Automate 2025: CeiliX debuts InfinityCrane and Mobile Ceiling-Cobot

During Automate 2025 in Detroit, Germany-based CeiliX made two different North American debuts of its ceiling-mounted systems for logistics and manufacturing.

Ceilix showcased its InfinityCrane and new Mobile Ceiling-Cobot technologies at Automate. The company said the combined offerings created a unified overhead platform that moves material handling and robotic tasks from the floor to the ceiling.

Automate 2025 was May 12-15 in Detroit’s Huntington Place.

Overhead mobility possibilities

The CeiliX technology enables omnidirectional, unrestricted movement along the ceiling.

Its first product is the InfinityCrane, which the company said allows the robot to move freely in any direction, forward, backward, sideways or diagonally, without spatial limitations. At the heart of CeiliX' technology is a modular, ceiling-mounted track system.

The company said it can be quickly installed, flexibly adapted to any space using a modular principle, and easily expanded as requirements grow. Customers can use multiple InfinityCranes simultaneously in the same area without interfering with each other, enableing new functions, such as rotating objects in mid-air.

Monorail to multi-ton freedom

Building on the InfinityCrane architecture, CeiliX developed a Mobile Ceiling-Cobot in collaboration with Kassow Robots by Bosch Rexroth, which was demonstrated at Automate.

Unlike stationary or rail-bound robots, the Mobile Cobot prototype moves freely in all directions along the ceiling rail system. It can access multiple work areas overhead, which CeiliX said creates up to 50 percent additional floor space. Operating overhead, the cobot also expands warehouse safety by avoiding collisions with forklifts, autonomous mobile robots and personnel, while keeping traffic lanes and emergency exits unobstructed.

We’re opening up a new dimension in automation,” said Mathias Entenmann, co-Founder and CEO of CeiliX. “By shifting processes from the floor to the ceiling, we’re not just saving space, we’re creating intelligent overhead systems that adapt, evolve and scale with our customers’ needs. It’s a fundamental change in how factories and logistics facilities can think about movement, safety, and efficiency.”