Category: Robotics

Robotics

KUKA Robots

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KUKA Robots – One Brand for Progress

KUKA Robots offers industrial robots in various versions with various payload capacities and reaches. Their spectrum of products also includes the appropriate robot peripheral equipment – from linear units to end effectors. Combined with cutting-edge software and innovative controllers, we develop individual solutions for your manufacturing processes together with you. Whether for maximum speeds behind the safety fence of your system, as a mobile solution for your Industrie 4.0 requirements, or direct collaboration between humans and machines in HRC operation. KUKA Robots is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. It has been predominantly owned by the Chinese company Midea Group since 2016.

KUKA Robots is a global automation corporation with around 3.3 billion euros in sales and roughly 14,000 employees. The company is headquartered in Augsburg, Germany. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of intelligent automation solutions, KUKA offers customers everything they need from a single source: from robots and cells to fully automated systems and their networking in markets such as automotive, electronics, metal & plastic, consumer goods, e-commerce/retail, and healthcare.

Whether it is robotics, automation, logistics, or electronics – KUKA merges its expertise with a single goal: to give its customers a decisive edge. With this aim, the KUKA brand sets global standards. Customized solutions of top quality have been an expression of their focus on customers’ needs since their founding.

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Hyundai acquired Boston Dynamics

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In 2021, Hyundai Robotics acquired Boston Dynamics, Inc.

Hyundai Motor Group is actively developing the robotics field as a future growth engine for the 4th industrial revolution. In 2021, they acquired ‘Boston Dynamics, Inc., a US robot company, and developed a ‘Factory Safety Service Robot’ equipped with artificial intelligence-based software.

According to the Hyundai Robotics team, the robotic market is expected to increase as it expands into various fields. Recently, mobility-specialized companies are increasing their investment to link technology with artificial intelligence and manufacturing fields. For example, under the goal of ‘Progress for Humanity.

Hyundai and Kia Motors recognized this as a ‘customer-oriented manufacturing platform implemented with technology’ and unveiled ‘E-FOREST,’ a smart factory brand. E-FOREST is ‘Auto-FLEX,’ meaning flexible and advanced assembly, logistics, and inspection automation; ‘Intelligent,’ meaning the establishment of an AI-based autonomous control system; It aims for three values, ‘Humanity,’ and plans to open up the infinite possibilities of future mobility by organically connecting people, nature, and technology.

The most significant value of Hyundai Motor Group is ‘people-oriented.’ This is why Hyundai Motor Group puts excellent effort into robot R&D. This is because the more precisely the robot evolves, the safer and more convenient life can be. The robotics field is one of the five new businesses that are the future growth engine of Hyundai Motor Group. The three robot fields – wearable robots, service robots, and micro-mobility – are the answer to the age of the 4th industrial revolution and an aging society, where advanced technologies and concerns about technological alienation coexist.

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