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</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">Robotics Design Inc.</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Private</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Robot" title="Robot">Robots</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1997</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Charles Khairallah</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, <a href="Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">Canada</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Mobile_robot" title="Mobile robot">Mobile robots</a><br><a href="Industrial_robot" title="Industrial robot">Industrial robots</a><br> <a href="Self-reconfiguring_modular_robot" title="Self-reconfiguring modular robot">Modular robots</a><br> Hyper-redundant robots Ergonomic arms</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.roboticsdesign.qc.ca/">www.roboticsdesign.qc.ca</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Robotics Design Inc.</b> is a company that designs and builds modular robots, founded and incorporated in <a href="Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, <a href="Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>, Canada, in 1997.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>
<p>The company developed the <a href="PBSC_Urban_Solutions" class="mw-redirect" title="PBSC Urban Solutions">BIXI</a> bike dock, a public bike system, and the Automatic Deployable Container, a deployable structure container for quick deployment of housing, hospitals and other buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-Climatisations_et_locaux_confinées_:_de_l'air_pour_nos_intérieurs_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Climatisations_et_locaux_confinées_:_de_l'air_pour_nos_intérieurs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ANATROLLER ARI-100 is an industrial robot used primarily for duct cleaning.<sup id="cite_ref-Constuire_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Constuire-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Plumbing_and_HVAC_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plumbing_and_HVAC-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2010, the company's<sup id="cite_ref-Canadian_Industrial_Machinery_Magazine_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Canadian_Industrial_Machinery_Magazine-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ANAT technology was recognized as a nominee for the 2010 <a href="Manning_Innovation_Awards" title="Manning Innovation Awards">Manning Innovation Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Design_Engineering_Magazine_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Design_Engineering_Magazine-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The company's first portable Anatergoarm model, the TMA-500, was deployed in 2010 at <a href="Hydro_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydro Quebec">Hydro Quebec</a>'s <a href="Robert-Bourassa_generating_station" title="Robert-Bourassa generating station">Robert-Bourassa generating station</a> for breaking unit repairs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Anatergoarm AEA-15 a manual arm designed in collaboration with Michel Dallaire Design Industrielle,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> won the gold medal at the 31st international Geneva Exhibition in 2015<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a finalist in IDM.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="BIXI">BIXI</h3></div>
<p><a href="BIXI_Montr%C3%A9al" class="mw-redirect" title="BIXI Montréal">BIXI Montréal</a>, utilizing Robotics Design Inc.’s modular docking station, was named the 19th best invention of 2008 by <i><a href="Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time magazine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Outline_of_robotics" title="Outline of robotics">Outline</a></li>
<li><a href="Glossary_of_robotics" title="Glossary of robotics">Glossary</a></li>
<li><a href="Index_of_robotics_articles" title="Index of robotics articles">Index</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_robots" title="History of robots">History</a></li>
<li><a href="Geography_of_robotics" title="Geography of robotics">Geography</a></li>
<li><a href="Robot_Hall_of_Fame" title="Robot Hall of Fame">Hall of Fame</a></li>
<li><a href="Robot_ethics" title="Robot ethics">Ethics</a></li>
<li><a href="Laws_of_robotics" title="Laws of robotics">Laws</a></li>
<li><a href="Robot_competition" title="Robot competition">Competitions</a></li>
<li><a href="Competitions_and_prizes_in_artificial_intelligence" title="Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence">AI competitions</a></li></ul>
</div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Robot" title="Robot">Types</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Aerobot" title="Aerobot">Aerobot</a></li>
<li><a href="Anthropomorphic" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropomorphic">Anthropomorphic</a>
<ul><li><a href="Humanoid_robot" title="Humanoid robot">Humanoid</a></li>
<li><a href="Android_(robot)" title="Android (robot)">Android</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyborg" title="Cyborg">Cyborg</a></li>
<li><a href="Gynoid" title="Gynoid">Gynoid</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Claytronics" class="mw-redirect" title="Claytronics">Claytronics</a></li>
<li><a href="Companion_robot" title="Companion robot">Companion</a></li>
<li><a href="Automaton" title="Automaton">Automaton</a>
<ul><li><a href="Animatronics" title="Animatronics">Animatronic</a>
<ul><li><a href="Audio-Animatronics" title="Audio-Animatronics">Audio-Animatronics</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Industrial_robot" title="Industrial robot">Industrial</a></li>
<li><a href="Articulated_robot" title="Articulated robot">Articulated</a>
<ul><li><a href="Robotic_arm" title="Robotic arm">arm</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Domestic_robot" title="Domestic robot">Domestic</a></li>
<li><a href="Educational_robotics" title="Educational robotics">Educational</a></li>
<li><a href="Entertainment_robot" title="Entertainment robot">Entertainment</a></li>
<li><a href="Juggling_robot" title="Juggling robot">Juggling</a></li>
<li><a href="Military_robot" title="Military robot">Military</a></li>
<li><a href="Medical_robot" title="Medical robot">Medical</a></li>
<li><a href="Service_robot" title="Service robot">Service</a></li>
<li><a href="Disability_robot" class="mw-redirect" title="Disability robot">Disability</a></li>
<li><a href="Agricultural_robot" title="Agricultural robot">Agricultural</a></li>
<li><a href="Automated_restaurant" title="Automated restaurant">Food service</a></li>
<li><a href="Automated_retail" title="Automated retail">Retail</a></li>
<li><a href="BEAM_robotics" title="BEAM robotics">BEAM robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Soft_robotics" title="Soft robotics">Soft robotics</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Biorobotics" title="Biorobotics">Biorobotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Cloud_robotics" title="Cloud robotics">Cloud robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Continuum_robot" title="Continuum robot">Continuum robot</a></li>
<li><a href="Unmanned_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Unmanned vehicle">Unmanned vehicle</a>
<ul><li><a href="Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">aerial</a></li>
<li><a href="Unmanned_ground_vehicle" title="Unmanned ground vehicle">ground</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_robot" title="Mobile robot">Mobile robot</a></li>
<li><a href="Microbotics" title="Microbotics">Microbotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Nanorobotics" title="Nanorobotics">Nanorobotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Necrobotics" title="Necrobotics">Necrobotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Robotic_spacecraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic spacecraft">Robotic spacecraft</a>
<ul><li><a href="Space_probe" class="mw-redirect" title="Space probe">Space probe</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Swarm_robotics" title="Swarm robotics">Swarm</a></li>
<li><a href="Telerobotics" title="Telerobotics">Telerobotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Autonomous_underwater_vehicle" title="Autonomous underwater vehicle">Underwater</a>
<ul><li><a href="Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle" title="Remotely operated underwater vehicle">remotely-operated</a></li>
<li><a href="Robotic_fish" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic fish">Robotic fish</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Robot_locomotion" title="Robot locomotion">Locomotion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Continuous_track" title="Continuous track">Tracks</a></li>
<li><a href="Legged_robot" title="Legged robot">Walking</a>
<ul><li><a href="Hexapod_(robotics)" title="Hexapod (robotics)">Hexapod</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Climber_(BEAM)" class="mw-redirect" title="Climber (BEAM)">Climbing</a></li>
<li><a href="Electric_unicycle" title="Electric unicycle">Electric unicycle</a></li>
<li><a href="Robotic_fin" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic fin">Robotic fins</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Robotic_navigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic navigation">Navigation</a> and <a href="Robotic_mapping" title="Robotic mapping">mapping</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Motion_planning" title="Motion planning">Motion planning</a></li>
<li><a href="Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping" title="Simultaneous localization and mapping">Simultaneous localization and mapping</a></li>
<li><a href="Visual_odometry" title="Visual odometry">Visual odometry</a></li>
<li><a href="Vision-guided_robot_systems" title="Vision-guided robot systems">Vision-guided robot systems</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Research</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Evolutionary_robotics" title="Evolutionary robotics">Evolutionary</a></li>
<li><a href="Robot_kit" title="Robot kit">Kits</a></li>
<li><a href="Robotics_simulator" title="Robotics simulator">Simulator</a></li>
<li><a href="Robotics_suite" title="Robotics suite">Suite</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-source_robotics" title="Open-source robotics">Open-source</a></li>
<li><a href="Robot_software" title="Robot software">Software</a></li>
<li><a href="Adaptable_robotics" title="Adaptable robotics">Adaptable</a></li>
<li><a href="Developmental_robotics" title="Developmental robotics">Developmental</a></li>
<li><a href="Human%E2%80%93robot_interaction" title="Human–robot interaction">Human–robot interaction</a></li>
<li><a href="Robotic_paradigm" title="Robotic paradigm">Paradigms</a></li>
<li><a href="Perceptual_robotics" title="Perceptual robotics">Perceptual</a></li>
<li><a href="Situated_robotics" title="Situated robotics">Situated</a></li>
<li><a href="Ubiquitous_robot" title="Ubiquitous robot">Ubiquitous</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_robotics_companies" title="List of robotics companies">Companies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="ABB" title="ABB">ABB</a></li>
<li><a href="Amazon_Robotics" title="Amazon Robotics">Amazon Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Anybots" title="Anybots">Anybots</a></li>
<li><a href="Barrett_Technology" title="Barrett Technology">Barrett Technology</a></li>
<li><a href="Boston_Dynamics" title="Boston Dynamics">Boston Dynamics</a></li>
<li><a href="Doosan_Robotics" title="Doosan Robotics">Doosan Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Energid_Technologies" title="Energid Technologies">Energid Technologies</a></li>
<li><a href="FarmWise" title="FarmWise">FarmWise</a></li>
<li><a href="FANUC" title="FANUC">FANUC</a></li>
<li><a href="Figure_AI" title="Figure AI">Figure AI</a></li>
<li><a href="Foster-Miller" title="Foster-Miller">Foster-Miller</a></li>
<li><a href="Harvest_Automation" title="Harvest Automation">Harvest Automation</a></li>
<li><a href="HD_Hyundai_Robotics" title="HD Hyundai Robotics">HD Hyundai Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Honeybee_Robotics" title="Honeybee Robotics">Honeybee Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Intuitive_Surgical" title="Intuitive Surgical">Intuitive Surgical</a></li>
<li><a href="IRobot" title="IRobot">IRobot</a></li>
<li><a href="KUKA" title="KUKA">KUKA</a></li>
<li><a href="Rainbow_Robotics" title="Rainbow Robotics">Rainbow Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Starship_Technologies" title="Starship Technologies">Starship Technologies</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbotic" title="Symbotic">Symbotic</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_Robotics" title="Universal Robotics">Universal Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Wolf_Robotics" title="Wolf Robotics">Wolf Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Yaskawa_Electric_Corporation" title="Yaskawa Electric Corporation">Yaskawa</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Workplace_robotics_safety" title="Workplace robotics safety">Workplace robotics safety</a>
<ul><li><a href="Robotic_tech_vest" title="Robotic tech vest">Robotic tech vest</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Technological_unemployment" title="Technological unemployment">Technological unemployment</a></li>
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