Körber takes stake in bootstrapped German robotics startup NAiSE

Industrialtech company Körber is acquiring a stake in NAiSE, a Germany-based software company specialising in vendor-agnostic fleet management.   Together, the two partners are combining their capabilities to enable customers worldwide to orchestrate mixed vehicle fleets across production and warehouse environments. Founded in 2017, NAiSE has been self-funded to date. Its Fleet Management Software (FMS) brings together automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from different vendors and manually operated industrial trucks on a shared control layer.  As automation grows, companies are increasingly relying on larger vehicle fleets from different vendors. Without a higher-level control layer, these fleets remain isolated stand-alone solutions, limiting efficiency, transparency and scalability. This is where NAiSE comes in: the platform connects different vehicles and systems via a standardised integration layer that can be configured efficiently with integrat