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`!Robotics Design Inc.`! is a company that designs and builds modular robots, founded and incorporated in `F33f`_`[Montreal`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Montreal]`_`f, `F33f`_`[Quebec`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Quebec]`_`f, Canada, in 1997.

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[Background`#background]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[History`#history]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Awards`#awards]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[BIXI`#bixi]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[References`#references]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>Background

The company developed the `F33f`_`[BIXI`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=PBSC_Urban_Solutions]`_`f 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[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-1]`_`f]

>>History

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[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-climatisations-et-locaux-confin-es-de-l-air-pour-nos-int-rieurs-2]`_`f] The ANATROLLER ARI-100 is an industrial robot used primarily for duct cleaning.`:cite-ref-constuire-3-0[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-constuire-3]`_`f]`:cite-ref-plumbing-and-hvac-4-0[`F5bf`_`[4`#cite-note-plumbing-and-hvac-4]`_`f]

In 2010, the company's`:cite-ref-canadian-industrial-machinery-magazine-5-0[`F5bf`_`[5`#cite-note-canadian-industrial-machinery-magazine-5]`_`f] ANAT technology was recognized as a nominee for the 2010 `F33f`_`[Manning Innovation Awards`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Manning_Innovation_Awards]`_`f.`:cite-ref-design-engineering-magazine-6-0[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-design-engineering-magazine-6]`_`f]

The company's first portable Anatergoarm model, the TMA-500, was deployed in 2010 at `F33f`_`[Hydro Quebec`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Hydro_Quebec]`_`f's `F33f`_`[Robert-Bourassa generating station`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Robert-Bourassa_generating_station]`_`f for breaking unit repairs.`:cite-ref-7[`F5bf`_`[7`#cite-note-7]`_`f] 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[`F5bf`_`[8`#cite-note-8]`_`f]

The Anatergoarm AEA-15 a manual arm designed in collaboration with Michel Dallaire Design Industrielle,`:cite-ref-9[`F5bf`_`[9`#cite-note-9]`_`f] won the gold medal at the 31st international Geneva Exhibition in 2015`:cite-ref-10[`F5bf`_`[10`#cite-note-10]`_`f] and a finalist in IDM.`:cite-ref-11[`F5bf`_`[11`#cite-note-11]`_`f]

>>Awards

>>>BIXI

`F33f`_`[BIXI Montréal`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=BIXI_Montréal]`_`f, utilizing Robotics Design Inc.’s modular docking station, was named the 19th best invention of 2008 by `*`F33f`_`[Time magazine`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Time_(magazine)]`_`f`*.`:cite-ref-12[`F5bf`_`[12`#cite-note-12]`_`f]

>>References

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-1]`_`f "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-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-climatisations-et-locaux-confin-es-de-l-air-pour-nos-int-rieurs-2-0]`_`f `:citerefsud-ouest2010`aSud 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-3`!3.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-constuire-3-0]`_`f "L'ANATROLLER fait le ménage". `*Construire Magazine`* (in French). www.acq.org. March–April 2007.

`:cite-note-plumbing-and-hvac-4`!4.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-plumbing-and-hvac-4-0]`_`f `:citerefplumbing-and-hvac2010`aPlumbing and HVAC, Magazine (April 2010). "Duct cleaning robots" (PDF). plumbingandhvac.ca/. Retrieved April 29, 2010.

`:cite-note-canadian-industrial-machinery-magazine-5`!5.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-canadian-industrial-machinery-magazine-5-0]`_`f `:citerefroberts2013`aRoberts, 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-6`!6.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-design-engineering-magazine-6-0]`_`f `:citerefscanlan2009`aScanlan, Steve (December 14, 2009). "Modular Robotics". Rogers Publishing. Retrieved July 9, 2025.

`:cite-note-7`!7.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-7]`_`f `:citerefmontreal2011`aMontreal, 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.`B100`F9d9{{cite news}}`f`b: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

`:cite-note-8`!8.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-8]`_`f "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-9`!9.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-9]`_`f `:citerefmontreal2009`aMontreal, Robotics Design Inc. (November 2009). "Flexible Robot Eases Mould Changes" (PDF). Rogers Publishing. Retrieved December 23, 2009.

`:cite-note-10`!10.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-10]`_`f "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-11`!11.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-11]`_`f "Prix de l'IDM 2003 Finalistes". Infodesigncanada.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2009.

`:cite-note-12`!12.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-12]`_`f "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.

>>External links

• Official website

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