Baumer Group :: Perception, Positioning & Control in Robotic Systems

Baumer Group is a global leader in sensor technology and industrial automation solutions, founded in 1952 and headquartered in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. The family-owned company develops, produces, and markets high-precision sensors, encoders, vision systems, and process instrumentation used across manufacturing, logistics, robotics, and machine building worldwide. With production sites and sales offices on four continents, Baumer Group is known for its innovative “Sensor Solution Toolbox,” which combines classic sensing technologies with smart, digital solutions such as IO-Link connectivity and intuitive configuration software.

The company’s robot-based products and solutions focus on enabling reliable perception, positioning, and control in robotic systems rather than manufacturing complete robots. Key offerings include Verisens vision sensors specifically designed for Universal Robots collaborative robots, supporting applications like pick-and-place, quality inspection, and object detection. Baumer Group also supplies high-performance industrial cameras for machine vision, absolute and incremental rotary encoders for precise joint and motor positioning in robot arms, laser distance sensors and time-of-flight sensors for navigation and obstacle detection in AGVs and mobile robots, and smart profile sensors for edge and contour measurement in automated handling tasks. Additional solutions encompass heavy-duty encoders, functional safety encoders, and multicode readers that integrate directly into robotic cells for palletizing, sorting, and packaging lines.

Baumer Group emphasizes easy integration, robustness, and long-term reliability, helping customers increase uptime and flexibility in automated production environments.