The KUKA Innovation Award is going into the next round. In 2022, everything revolves around the "Robotics in Healthcare Challenge". Researchers, developers, and young entrepreneurs from all over the world can now submit their concepts for the €20,000 prize.

Small and medium-sized companies are benefiting more and more from automa-tion. A "hidden champion" from Lower Bavaria in Germany now relies on a robotic cell from KUKA for welding fans for drying systems. The workforce first had to be convinced to use the new technology.

A KUKA small robot is part of the Audi Experience at the FC Bayern Munich flagship store.

The latest generation of electrified drives is produced at the Dingolfing site in Germany, the BMW Group competence center for e-drive production. Here, KUKA implemented a fully automated test system for testing up to eight different drive variants. For more than 35 years, KUKA has been successfully integrating assembly and test systems for the automotive industry internationally and optimizing their production through efficient automation solutions.

At KUKA, we understand technology. We understand manufacturing and the business case for investing in automation, but we cannot be masters of everything.

As with many manufacturing regions, the challenge of bridging the skills gap is omnipresent.

At an extraordinary meeting, the KUKA Supervisory Board appointed Alexander Tan as a member of the Management Board.

From June 22 to 24, KUKA, as an automation expert and innovator, will be looking to the future.

For seven years now, KUKA has been supporting BACA Systems with innovative robotic solutions in the stone cutting industry. The cooperation is now being expanded with a new order: the US company has ordered 100 KUKA robots.

Automation specialist KUKA presents the new version of its smart simulation software: KUKA.Sim 4.0 With KUKA.Sim 4.0, details and sequences of robot applications can be realistically simulated even before start-up and then transferred 100 percent to the real controller.