we know.
Documentation and ready-to-use examples, so your people can work without us on the line. Nothing is locked away.
Always voraus.
The name says the direction, and it applies to us first: we never stop improving. What we ship gets better release after release, and so does the way we build it.
Experienced founders. Deep-tech at heart.
Behind voraus are experienced founders and successful entrepreneurs. They have built companies, led a research institute and shipped real robots. They put deep technology to work where it is hardest to apply: on the shopfloor.
Dr.-Ing. Jens Kotlarski
Robotics PhD and serial deep-tech founder. He founded his first technology company in 2012, the cobot manufacturer Yuanda Robotics in 2017, and led its pivot into voraus in 2022. Turns seemingly impossible challenges into shippable products.
Philipp Georgi
An entrepreneur across three continents. Studied industrial engineering, business and politics in Berlin and the US; held management roles in publishing, founded and sold a Shanghai e-commerce company in 2016, then built a holding for industrial companies. Turns technology into business.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
A heavyweight of German robotics, from research and industry. Doctorate at TU Munich, research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), project lead at KUKA, then twelve years heading the Institute of Mechatronic Systems at Leibniz University Hannover, and CTO of a surgical-robotics company. At voraus he sets the long-term technology direction.
The fantastic four.
The core team that turns deep-tech into product, together since 2017.
Jan Carstensen
Architect of the voraus software stack. Computer scientist, previously VP Real-Time Systems and Head of Automated Testing at Yuanda. Answers for every layer, from the real-time core to the developer tools.
Nico Angerstein
Turns engineering into things that ship. Electrical engineer who ran hardware and production at Yuanda. At voraus he owns delivery: releases, support and the numbers behind them.
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schoob
Turns customer pain into product. Mechatronics engineer with a PhD in computer vision; former VP Safety, Computer Vision & AI at Yuanda. He decides what ships and what waits.
Dr.-Ing. Julian Öltjen
Pushes the frontier of what robots can do. Mechanical engineer with a robotics PhD; former Head of Robotics at Yuanda. Now leads research and advanced development.
You have met the team you would work with. The next step is your plan.
Want to change the world of automation?
Degree, apprenticeship or years on the job: all three work here. Show us what you have built.