Taurob
Taurob GmbH is an Austrian robotics company known for its ATEX-certified Taurob Inspector robot and for winning Total Energies’ ARGOS Challenge in 2017 with TU Darmstadt. Since 2019 it has been part of the Dietsmann Group.
Founded in 2010 by Lukas Silberbauer and Matthias Biegl, Taurob started by making robots for firefighters and later expanded to police, civil defense, military, and the oil and gas industry. In 2012 it launched the Taurob Tracker, the world’s first ATEX-certified robot.
From 2014 to 2017, Taurob and TU Darmstadt formed the ARGONAUTS team and won the ARGOS challenge, earning a plan for the robot to operate on Total Energies sites by 2020. Between 2018 and 2020, Taurob participated in the OGRIP project with Total Energies and the OGTC, which helped develop the Taurob Inspector—an evolution of the Tracker.
In August 2020, the Taurob Inspector achieved the world’s first offshore ATEX deployment on a Total Energies platform in the K5 gas field off the Netherlands, focusing on corrosion surveys and teleoperation from shore. In November 2020, two Inspectors were handed over to TOTAL for a year-long deployment at the Shetland Gas Plant to perform autonomous inspection rounds of an MEG unit (valve readings, corrosion detection, and valve monitoring).
Taurob is currently developing the Offshore Work Class Robot (OWCR) with a heavy-duty arm in a joint project with Total Energies, Equinor, and SAFT. First trials took place in Lacq, France in Q3 2023.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 16:09 (CET).