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About SICK

SICK AG is one of the world’s largest industrial sensor companies, and a foundational supplier to robotics: its laser scanners are the reference technology for mobile-robot navigation and safety, fitted to AGVs and AMRs across the industry, and its safety light curtains, safety laser scanners (such as microScan3) and safe encoder systems define how machines work alongside people. The portfolio of more than 40,000 products spans photoelectric, inductive, capacitive and magnetic sensors, 2D and 3D LiDAR (TiM, LMS and multi-layer scanners), vision sensors and cameras, barcode and RFID identification (CLV scanners and Lector readers), encoders, and gas and flow analysers for process automation — organised as factory automation, logistics automation and process automation.

Founded in 1946 in post-war Germany and headquartered in Waldkirch near Freiburg, SICK remains privately held, with ownership resting with the founder’s family and the SICK foundation rather than the stock market. The group employs around 12,000 people worldwide and reports annual sales of roughly €2.1 billion (2024), reinvesting a double-digit share of turnover in R&D. For robotics partners, SICK supplies the sensing layer — perception, identification and certified safety — on which fleets and automated production lines are built.

Products & services

• 2D and 3D LiDAR sensors (TiM, LMS and multi-layer scanners) for AGV/AMR navigation, localisation and object detection
• Safety systems for robots and machines: safety laser scanners (microScan3), safety light curtains, safety switches and safe drive monitoring
• Vision sensors and cameras, barcode and RFID identification (CLV, Lector) for logistics and traceability
• Photoelectric, inductive, capacitive and magnetic sensors; encoders; gas analysers and flow measuring devices for process automation

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