Kuka Innovation Award 2023 presented
Automation becomes accessible
The Kuka Innovation Award 2023 was all about simple operation and maximum flexibility of robots. For the first time, the robotics competition was based on the new Kuka robot operating system and associated ecosystem iiQKA.
iiQKA offers open interfaces. It is intuitive to use and makes it easy to implement hardware and software extensions on a Kuka robot. This makes automation more accessible and new tasks can be automated, especially in small and medium-sized companies. More and more people in new areas and more and more industries are coming into contact with robotics and automation.
Tenth round of the Kuka Innovation Award
"Innovative software solutions, new cobots and creative concepts make automation more easily available," said Dr. Kristina Wagner, Senior Vice President of the Kuka Automation Software Factory. "With the tenth round of the Kuka Innovation Award, we have addressed this development. For the first time, our finalists have realized their ideas with iiQKA and our cobot LBR iisy. We were impressed by the concepts around simple operation and maximum flexibility, especially for small and medium-sized companies."
The results of the research team from Milan were convincing
The research team from the Merlin Laboratory at the Italian Politecnico di Milano ultimately won over the international jury. Jarvis worked on the development of a complete plug-and-play method for programming collaborative robotics applications, for example for assembly and packaging, which is fully integrated into the iiQKA ecosystem. Together with the integration of artificial intelligence into the new iiQKA ecosystem, the concept enables unskilled operators to instruct the robot for a new task and generalize to unknown situations, including new tasks and product variants. Thanks to AI, the robot can adapt to changes in the work area without production downtime.
Use robots quickly and without detours
Jarvis is primarily aimed at small and medium-sized companies in the manufacturing industry that want to deploy collaborative robots quickly and easily and use them effectively for placement and assembly.
As part of the "Open Platform Challenge", the motto of this year's Kuka Innovation Awards, young robotics talents from all over the world submitted their innovative concepts for simpler engineering, setup and programming. An international jury selected the three best final teams. They presented their concepts to an international audience of experts directly at the Kuka stand at the automatica trade fair in Munich.
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