Gerotto is showcasing its acceleration in robotic innovation at the 2026 edition of IFAT, taking place from May 4 to 7 in Munich, Germany. The trade fair is an international benchmark dedicated to environmental technologies, with more than 3,200 exhibitors from over 60 countries, where cutting-edge solutions in water management, waste recycling and the circular economy will be showcased.
The Italian company will be present with two booths – C4.321 and the outdoor area C34.25 – bringing its full range of robotic solutions for tank cleaning, industrial cleaning and environmental remediation.
IFAT 2026 will be the opportunity to present the first step of the Gerotto AI-Ecosystem. The innovation will be showcased at booth C4.321, where a dedicated demo area will feature the new G-OPTICAM cameras: cameras connected to an artificial intelligence system designed to monitor events and scan the working environment in real time. The cameras are certified ATEX Zone 0 for the European market and IECEx Zone 0 for the rest of the world. The company is among the few worldwide to hold the voluntary IECEx certification, which represents a technological passport for explosion-proof technologies. Thanks to the integration between cameras and artificial intelligence, users will be able to write multilingual prompts, retrieve data on near-miss events and generate reports on tasks and equipment performance. The company has also begun using its own dedicated data room for algorithm training, with the aim of developing an agent-based language capable of enabling the robotic automation of the future.
‘The AI-Ecosystem project is a fundamental step in the innovation strategy we are pursuing,’ says Alessandro Gerotto, CEO of the company. ‘As an AI adopter, we aim to contribute to our industry with the goal of shaping the no-man entry robotics of the future: robotics based on intelligent machines connected to the working environment and to operators. The AI-Ecosystem represents our new way to ensure ever higher levels of safety, operational continuity and industrial asset integrity.’
Across the two booths in Munich, the full range of Gerotto robots will be on display. In the outdoor area (between halls C3 and C4), a 20-foot container will showcase the company’s flagship solution for tank cleaning: a system featuring the Lombrico S ATEX and IECEx Zone 0 robot and a Zone 1 certified Control Room, designed to respond to the needs of a worldwide oil and gas market with more than 500,000 tanks in refineries and tank terminals. Also located in the outdoor area will be E-Dozer, the wireless battery-powered robot designed for handling contaminated soil. Gatto, on the other hand, is the digger used in demolition and solid material removal operations.
Indoors, at booth C4.321, visitors will find Lombrico FTC – Gerotto’s solution for cleaning the more than 6 million underground tanks at service stations worldwide – Lombrico XXS ATEX Zone 0 for tank cleaning, and The Bull, an underwater robot equipped with an onboard centrifugal pump for cleaning water treatment plants and fire water storage tanks.
