RoboValley is a centre for robotics, headquartered in
Delft
Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...
,
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. RoboValley is powered by the Robotics Institute of
Delft University of Technology
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...
. RoboValley aims to facilitate collaboration between researchers, governments and enterprises. Currently, RoboValley is looking to attract robotics companies and researchers in the field of robotics in order to facilitate this collaboration. Among others, TU Delft's
Robotics Student Association is located in the centre.
The idea of RoboValley came from professor Martijn Wisse's vision of creating a
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley ...
for robotics, which is how the name RoboValley came to be. Martijn Wisse soon presented his idea to Arie van den Ende, an entrepreneur and business developer.
Over the course of 2015, RoboValley continued its development, starting with the creation of the
Robo Service Centre, a virtual office for start-up robotics companies and a shared service centre for all robotics activities in RoboValley. In September 2015, a delegation of RoboValley travelled to RoboBusiness in
San Jose, California
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to officially present RoboValley to a worldwide audience.
On 31 May 2016, RoboValley and
Chrysalix Venture Capital announced the launch of the RoboValley Investment Fund,
raising 100 million Euro. The RoboValley Fund is intended to identify, invest in and commercialize new robotics technologies..
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2015 establishments in the Netherlands
Robotics in the Netherlands