We are a Berlin-based, creative engineering studio for exploratory technology.

We develop daring concepts, models and technologies to help humans and machines work together more beautifully.
Whether building empowering AI systems, unlocking new R+D opportunities, designing immersive experiences, or reimagining robots as ambassadors for circularity: we help our clients use technology as a medium for meaningful change.

Services

Our studio applies 15 years of expertise within three core services we see enabling regenerative systems and driving positive change.

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Exploration

Strategizing, ideating + thought-leadership

Future Vision Strategy
We dive deep into our clients’ organizational heritage to understand their existing strategic frameworks, identify new growth fields, and develop strategic scaffolds to support the transition to a more mutualistic industrial ecosystem.

Deep-tech Research 
We identify emerging technical opportunities and conduct analyses based on scientific research, patents and industrial applications. We then run risk assessments, before defining the prototyping milestones.

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Development

Concept, manufacturing + prototyping

Concept Design
Using sketches, renders, CAD, hands-on experimentation and industrial tools, we run design and prototyping sprints that challenge traditional technology perception and interaction and reimagine craftsmanship.

Iterative Engineering 
We provide state-of-the-art machining and engineering to our clients and technical partners. With our clients, we define the path from design & functional PoCs to integrated prototypes and Minimum Viable Products.

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Pre-Industrialization

Preparing implementation at scale for pre-industrialization.

MVP Fabrication
We develop data pipelines, AI algorithms, SW architectures and infrastructures for a wide range of outcomes: Industrial PLC, AI + ML applications, robotic OS, system architecture design, intuitive and empowering human machine interfaces.

Pre-scale Testing
We provide end-to-end development from MVP to pre-series. Our MVPs are tested on site, we perform FMEA before certification, staff training and handover to servicing and maintenance partners.

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Selected projects

Being at the vanguard of shaping change allows us to work with visionary institutions and businesses who are ready to think of their role within a broader value chain and lead their respective industries towards regenerative practices.-

Retail The Bot Initiated Longevity Lab is a a robotic array created for Nike to repair and refresh worn sneakers.

Apparel A portable, semi-automated repair module for Nike that enables adherence of heat-activated patches in under a minute.

Mobility Ultra-light, shape-shifting vehicle skins for reduced emissions

Retail Automated packaging processes for reduced distribution waste

Energy Robotic lay-up work station for precision gas turbine manufacture

Mobility Platform strategy for a modular suite of regenerative lifestyle solutions

Urban planning Research and analysis of city archetypes and the forces shaping future urban design

Infrastructure Off-grid infrastructure designs to connect communities to safe resources

Design Development of AI-powered proportional design software for automotive concepts

Retail Glocal network of retail innovation labs for tailored, immersive experiences

Mobility Car interior design that harnesses bio-materials for greater sustainability

Electronics Circular framework for electronics R+D

Logistics Fleet management application to ease the transition to emission-free, urban deliveries

Electronics Haptic SW/HW prototype

Retail Smart, pneumatic tube delivery system and robotic storage for enhanced customer experience

Air Filtration Predictive maintenance software to extend the product life of air filters

Energy Software to enable remote maintenance for wind turbines

Infrastructure Development of an off-grid power storage and wind energy solution for a hospital in Ethiopia

Mobility Autonomous driving seat buck

Current news

PCH Innovations in London with the Bot Initiated Longevity Lab

For the month of September our robotics team will be based in Nike Town, London to operate B.I.L.L. (the Bot Initiated Longevoty Lab) – a robot we built for Nike to clean and repair sneakers. If you're in London, come by and watch it at work. To find out more about the project, click here.

The drying module of the Bot Initiated Longevity Lab (B.I.L.L.) for Nike.

Our technologists' hands-on approach to early, rapid prototyping

A gas turbine manufacturing robot

Inverted garden air purification concept

Circuit board close-up – where robotics becomes art

Behind the scenes of one of our robots

Technical drawing of an automated packaging station

Testing CADs for a robotic packaging system

Future city archetypes installation

App to monitor EV fleets

Onboarding app for EV drivers

Team News

PCH on Instagram

Our client work and studio experiments yield a lot of research, ideas, hard-working prototypes and hard-won wisdom that don't always fit on our website. So, we decided to give some of this work (and the magic in between), a common home on Instagram.

What if 3D design was so intuitive, you could use simple language to express yourself?

PCH has always looked for new ways to harmonize technological capability with human imagination. In the first of our Eye on AI series we introduce BLANK AI, the AI-powered, 3D surfacing assistant we developed to do just that — and show its potential to rethink collaborative concept creation.

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PCH embarks on circular textile project with CISUTAC

PCH Innovations has joined the Circular and Sustainable Textile and Clothing (CISUTAC) consortium, a project committed to advancing repair and disassembly through automation.

PCH and Nike launch sneaker-repair bot

After 2.5 years of close collaboration, the B.I.L.L. robot is now in action in Niketown, London, working hard to extend the lifecycle of hard-working sneakers.

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Graft book feature

We were happy to be asked to contribute our thoughts on new mobility to architecture, urban planning and design studio, Graft's latest book: Identity.

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Innovating for Regeneration

Innovation has been PCH’s business since 2006 but also an internal studio pledge that we uphold — sometimes by design, sometimes by necessity. We took some time to reflect on how our innovation journey has changed not only what we make but what we make it for, and why.

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Ready to think big with us?

Email us at moonshots@pch-innovations.com