Robotics
Market entry for robotics manufacturers: guidance on CE marking and the EU Machinery Regulation, GDPR and EU AI Act compliance, and anonymization of robot camera data.
The team spans robotics and cloud architecture, AI and data engineering, GDPR, the EU AI Act, ISO frameworks, German law, and China-to-Europe market development.
In progress
Marsstein work scope
Near-term commercialisation
The platform and the cleaning process are comparatively mature, customers understand the value quickly, and integration effort is usually lower than for mobile manipulation. Fits hotels, hospitals, malls, airports, factories, offices, and logistics parks.
Marsstein focus areas
Long-term development
Start with constrained tasks: fixed chillers or standard shelves, limited SKUs, standard bottles and cartons, fixed restocking windows. The robot identifies gaps, picks from the back room or a restocking trolley and places items; complex placement and exceptions go to remote or on-site staff. Prefer single task equipment or a wheeled manipulation platform over open-ended full store restocking.
Marsstein assessment
The entry point for the German market is the back room chiller, closed shelving or night time restocking, not full daytime assortment handling on the open sales floor.
In development
Three tasks in priority order
Path to deployment
Start with parts and tool delivery, then extend to intake capture and used part identification. The first phase constrains route, item types and handover points and keeps human takeover, to validate safety, cycle time and return on investment.
Legal data flows, AI regulation, and information security.
Machinery safety, technical conformity, and market placement.
Marsstein provides compliance project management and certification coordination. Marsstein is not a notified body and does not issue CE or ISO certificates; where third party assessment is required, Marsstein works with accredited bodies.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery applies from 20 January 2027, and until then Directive 2006/42/EC governs conformity for machinery placed on the EU market.
Product baseline
Baseline assessment
Regulation identification
Regulation & standards matrix
Risk & gap analysis
Gap report
Remediation management
Remediation list
Test coordination
Test package for laboratories
Technical documentation
Technical file
German localisation
Market entry pack (user manual, rating plate)
Installation & series production
Lifecycle control system
Manufacturer
Owns product design, remediation, prototypes, production consistency, and final declaration of conformity.
Testing laboratories
Perform measurement testing, safety verification, and validation.
Notified bodies
Involved only where regulation explicitly requires third-party assessment.
European customer
Owns site risk assessment and daily operation.
Marsstein
Owns route, documentation, certification coordination, localisation, and deployment management.
AnonymizationService
Faces and plates in camera data from vehicles and robots, masked in the EU, with evidence per file.
100+ TB processed
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Talk to usA pilot starts with a scenario qualification: evaluating product maturity, on-site conditions and regulatory mandates, followed by a constrained single-site trial.
The manufacturer remains the legal entity placing the product on the market and owns the declaration of conformity. Marsstein coordinates the CE process with you and drafts the GDPR documentation for the data the robot handles; testing and the declaration itself stay with the manufacturer.
Raw data stays on the device or in EU-based cloud instances by default. Faces and license plates are masked with Marsstein AEON before export or cross-border replication. Whether the result is anonymous is assessed per dataset against singling out, linkability and inference (WP29 Opinion 05/2014).
The customer provides physical site access, network connectivity, operational safety briefings for local staff, and the site-specific operator risk assessment.
Timing depends on scenario complexity and CE readiness. With existing CE documentation and clear interface boundaries, a pilot can start sooner. We agree the plan per project.
