Robots that learn.
Your best painter shows a movement once. The robot repeats it the same way on every shift. Plus cleaning and service robots for halls, buildings and airports.
Robotics as a Service
The work is there.
The people are missing.
We bring robots, systems and intelligence to where hands are missing and knowledge is retiring. We finance, install and operate everything. You pay a fixed monthly fee.
More than 200 robots at more than 150 customers · Application technology for the paint industry since 2008
Application technology for the paint industry since 2008
Swiss machine building with robots and AI.
For everyday businesses.
We are an owner-led company from Altstätten in the Swiss Rhine Valley, with a team in Switzerland, Germany and Romania. We build painting systems with Lesta robots, inspection cells and special machines, bring cleaning and service robots into hospitals, schools and factory halls, and write the software for them. Our customers have no research department. They have too few people and too much manual work.
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Designed in-house
We design carousels, linear axes, 2K dosing systems and controls ourselves and pre-assemble them in Altstätten, so the installation at your site stays short.
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Robots that watch
A scanner recognizes the part and picks the program. Your painter shows new parts once. Nobody at your company has to program.
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Affordable
Service robots from CHF 1,500 a month, a painting robot in your booth from EUR 2,900 a month. On subscription or to buy.
See prices -
Honest numbers
After the walkthrough we tell you, with your own numbers, whether a robot pays off, even when the answer is no.
When we advise against it
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More than 40,000 m²
of floor cleaned by our fleet every day, as much as six soccer fields.
Source: Robonnement OS, August 2026
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4 weeks
from pre-assembly in our workshop to the painted part, without stopping production
Source: Robonnement OS, January and February 2026
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More than 4,000 businesses
supplied with application technology since 2008.
Source: Robonnement order archive, 2008 to 2026
Labor market
The baby boomers are retiring.
By 2040, about 13.3 million people in Germany's workforce will reach retirement age, almost a third of everyone working today. The jobs nobody wants to do go empty first: in the paint booth, at the end of the line, on the night shift.
What we solve every day
Common problems, and what we do about them.
Sentences we hear again and again in paint shops, factory halls, hospitals and sports halls.
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What customers say: We can’t find painters anymore.
What we do: The robot learns from the painter you have and paints alongside in every shift.
View case: BETEC Beschichtungstechnik, near Karlsruhe -
What customers say: We have a hundred variants and no programmer.
What we do: Programming by demonstration. A scanner recognizes the part and picks the program.
View case: Drive technology maker in Baden-Württemberg -
What customers say: Large floors, and nobody wants to clean at night.
What we do: The robots clean at night and on weekends; the report is ready in the morning.
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What customers say: That only pays off for large companies.
What we do: There are small versions, and we tell you beforehand whether it pays off.
View case: Job coater in Lübeck
The model
You get the result. We take care of the rest.
We buy, finance, install and operate. You pay a fixed monthly fee, with no investment. Buying remains an option.
Systems we build.
From the paint cell to the palletizing system to quality inspection: planned, built, commissioned and supported.
Robonnement Intelligence.
Your factory keeps the knowledge of its best people. People, robots and machines work as one system, and you ask your factory the way you would ask a person.
Use cases
Real problems. Real solutions.
From paint shops, factory halls, hospitals, schools and an airport. Anonymous cases name the industry and the place. We name only customers whose work with us is already public.
Passt Coating AG, Nunningen
- Before
- No powder coaters left to hire, orders piling up, the business close to shutting down.
- After
- The old line runs at full capacity again, and the plant is now our demo site in Switzerland.
4 months to full capacity
Krone Group, coating plant in Emsland
In three shifts, coaters stand under truck bodies and work overhead in the powder cloud.
Industrial paint shop in the Upper Palatinate
- Before
- Painters hard to find, booths running in shifts, no space to spare.
- After
- The robot paints in the existing booth, installed without stopping production.
4 weeks from pre-assembly in our workshop to the painted part, without stopping production
CERN, Geneva
- Before
- Large areas, at night and outside working hours, access by badge only.
- After
- Four robots clean on a night schedule, and after the summer CERN asked for more area.
Cheese producer in Oberbüren
- Before
- After every shift, one person cleaned the shipping floor at 5 degrees, between forklifts.
- After
- The robot does the evening cleaning in shipping, and the team no longer cleans the corridor.
About 1,700 m² cleaned by the robots per working day, on five out of six days.
Zurich Airport
Collecting and sorting waste where passengers are on the move, with too few cleaning staff.
18 robots 15 for waste collection, 3 service robots
Sievers Lackierungen, Oberkochen
- Before
- Hardly any applicants for painter jobs, and the know-how sat with a few experienced people.
- After
- Once a part has been painted with the robot, anyone on the team can start the program, even when someone is out.
BETEC Beschichtungstechnik, near Karlsruhe
- Before
- No qualified coaters, and an owner who said no twice.
- After
- Two robots coat, the team hangs the parts and picks the program.
6 weeks until the second robot was ordered
Schneider Electric, plant in southern Germany
- Before
- The automatic guns could not reach the undercuts, so every shift recoated them by hand.
- After
- A robot at the line coats what the automatic guns cannot reach.
Municipal sports hall in Basel
- Before
- Resin after every handball game, removed by hand at night before school sports begin.
- After
- The robot cleans at night, and the floor is done by 7:15 a.m.
About 1,900 m² cleaned by the robot per night, resin included
Window manufacturer in the Upper Palatinate
- Before
- A robotic painting line that could no longer be maintained.
- After
- On September 20, 2026 the whole line ran fully automatically for the first time, fine-tuning continues.
14 of 14 commissioning days on schedule, station by station
Rehabilitation clinic in the Zurich Oberland
- Before
- Clinic corridors every day, and open questions about fire alarms and escape routes.
- After
- We answered the questions openly, and since then the robot has cleaned on more than four days out of five.
246 of 301 days in use, with about 1,300 m² per run
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Prices
What a robot costs per month.
On subscription with installation, maintenance and spare parts, or to buy. Painting cells and special machines: priced after a site walkthrough.
- Service robots
- from CHF 1,500 a month
- Per robot, for cleaning, delivery and serving. Including setup and maintenance.
- Painting robot in your existing booth
- from EUR 2,900 a month
- Including installation, teaching, maintenance and spare parts.
Whether it pays off for you, we work out after a site walkthrough.
Book a free site walkthroughMore than 200 robots at more than 150 customers
More than 200 robots.
More than 150 customers.
5 countries.
Customers and projects (selection)
- Schneider Electric
- BORBET
- Krone Group Ordered
- CERN
- United Nations Geneva
- Zurich Airport Ordered
- Passt Coating AG
- Sievers Lackierungen
- BETEC Beschichtungstechnik
- Camouflage Automotive Supplier to Porsche
Reported by
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Forbes30 Under 30 Europe 2025
Nimrod Malinas, Robonnement: 30 Under 30 Europe 2025, Manufacturing & Industry
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Forbes Schweiz
Robotik im Abo
Read the article: Forbes Schweiz, Robotik im Abo (opens in a new window)
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BILANZ
Der Roboterverleih
Read the article: BILANZ, Der Roboterverleih (opens in a new window)
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watsonCH Media
Wie in «Zurück in die Zukunft»: Flughafen Zürich testet intelligente Abfall-Roboter
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LEADER Digital
Ostschweizer Roboter landen am Flughafen Zürich
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Computerworld
Spannung, Spektakel und Spitzenleistungen beim Digital Economy Award 2024
The next chapter
Now with intelligence.
First we captured the movement of the hands. Now the knowledge in the head. Robonnement Intelligence connects every station, every machine, every robot and every person in your factory into one system.
From Altstätten
Others research in the lab. We work in more than 150 companies.
Around the world, start-ups are raising billions to research physical AI in the lab. We built it, quietly, from Altstätten in the Rhine Valley, in real factories and buildings. Our roots go back to 1934, when K. Lips AG began supplying Swiss companies with painting and compressed-air technology.
A day at Robonnement
From our technicians’ field reports, with dates.
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Job coater in Emsland
A collision in the morning, axis 4 offset by about 4 degrees. Mechanics checked, re-referenced, programs tested with the painter. After about four hours, production is running again.
View case: Job coater in Emsland -
Paint shop in Saarland
The planned training is not needed, the team can already operate the robot. Instead, we write new programs for a large part with the painter, who has been there since 3 a.m.
View case: Paint shop in Saarland -
CERN, Geneva
After the summer, CERN asks us to extend the robots’ areas. Since then, floor after floor has been added.
View case: CERN, Geneva
Customer voices
Hear it from our customers.
«Ich danke meinen zwei Roboterkollegen, weil sie das tun, was ich von ihnen möchte, und mir so mehr Energie für das lassen, was ich gerne mache.»
Translation: “I thank my two robot colleagues, because they do what I want them to do and leave me more energy for what I like to do.”
«Wir haben einen zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel in der Reinigung mit häufig sehr fordernden Arbeitstagen.»
Translation: “We have a growing shortage of skilled cleaning staff, with often very demanding working days.”
«Ich lackiere die Teile einmal mit dem Roboter, speichere das Programm, und danach kann jeder Mitarbeiter den Roboter bedienen und die Teile lackieren, ohne Lackierkenntnisse zu benötigen.»
Translation: “I paint the parts once with the robot and save the program. After that, any employee can operate the robot and paint the parts without needing any painting skills.”
«Ich habe Nein gesagt. Dann habe ich es ausprobiert. Jetzt kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, zurückzugehen.»
Translation: “I said no. Then I tried it. Now I can’t imagine going back.”
On site
Real photos from our projects, with place and month.
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Pre-assembling the painting robot on its base frame For an industrial paint shop in the Upper Palatinate, -
Painting robot with rotary carousel in front of the booth Plastics paint shop for medical technology, Black Forest-Baar, -
Three cleaning robots at their charging docks Retail distribution center in the canton of Lucerne, -
Workshop with workbench and tool wall Robonnement in Altstätten,
Contact
Tell us where things are stuck.
How we start
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Free site walkthrough
We look at your parts, booth, line or floors. You get an honest answer on whether a robot pays off for you, and if it does, a first concept.
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Reference visit at a customer near you
See a robot at work and ask the people who run it every day.
More than 200 robots at more than 150 customers · Application technology for the paint industry since 2008
- Phone +41 71 755 49 14
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