Fabmatics

Fabmatics develops cleanroom robots and factory-automation systems for semiconductor manufacturing. Its portfolio combines autonomous mobile robots, handling equipment, storage, identification, localisation and material-flow software.

Facts

  • Segment: Industrial Robotics
  • Country: DE
  • Founded: 1991
  • Website: https://www.fabmatics.com/

About

About Fabmatics

Fabmatics was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany. The company develops hardware and software for material transport, handling, storage, identification and localisation in semiconductor fabs and other high-technology production environments. It employs around 300 people across Germany and the United States and has been part of SCIO Automation Group since 2023.

Its robotics portfolio includes cleanroom-compatible autonomous mobile robots, wafer and reticle handling systems, robotic cells and fleet or factory-integration software. Fabmatics can modernise existing 200 mm fabs as well as design material-flow automation for new facilities. That makes it a system builder rather than a generic customer of robotics. Deployment counts, order values and customer-specific throughput improvements are not consistently disclosed, so Korthos separates the verified product scope from unsupported commercial-scale assumptions.

Supply

  • Balluff - Inbound - Perception - Fabmatics uses Balluff BCS00WY sensor heads and amplifiers in wafer-handling robot end effectors - source: balluff.com

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Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

  • Brooks Automation - comparable profile - peer: Semiconductor Robotics Automation
  • Robots and Design - comparable profile - peer: Semiconductor Robotics Automation
  • Factory automation systems - Capability - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.

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Timeline

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Team

  • Roland Giesen - Managing Director - Since January 2019, he has led Fabmatics engineering, production preparation and manufacturing, customer service, quality management and purchasing.
  • Andreas Purath - Managing Director - Since August 2020, he has led Fabmatics strategy and innovation, controlling, sales and business development, marketing and communications, administration and project management.

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Relations

  • Infineon Technologies - Cleanroom Trial Partner - Fabmatics and Infineon Dresden jointly evaluated the HERO Scout prototype in a 200 mm lithography cleanroom through the AIMS 5.0 programme.
  • BRUX Japan - Exclusive Distributor - BRUX Japan has been Fabmatics’ exclusive distributor in Japan since June 2025, after serving as its service partner since September 2023.
  • SCIO Automation Group - Parent Company - Fabmatics has been part of SCIO Automation since the transaction closed on 27 December 2023.

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Deployments

  • Named Customer Trial - Infineon Dresden cleanroom trial - 2026-07-30 - Infineon Technologies Dresden - semiconductor cleanroom - A HERO Scout prototype completed transport, handling and navigation trials under real production conditions in Infineon Dresden’s 200 mm lithography… - source: fabmatics.com

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Operations

  • Units Manufactured And Commissioned - 100 robots - 2024-04-08 - Fabmatics reported that 100 HERO Fab robots had been manufactured, commissioned and dispatched to semiconductor fabs worldwide. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: fabmatics.com

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