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Company Fact Sheet

Verified company facts for media use. Product facts are in the J1600 Fact Sheet; ready-to-use prose is in the Company Boilerplate.

At a glance

FieldInformation
Legal nameThe Mobile Robot Company ApS (abbreviated "MRC")
FoundedNovember 2024
FoundersEmil Hauch Jensen and Odin Kudahl Skovsted
HeadquartersKettevej 45, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark
First productJ1600 self-driving pallet jack, made in Denmark
Websitewww.mobilerobot.com
General emailhello@mobilerobot.com
General telephone+45 88 10 90 12
Route to marketInternational distributor, integrator, and service-partner network
Distributor footprint (June 2026)Eight countries
Main awardIFOY AWARD 2026 Industrial Truck of the Year

Leadership

NameRole
Emil Hauch JensenCo-founder and CEO
Odin Kudahl SkovstedCo-founder and CTO
Fernando Fandiño OliverSenior Vice President EMEA (since January 2026)

Full profiles are in Executive Biographies.

What the company does

The Mobile Robot Company develops mobile robot solutions for internal material handling in warehouses, factories, production environments, and logistics operations. Its mission is to redefine how robots assist people: robots remove tedious, repetitive movement so employees can focus on work requiring judgment, adaptability, and uniquely human insight. This philosophy is called human-in-the-loop automation.

The company focuses on horizontal, indoor pallet flows in goods receiving, storage, production, staging, cross-docking, and shipping. Priority segments are small and medium businesses using one to five pallet-jack operators, plus larger sites with local work cells too small or changeable for a conventional fleet project.

Business model

List prices are public, but customer inquiries are routed through partners. Partners deliver local demonstrations, trials, deployment, service, and customer relationships; the company supplies robots, parts, software, technical support, training, and leads. The J1600 is available worldwide, including in the United States, Canada, Australia, and China. See Partners.

Milestone timeline

DateMilestone
November 2024Company founded in Denmark by Emil Hauch Jensen and Odin Kudahl Skovsted
20 October 2025J1600 market launch
November 2025Joins NVIDIA Inception; named to The Robot Report's 100 Robotics Startups to Watch
2 December 2025J1600 pre-orders open
12 January 2026Fernando Fandiño Oliver becomes Senior Vice President EMEA
January 2026J1600 launches as the company's first product
29 January 2026Technical webinar series launches; J1600 announced as IFOY finalist
6 March 2026Innovation Fund Denmark support announced
15–17 April 2026Participation in TEST CAMP INTRALOGISTICS in Dortmund
16 April 2026J1600 receives the Best in Intralogistics Certificate
26 June 2026J1600 wins IFOY AWARD 2026 Industrial Truck of the Year; distributor partners in eight countries
27–29 June 2026J1600 demonstrated at the United Symbol Open House in Sassuolo, Italy

Details on each milestone are in Press Releases.

Founding background

Before founding the company, the two founders had collectively completed projects for hundreds of customers and deployed more than 10,000 robots. They concluded that robot projects were too hard, too slow, and too complex, and formed the company to make mobile robots more operator-centric, easier to use, and more flexible.

Social channels

LinkedIn · Facebook · Instagram · TikTok · YouTube

Press contact

See Media Contacts.