ZenRobotics

ZenRobotics builds AI-powered waste-sorting robots for recycling facilities. The Terex brand combines heavy and fast robotic pickers with vision software that identifies recoverable material across construction, demolition and mixed waste.

Facts

  • Segment: Industrial Robotics
  • Country: Finland
  • Founded: 2007
  • Website: https://www.terex.com/zenrobotics/

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.

Products

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Supply

  • igus - Inbound - Bearings - ZenRobotics FastPicker uses custom-geometry 3D-printed igus iglide i3 and J2 plain bearings - source: igus.com

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Market context

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

  • Tuurny - stack adjacency - stack: Recycling Robot Oem
  • Urban Machine - workflow adjacency - workflow: Recycling Material Sortation
  • Recycling material sortation - Workflow - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.

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Timeline

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Relations

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

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Deployments

  • Named Customer Trial - Fast Picker trial at Grundon Bishop’s Cleeve - 2022-12-19 - Grundon - retrofitted plastics-sorting line - Grundon trialled a ZenRobotics Fast Picker at its Bishop’s Cleeve site for plastics sorting, with plans to train further recyclable fractions. - source… - source: terex.com

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