Hitachi
To be announced soon.
Husqvarna Group
To be announced soon.
Nira Dynamics
NIRA transforms raw vehicle sensor data into actionable insights for roads, vehicles, and driving environments. Our core customers today are major OEMs and road authorities, with products deeply integrated into vehicles and infrastructure.
Now, we’re seeking startup collaborations to expand our impact—especially in apps and services for drivers, cyclists, delivery personnel, and shared mobility users. Our goal: bring road intelligence and vehicle insights directly to end users, fleet managers, and mobility providers.
We seek:
- Smart Routing Using Real-Time Road Surface Insights
- We want to explore partnerships with startups that build or enhance routing engines using road surface data — such as friction, roughness, or gradient. This could include:
- Safer or smoother routing for ADAS or autonomous driving
- Energy-efficient routing for EVs
- Truck/trailer-safe routing based on road quality or load dynamics
- Matching vehicle settings or driving modes to road conditions
- Personalized alerts or warnings based on historical driver behavior
- Insights for ride-hailing or car-sharing companies based on usage patterns and road exposure
Saab (first challenge)
“Intelligent orchestration across domains”
Autonomy & Coordination: Saab is continuously exploring how platforms across different domains can interact more intelligently. Emphasis lies on enabling collaborative behaviour, adaptive planning, and dynamic task allocation between autonomous agents, but also between those agents and man-controlled platforms and systems. The collaboration is enabled through shared situational awareness, robust decision-making, and distributed mission execution.
We seek:
Key areas include secure information exchange, interoperability frameworks, and real-time data fusion that allows assets to act both independently and as part of a larger system.
Saab (second challenge)
System-of-system integration: Coordinating multiple systems (both autonomous and man-controlled) in complex environments requires seamless integration of software, hardware, and communication protocols. This may involve decentralised control architectures, human-in-the-loop interfaces, or modular solutions that allow for flexible deployment.
We seek:
Saab is interested in technologies that support resilient, scalable, and efficient coordination between platforms, sensors, and mission systems—regardless of domain.
Innovation in production methods: In order to radically increase production capacity while lowering cost, new production methods such as additive manufacturing and continuous quality assurance are key factors.
SICK
SICK is delivering sensor intelligence innovations in six strategic markets. The solutions are industry grade solutions within outdoor automation, machines and materials, logistics, automotive, consumer goods and electronics. The user perspective is always a challenge, and many different approaches have been tested in this area. We believe in technology to protect people, to free people from tedious tasks, and to preserve our planet.
We seek:
The solution variance is large for SICK’s playground. One part is, of course, to help our customers to solve the different problems in their environment, but also it’s to make our solutions sales-friendly. How can we make a complex sensor something that is fun and easy to sell? In many cases, we want to be able to switch to AI-based sensor data analysis to support decision-making even in an embedded, real-time, critical environment. Also, the solutions need to be robust. On the inside, we are also thinking about how to quality assure our solutions in a time-efficient way and find good regression testing techniques, as well as handling cybersecurity.
Toyota Material Handling Europe
We are looking for ideas that can help us reimagine the forklift experience — making it more intuitive, accessible, and adaptable for a diverse and dynamic workforce.
In today’s logistics landscape, labor shortages and high turnover are pressing challenges. Many forklift operators are new to the job, while others are highly experienced.
With a smart solution we could help drivers to become more efficient in handling the truck safely, including start-up sequence, driving, managing loads, and charging. “We want to make onboarding intuitive and efficient, so the full potential of the truck can be unlocked.”
We seek:
Ideas, technologies, and solutions that can help us:
- Simplify forklift operation for users with varying levels of experience.
- Improve onboarding and training through intuitive interfaces, smart guidance, or immersive learning.
- Enhance safety and productivity with real-time feedback or adaptive controls.
- Support rental customers with plug-and-play usability and minimal setup.
Address labor dynamics by making forklifts more attractive and easier to adopt for new workers.
Väderstad
To enable autonomous agriculture, it’s essential to employ intelligent technologies that can not only identify and predict component failures but also optimize farming operations and assess the condition of soil and crops.
We seek:
Solutions that could help anticipate these challenges through predictive maintenance and data-driven diagnostics. Machine learning models will be placed to sift through data to detect potential issues, while model-based diagnostics will be used to identify any irregularities in machinery behavior.
