ROICO

Funding News! 💸 We are thrilled to share that we have received an Innobooster from Innovation Fund Denmark. This is great news right at the start of the summer! With this support, we will enhance our solution, boosting our sustainability impact, productivity, and ease-of-use.  The end goal of course to empower painters! Throughout the summer we will be working hard both at the office and on construction sites. It's the perfect time for tackling more painting projects, and we are ready for it! ☀

There are simply not enough workers. One of the key reasons we started was to address the rapidly increasing labour shortage. Not enough people are entering the trade, and a large part of today's workforce is going into retirement In this article, we share more about the labour shortage challenges and a path towards the future of painting 🖌 https://lnkd.in/di9w-u9J

Mange af os har prøvet det, når vi beslutter os for, at stuen skal have en tur med penslen og malerrullen. Det er hårdt for kroppen. Det har startuppen ROICO besluttet sig for at gøre noget ved. Founderne Antonis Karageorgiou, Tijmen Spiertz og Oskar (Askarbek) Pazylbekov har udviklet et nyt malerværktøj, inspireret af robotteknologi, hvor formålet er at øge produktiviteten, reducere den fysiske belastning og imødekomme den voksende mangel på arbejdskraft. 🎨 ROICO har deltaget i Innovationsfondens Innofounder-forløb, hvor startuppen har fået finansieret løn i 12 måneder og modtaget sparring og læring. Hør de tre founders sætte ord på deres produkt samt, hvordan det har været for dem at deltage i Innofouner-forløbet. 👇

We are looking for interns to join us from September! 🚀 Are you interested in working at a construction technology company in the Robotics Capital of the world? We are looking for aspiring engineers and business professionals 👀 Then take a closer look at our open positions to learn more: Apply through The Hub: https://lnkd.in/dKXPHCwM Our Career Page: https://lnkd.in/dG4i-nhC

Last week we were at the DTU Startup Day! 🚀 Thank you to everyone that came by our stand and pitch to hear about ROICO's mission to empower painters. It was great to have a chat with so many exciting people. 🏗 Special thanks to DTU - Technical University of Denmark, DTU Science Park Startups, our fellow GreenUp Startups, and all those involved with organizing this day. We are energized to move forward with our mission 💪 #DTUStartupDay #ConTech #PropTech #ConstructionPainting #ConstructionInnovation

👷♂️ Painting is a hard job. Especially when you realize that most painters in construction do much more than painting alone. Masking, sanding, and plastering are some common tasks that the average painter also does. The key reason for what makes the job hard is the high physical work demand. This has, especially in the long-term, a significant impact on workers’ health. 📚 The Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment conducted a study among 69,117 workers across industries. The goal was to investigate the relation between age, physical work demands, and long-term sickness absence. Job groups which were highly physically demanding were likelier to experience long-term sickness absence, particularly as age increased. Construction workers generally have physically demanding jobs as bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters, and woodworkers were among the most affected trades. Yet it was painters that came out on top. 🕰️ One of the key recommendations in this study was to consider someone’s age for any physically demanding tasks. Yet within the painting industry this is challenging. In 2022, the Painter Insight Monitor highlighted that only 7% of painters are under 35 years old and 25% were over 58. In other words, the most physically demanding jobs are done by people who are ideally less exposed to it. However, the recommendation to use assistive devices could make a difference. 🛠️  At ROICO we believe that an assistive solution should take some of the repetitive grunt work that is physically demanding. This would be good for the health and retaining the expertise and skills of a professional painter. Our collaborative robot tackles physically straining tasks, so the professional painter can focus on the tasks where their expertise counts the most. 💪 Follow us on our mission to empower painters 💪

We are excited to announce support from Realdania! As a part of Innovation to Market, we will continue our relentless focus on empowering painting in construction. With our solution, we will reduce the emissions of the painting process, increase productivity, and address the pressing trends facing the trade. In particular, the rapidly increasing labour shortage.

Last week we had a blast at R-24! 🚀 We were overwhelmed by the interest during these 3 exciting days. A special thanks to everyone that came by for the interesting conversations and contacts. A great moment to show our solution to empower construction painting. We had some great talks about the importance of collaborative robotic solutions on the construction site. Solutions that are made for people. And a special thanks to Odense Robotics for hosting us!

Meet ROICO at R-24! From the 13th to the 15th of March you can find us at R-24 in Odense where we will share the latest about our collaborative painting solution. Interested to learn more? Find us in Hall C at the Odense Robotics stand (Stand 3002). Sign up here: https://roboticsevent.eu/

We're excited to be among this year's Start-Up of the Year nominees! 🏆 A great start for what will be an exciting 2024.