The Supervisory Board of the KUKA Group has decided to prematurely appoint CEO Peter Mohnen as Chief Executive Officer until 2024. CFO Andreas Pabst will move to the Midea Robotics and Automation division as CFO in July 2021.

Greater efficiency, greater cost-effectiveness and greater flexibility: there are a number of benefits attributed to robotic process automation within the plastics industry, all which ultimately support process optimisation.

Within the new generation of the KR CYBERTECH nano series, KUKA is now also presenting the specialists for continuous-path applications such as arc welding, adhesive bonding or sealant application: the KR CYBERTECH nano ARC family. In the low payload category, the robots deliver maximum performance at minimal costs.

The Daimler automotive group and the Augsburg-based automation specialist KUKA have signed a new framework contract for the coming years.

At a southern German automotive manufacturer, a KUKA KR 6 R900 sixx robot from the KR AGILUS series precisely picks up unsorted clutch discs out of wire baskets and transfers them to the honing machine for further processing. This is made possible by the transmission of coordinates via 3D vision sensor.

Artificial intelligence to automate demanding two-handed tasks - this is the idea that won a team of researchers from Leuven in Belgium the KUKA innovation competition worth 20,000 euros.

As easy to use as a smartphone: At Hannover Messe, KUKA presents the first look at its new operating system, iiQKA.OS, which will significantly simplify robot use.

Experts from KUKA and Webasto discussed the mobility of tomorrow in KUKA's digital press conference series "Join us for a coffee…". The focus was on intelligent automation in electromobility.

It is the proverbial thorn in the side of UK manufacturing: the skills gap – a fundamental discrepancy between the skills that employers require in their employees, and the skills that job seekers have.

A conversation about buying a robot is just the beginning for any manufacturer considering automated processes.