Robe at ISE 2025 Robe and its associated businesses report having enjoyed a "brilliantly busy" ISE 2025 expo in Barcelona. The company presented its largest stand to date in Hall 6, launching two products -- the iSTROBE and the iESPRITE LT -- and showing a range of other new technologies as well as staging a high-octane one-person live show with gravity-challenging acrobat Oskar Skrypko. CEO Josef Valchar comments, "ISE has definitely established itself as a major European trade show for lighting manufacturers and has made great efforts to ensure we can present our products in the right environment. That's why we launched innovative new tech there this year -- with fantastic results. We look forward to 2026 already -- with big plans!" EES/EARPRO (Robe's Spanish and Portuguese distributor) had a showroom set up for full-scale product demos. An on-booth demo area incorporated all of Robe businesses -- Avolites, Anolis, LSC Control Systems, and Artistic Licence -- in one slickly designed and fully aligned branded environment. The company says iSTROBE's four-in-one approach makes it a fully flexible unit with a powerful RGBW wash element that can be a strobe, a wash, a blinder, and an effects light delivering a blistering 1,000W of strobe power. Three independent zoom modules in an IP-rated body ensure the unit can be an authentic wash. While pixel control is an industry standard on these types of units, Robe's R&D team has added 1,000W of warm white and amber LEDs into the central optical module so iSTROBE can also be used as a classic blender thanks to the tungsten emulation feature of this module. The unit's continuous pan and tilt rotation enables "a myriad of retinal-burning imaginative effects," the company says. IP-rated and weighing just 37kg, Robe says the iESPRITE LTL's "super-intensive beams due to xR7 technology plus numerous cool features make the it the most powerful LED WashBeam in its class." It adds, "Rental companies were delighted to see practical features like removable handles (an optional accessory) which will delight riggers and techs, while the fixture design also retains full integrity with the handles removed.)" TheLEDPointe, launched at LDI in December, was shown in Europe for the first time. The company says, "This fixture offers truly multifunctional characteristics and a homogenized output so it can be a proper beam, a perfect spot, an effects source or a wash luminaire. People loved the linear zoom, smooth CMY, new gobo design selection and very fast pan/tilt movement along with continuous pan rotation." Those curious about comparisons between the LEDPointe and the classic lamp-based Pointe and MegaPointe fixtures could see these side by side in the offsite demo area. Other new products included the SVB1 4Bar, a prewired and pre-rigged solution for fast installation and setup, and the T31 CYC, a compact cyc unit with high-quality optics. A live performance act -- related to Robe's ongoing Fifth Dimension trade show trilogy presentation -- was specially devised for ISE by Robe's in-house creative team. It is the first time Robe has staged a live show at this exhibition, and it was designed specifically to show all the different lighting technologies working in a real-time real-world scenario. The four-and-a-half-minute performance played five times a day and involved Skrypko, his Chinese pole, and some interactive lighting and effects, with the new iSTROBE and SVB1 fixtures, following a narrative of Skrypko trying to "tame" the pole to catapult himself back to the Fifth Dimension. The acrobatics took place in the middle of the stand, lit with approximately 170 different Robe fixtures coming in from all directions, programmed and run on an Avolites D9 console, with an Avo AI Q3Pro media server for the bespoke show video content playing on the LED screen at the back, also produced in-house. The ESPRITE LTL also played a prominent role in lighting Skrypko, illustrating its brightness against the LED screen. Robe T15 Fresnels on pantographs and the new Robe T.5 Profile assisted with the general stage wash and breakup gobos highlighting the between-show looks. The Fifth Dimension also illustrated how Robe's iBOLT can be safely and smartly used for effects and illuminating in indoor spaces; for the first time, FOOTSIE2 fixtures on the stage floor in the footlight positions were pixel-mapped and zoned via a RoboSpot system during Skrypko's performance. Anolis, Robe's architectural LED lighting division, occupied an elegant new-look section of the booth and showcased its products designed to enhance any building or space, exterior or interior. At the Avolites area, both Diamond7 consoles -- the 215 and the 330 variants -- attracted attention with their balance of power, ergonomic front panel controls, touch screens, and portability; the D7-215 fits into a 1615 Peli-Air Case for flying on the plane. Australia-based LSC, which became part of the Robe Group last year, produces products for leading theatres, opera houses, theme parks and television studios worldwide. At ISE, the LSC team was full-on with visitors seeking demos of these popular systems. Both UNITY and UNITOUR were a huge attraction, the company says, with demos non-stop throughout. Products in the Artistic Licement limelight included the new artCore replay and integration controller and the artPlay 10" touchscreen controller, which were "absolute hits with our colleagues, distributors, and customers," says product application specialist Tim Smith. artPlay is designed for a performance space, house of worship, or any space where simple and intuitive, non-technical control is needed while artCore offers a simple and efficient approach to stand-alone or networked control of facades, landscapes, and a diversity of environments where integration of lighting with other systems is necessary. The formal launch of these products will be in the coming months. 
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