ZenRobotics

Summary

About

About ZenRobotics

ZenRobotics was founded in Helsinki in 2007 and introduced one of the earliest commercial applications of AI-guided robots in waste sorting. Terex Materials Processing acquired its assets in 2022 and retained ZenRobotics as an operating brand. The current profile therefore covers the continuing Terex-owned product business rather than presenting the former independent company as a separate owner.

The portfolio includes Heavy Picker for bulky construction and demolition waste, Fast Picker for lighter conveyor streams, and the ZenBrAIn and ZenVision intelligence layers used to identify and select materials. Installations operate in more than 15 countries and can be trained for hundreds of waste categories. The systems are sold as industrial recycling automation, combining perception, robotic picking and facility integration to raise recovery rates and reduce manual sorting exposure.

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Products

Deployments

  • Customer site

    2022-12-19 - Grundon trialled a ZenRobotics Fast Picker at its Bishop’s Cleeve site for plastics sorting, with plans to train further recyclable fractions. - one named customer trial - Bishop’s Cleeve site

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Supply

Supply chain relationships

  • igus

    Inbound - Bearings - igus supplied i3 prototype bearings, then print2mold J2 bearings for ZenRobotics FastPicker

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Timeline

Events

  • 2024-02-12 - Product Launch - ZenRobotics launches Fast Picker 4.0 waste-sorting robot

    The upgraded recognition system can identify more than 500 waste categories and is designed to improve purity, accuracy and recovery. Adjustable widths and a gantry spanning the conveyor allow the system to fit different picking stations and reach the full belt width. The 4.0 configuration can work after Heavy Pickers or in side streams, reject-recovery lines and quality-control stations, handling pieces up to 1 kg.

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  • 2022-08-11 - Acquisition - Terex acquires ZenRobotics assets and retains operating brand

    The transaction brought ZenRobotics' AI-guided Heavy Picker and Fast Picker systems into Terex's environmental-equipment portfolio. ZenRobotics continued under its established name and reports into Terex Materials Processing's environmental businesses. The first-party Terex release confirms completion on 11 August 2022 rather than a proposed transaction.

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Relations

Relationships

  • Terex Materials Processing

    Brand Owner - Terex Materials Processing acquired the assets of ZenRobotics Ltd. and retained ZenRobotics as a Terex operating brand.

Context

Comparable profiles

  • AMP

    stack adjacency - Recycling Robot Oem

  • Tuurny

    stack adjacency - Recycling Robot Oem

Shared workflows

Context tags

  • Recycling material sortation - Workflow - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.
  • AI waste recognition - Workflow - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.
  • Recycling robot OEM - Stack Layer - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.
  • Recycling facilities - Customer Environment - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.