Startups

Vectra Automation is a organization specialized in the automated guided vehicles (AGV) sector and automated logistics systems. The company designs and constructs customized AGVs for all types of industrial setting, also developing proprietary software (AGV-TM and AGV-SV) for traffic control, plant supervision, and integration with the customer's production systems.

HMDrive develops enabling technologies for augmented reality experiences on board vehicles.HMDrive's main product is a hardware/software system that makes it possible to use holographic glasses (transparent) as an interface and ADAS on board industrial vehicles. The same technology can also be used in sports cars and any other vehicles.HMDrive technology radically transforms the way that drivers interact with vehicles and keeps their attention focused on the external environment.

Minerva Systems provides system software that optimizes the design and simplifies implementation of applications that have predictable multi-critical parameters and are based on AI for the next generation of integrated systems.Minerva Systems is a startup and spinoff of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. It operates with a team of around a dozen people in Modena (Italy) and Munich (Germany).

MAPO (Most Advanced Process Optimisation) engineers and markets highly innovative and highly technological software products and related services, associated to the dematerialisation of paper documents. MAPO has its roots in national and European R&D projects in the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The company is therefore very willing to collaborate fully on industrial innovation projects that require the rapid development of prototypes or the engineering of existing prototypes, related to their skills.

Hipert SRL is a spin-off from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. It was initiated in 2020 by Prof. Marko Bertogna and emerged from the HiPeRT laboratory, where research groups were seeking to exploit the performance/power of parallel processing platforms in a predictable manner, and in application contexts in which temporal constraints are critical.

SmartFluidPower simulate components and systems in the world of fluid power, a discipline that deals with the generation, modulation, and transmission of power using pressurized fluids.