Adapta Robotics matured over years, first in academia and academic robotics contests, then under RinfTech as the robotics department. While being the same determined and invested people that started working on competition robots almost 10 years ago, naturally, we reached a point where we were driven towards new challenges and experiences. So, we decided to launch Adapta. Building on our background, we aim to find new approaches and perspectives to complex problems, while keeping the same passion and enthusiasm.Adapta Robotics is founded on the motivation to design, develop and build all robotic products from scratch, offering the undebatable advantage of adapting and improving them whenever necessary, to seamlessly integrate into a team or process. Our goal being to deliver high quality products and services, we think, plan and prototype, iterate, analyze, and improve, always aspiring to be better and do better.We always keep an open communication, hearing your needs, feedback and opinion, offering our advice and support, all being essential to the process of adapting our robotic products to your problem and automation requirements. We offer exactly what you need, not burdening you with complexities that impress but are counterproductive.Learning, developing and building the base that stands at what was going to be Adapta’s principles, mission, vision and values: we learnt that there must be no compromise when it comes to the components inside a robot, that innovation is the path to take when you find yourself limited by what is around you or by tools and frameworks that you work on/with. Only through practice you can aim to achieve perfection; improvement and learning needs to be continuous, no matter your level of experience or expertise. For this reason, we engaged in various R&D projects focusing on mobile robots.Adapta Robotics was starting to take shape. The robotics team won the biggest robotics competition in Europe at that time, Robochallenge Vienna. At the same time, to start developing MATT, we wrote a request for EU Funding.2016 was the year when we focused on the development of both MATT and our university contest robots. The improvements brought to the contest robots resulted in winning more competitions all around the world. Continuously wanting to perform, we started designing prototypes for self- driving cars, experience that brought us new work perspectives and expertise. Still, our biggest accomplishment of the year was creating the first MATT prototype.Rinftech’s robotics department and the first MATT prototype.MATT prototype: MATT was the first project we started developing. Through an EU grant, we made MATT into a ready for market product, allowing us to explore potential markets, identify needs of diverse industries and propose solutions for testing problems across those industries.To give MATT the capabilities it has today, we constantly and consistently worked on improving it. We enhanced its software suit by adding a user-friendly graphical user interface and new computer vision methods that allowed MATT to perform on new use-case grounds.This was the year when MATT made its appearance in an international conference at the Embedded World. Soon to follow was MATT’s CE Certification. We realized all our efforts were paid when MATT’s first customer came from the US, and shortly after, followed by another one from the EU.Adapta Robotics: we are not going to hide it, we struggled a lot to find a name that accurately depicts our values and competencies. But eventually it all made sense: we are Adapta because we can shift easily from challenge to challenge, because it is in our core to find solutions to engineering problems (and not only) and because we strive to improve/ perfect ourselves, be consistent in our path and grow organically.MATT Adapt: as MATT started covering more and more industries it became obvious that the delta design of the Standard and Extended models was not sufficient for certain use-cases. With this in mind, MATT Adapt came to life by integrating the already existent MATT software suit with a six degree of freedom robotic arm.