With the help of human-robot collaboration, workers and lightweight robots can form a productive team in production. Thanks to their cognitive superiority, humans are the strategists, while robots contribute their repetition accuracy, strength and endurance to the collaboration while adhering to prescribed safety standards. This will also gradually improve the capabilities of robots: they will become better at collaborating with humans, master gesture and voice control, perceive their environment and intuitively integrate themselves into changing processes. Intelligent machines will be mobile and capable of learning, sharing knowledge, acting in a swarm and thus playing a key role in the factory of the future.

Optimized for MRK

In order to meet future requirements such as easy handling and flexible manufacturing processes, robot manufacturers are launching new lightweight robots, or LBRs for short. Kuka is no exception. With the sensitive iisy lightweight robot, the Swabian robot specialist is expanding its portfolio in the field of human-robot collaboration in the low payload range. The prototype of the LBR iisy was presented to a wide audience at Automatica. Following the LBR iiwa, the world's first series-produced sensitive lightweight robot for industry, series production of the automation specialist's second sensitive robot will begin in 2019.

Entry into everyday working life

The name says it all: LBR iisy is easy to use. It is aimed at a target group that has process knowledge, but not necessarily programming knowledge. LBR programming is quick to learn, easy to understand and can be implemented immediately. The user-friendly system adapts to the user's level of expertise with different operating levels - from Java programming to simple manual teaching of the cobot. This principle is intended to pave the way for robotics in everyday working life in the long term.