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Robotics Design Inc. is a company that designs and builds modular robots, founded and incorporated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1997.

• Background

• History

• Awards

• BIXI

• References

• External links

The company developed the BIXI bike dock, a public bike system, and the Automatic Deployable Container, a deployable structure container for quick deployment of housing, hospitals and other buildings.cite-ref-1[1]

The company launched its first ANATROLLER robot in 2003, the ANATROLLER ARI-100. Later, in 2010 the Kel'air duct cleaning company, a French company based in Bordeaux, acquired one of these, the first in the European market.cite-ref-climatisations-et-locaux-confin-es-de-l-air-pour-nos-int-rieurs-2-0[2] The ANATROLLER ARI-100 is an industrial robot used primarily for duct cleaning.cite-ref-constuire-3-0[3]cite-ref-plumbing-and-hvac-4-0[4]

In 2010, the company'scite-ref-canadian-industrial-machinery-magazine-5-0[5] ANAT technology was recognized as a nominee for the 2010 Manning Innovation Awards.cite-ref-design-engineering-magazine-6-0[6]

The company's first portable Anatergoarm model, the TMA-500, was deployed in 2010 at Hydro Quebec's Robert-Bourassa generating station for breaking unit repairs.cite-ref-7[7] It won the IRSST's 2011 "Work health and safety innovation" award at the 21st edition of the innovation awards organized by ADRIQ and its partners.cite-ref-8[8]

The Anatergoarm AEA-15 a manual arm designed in collaboration with Michel Dallaire Design Industrielle,cite-ref-9[9] won the gold medal at the 31st international Geneva Exhibition in 2015cite-ref-10[10] and a finalist in IDM.cite-ref-11[11]

BIXI Montréal, utilizing Robotics Design Inc.’s modular docking station, was named the 19th best invention of 2008 by Time magazine.cite-ref-12[12]

cite-note-11. ↑ "ADC » Robotics Design Inc". Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2011.

cite-note-climatisations-et-locaux-confin-es-de-l-air-pour-nos-int-rieurs-22. ↑ citerefsud-ouest2010Sud Ouest, Magazine (December 6, 2010). "Climatisations et locaux confinées : de l'air pour nos intérieurs". sudouest.fr/ (in French). sudouest.fr. Retrieved February 4, 2011.

cite-note-constuire-33. ↑ "L'ANATROLLER fait le ménage". Construire Magazine (in French). www.acq.org. March–April 2007.

cite-note-plumbing-and-hvac-44. ↑ citerefplumbing-and-hvac2010Plumbing and HVAC, Magazine (April 2010). "Duct cleaning robots" (PDF). plumbingandhvac.ca/. Retrieved April 29, 2010.

cite-note-canadian-industrial-machinery-magazine-55. ↑ citerefroberts2013Roberts, Susan (January 2013). "Robotics Design Builds Nontraditional Robots One Module at a Time Imagination Drives Design". FMA Communications, Inc. Retrieved January 17, 2013.

cite-note-design-engineering-magazine-66. ↑ citerefscanlan2009Scanlan, Steve (December 14, 2009). "Modular Robotics". Rogers Publishing. Retrieved July 9, 2025.

cite-note-77. ↑ citerefmontreal2011Montreal, Robotics Design Inc. (May 26, 2011). "Arm Allows Brake Unit Repair at Hydro-Quebec Facility". PennWell Publishing. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

cite-note-88. ↑ "The Prix Innovation SST Awarded to Robotics Design" (PDF). www.adriq.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2012.

cite-note-99. ↑ citerefmontreal2009Montreal, Robotics Design Inc. (November 2009). "Flexible Robot Eases Mould Changes" (PDF). Rogers Publishing. Retrieved December 23, 2009.

cite-note-1010. ↑ "Des designers québécois remportent des Prix à Genève" (PDF) (Press release). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2009.

cite-note-1111. ↑ "Prix de l'IDM 2003 Finalistes". Infodesigncanada.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2009.

cite-note-1212. ↑ "19. Montreal's Public Bike System – TIME's Best Inventions of 2008". TIME. October 29, 2008. Archived from the original on December 14, 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2009.

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