Robotics and Automation for Corporate Showrooms
Combining real-world products, precise motion and digital content
A robot answers questions about your company. Autonomous vehicles bring the relevant exhibits to the presentation. A real product rotates at exactly the moment the screen explains its special features.
Garamantis combines analogue and haptic elements with digital applications. To achieve this, we integrate robotics and automation into bespoke corporate showrooms, experience centres and visitor centres. Using real objects, movement and media, we create a presentation that brings your products to life and actively engages your guests.
Combining physical products and digital content
Moving exhibits, real products and digital media are seamlessly integrated. This allows visitors to your showroom to experience functions and interrelationships in a vivid and immediate way.
Actively engage visitors
Your guests choose topics, ask questions or interact with exhibits. The presentation responds with appropriate movements and content.
Tailored specifically to your business
Garamantis combines suitable robotics and automation with its own software to create a presentation solution that puts your products, target audiences and communication objectives at the centre.
Centralised control and flexible presentation
The showroom software coordinates robotics, exhibits and media. Your team can launch pre-programmed sequences and, depending on the application, intervene in the presentation at short notice.
Robotics and automation technology in the showroom
Movement that tells your company’s story
What role should a robot play? What can be explained more effectively through movement? And how can your guests influence the presentation?
These questions form the starting point for our design process. We develop applications in which the technology is tailored to your content and target audiences. A robotic arm can position a screen, a turntable can display different sides of a product, and a movable exhibit can respond to the topics chosen by your visitors.
The custom control software links these actions with digital content, lighting and audio. This makes movement an integral part of your corporate presentation.
Interactive robotics: Your visitors have a say
Interactivity is a key feature of our exhibits. Visitors choose a topic, ask a question or place an object – and the installation responds.
At the KEBA Innovation Space, autonomous transport vehicles bring exactly those exhibits to the display that match the previously selected interests. The showroom software links this selection to the physical and digital presentation.
Depending on the application, presenters may also intervene during the presentation, change topics and trigger pre-defined sequences.
From an idea to a tried-and-tested exhibit
Select, test and customise components
Garamantis combines design, software development and system integration with practical testing. Suitable components are evaluated and tested in our workshop and prototype lab. In doing so, we assess movement, interaction and how they work together with the intended media.
Our experience dates back to our early projects involving learning robots: as far back as 2020, we were working on a six-legged walking robot that used AI to learn movements and tasks. By the end of the learning phase, it was able to move autonomously within buildings, measure light levels and illuminate dark rooms using integrated LEDs.
A control system for the entire presentation experience
The showroom software coordinates exhibits, movement sequences and media. Depending on the specific application, it responds to touch inputs, sensors, voice commands or operation by the host.
Together, we determine which processes need to be prepared and where it makes sense to take spontaneous action. We also take updates, maintenance and support into account right from the technical planning stage.
Robotics and automation in completed projects
Humanoid robots as conversation partners
Humanoid robots can greet visitors, answer questions and guide them through selected company content. Garamantis tailors the robots’ speech, knowledge and behaviour to the specific task at hand.
We evaluated and customised the Unitree R1 EDU for a corporate showroom. The tried-and-tested features include German voice control, a ChatGPT integration, and responses and product recommendations based on company knowledge. Personalised welcome messages and movement sequences complement the interaction.
Robotic arms for moving displays and interactive applications
Robotic arms open up new possibilities for combining digital content with real-world movement. In the AI Solutions Room, an AI agent is made physically present in the room by a robotic arm fitted with a screen. Speech, media, light and movement all work together.
We have tested further applications involving moving monitors as prototypes. Cocktail robots have also already been put to productive use on several occasions. We determine which tasks a robotic arm will perform based on your presentation concept.
Autonomous vehicles for a versatile product display
Autonomous transport vehicles can move exhibits to a display area and alter the layout of a showroom. This makes it possible to showcase different products and themes within a single room.
Garamantis integrates the vehicles into the overarching presentation logic. The selection made via the touchscreen or by the host determines which exhibits and media are relevant to the discussion. The KEBA Innovation Spacealready demonstrates this integration in practice.
Kinetic exhibits, turntables and pneumatic effects
Targeted mechanical movements can also be an effective way of showcasing your products. Controlled turntables provide different views, moving elements draw the eye, and pneumatic effects complement digital displays.
For theWack Group’s corporate showroom, Garamantis developed a three-layer display comprising LED film, a layer of glycerine and transparent OLED touchscreens. Precisely controlled pneumatic valves generate air bubbles that interact with the lighting and digital content.
At the ESA’s ‘Memorabilia’ exhibition,visitors can move a real satellite component across the interactive glass surface on a turntable.
Floating product presentation with XPlanar
In our showroom, we use Beckhoff XPlanar to demonstrate yet another fusion of automation and presentation: magnetically levitated product carriers move physical objects across a surface.
Combined with digital content, this opens up unique opportunities to showcase products and contexts. We develop the most appropriate movements and interactions to suit your application.
This is how your bespoke solution is created
1. Clarifying objectives and application: Together, we’ll review your content, target audiences and spatial requirements. Based on this, we’ll develop a suitable interaction and presentation concept.
2. Select and test the technology:
We evaluate suitable components and test the key functions in our workshop and Prototype Lab.
3. Integrating software and exhibits:
We develop bespoke control software and coordinate movement, digital content and operation.
4. Installation and commissioning
: We assemble the components on site, test the presentation workflows and train your team. Maintenance and support are arranged to suit the installation.
Add some dynamism to your company presentation
Would you like to combine real products, robotics and digital content in your showroom? Together, we’ll develop an interactive solution tailored to your business, your visitors and your presentation objectives.
Garamantis is one of our most important collaboration partners. Their dedication, creativity, reliability, their quality and expertise are exemplary, and
Michael Mondria, Senior Director at Ars Electronica Solutions
In our new corporate headquarters, we created a corporate showroom to showcase our capabilities and innovative spirit for all our guests to experience. By
Yannick Schad, senior representative of the Wack Group's management team
Projects
Solutions Room
At the Ars Electronica Center, AI, robotics, and projection mapping come together to create an exhibition that interacts with its visitors.
KEBA Innovation Space
A showroom designed around the interests of its guests
ESA exhibition ‘Memorabilia’
From the beginnings of ESA to the future
Wack Group’s interactive corporate showroom
Consistent storytelling meets a newly developed 3-layer display
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Frequently asked questions about robotics in the showroom
What benefits does robotics offer for corporate presentations?
Robotics can showcase products from different angles, provide exhibits tailored to the conversation, and respond to visitors’ questions or input. It is particularly useful when movement helps to explain a concept or supports interaction with your content.
Does our company have to be in the robotics sector itself?
No. What matters is the role that technology plays in your presentation. Companies in other sectors can also use robots and automated exhibits to convey products, processes or corporate knowledge in a clear and engaging way.
Can robotics be combined with artificial intelligence?
Yes. For example, an AI can answer questions and select relevant content. Robotics complements the dialogue with physical movement. In the AI Solutions Room, Garamantis is already combining these elements with a spatial media presentation. The actions that may be triggered are defined for each specific application.
Can existing robots or exhibits be integrated?
Yes, integration is generally possible. During the technical planning phase, we assess the existing systems, interfaces and operating conditions. Based on this, we develop the connection to the showroom software and the digital content.
How is the operation in the vicinity of visitors taken into account?
Range of motion, accessibility, operation and the necessary safety measures are assessed for the specific installation. This determines the appropriate components and operational procedures, as well as the roles of the specialist partners involved.
Does Garamantis also provide maintenance and support?
Maintenance, remote support and the management of the components in use are planned on a project-by-project basis. In doing so, we determine which services Garamantis will provide and which manufacturers or specialist partners will be involved.