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In the next ten years, more and more people will work with automation – and not only in traditional industry. A short period of time. The solutions from the KUKA world impressively demonstrate: The future has already begun.
Affordable housing that is available at the drop of a hat: That is the goal of the company TopHat, which is why it has commissioned KUKA to plan, supply, install and commission a robot-based production line. The modular homes can help address the global housing shortage challenge.
Every boss wants a flexible, fast, meticulous employee. And that is precisely what Bastian Fest from FMO Surface found in the LBR iisy. Hand in hand with its team, the cobot now checks Data Matrix codes for quality and completeness. Training the new colleague is quite iisy even with no programming experience.
When it comes to storage, flexibility is increasingly important for companies. This is also reflected in increasing demand for AutoStore Systems from Swisslog. At the electronics company Euronics in Estonia, 28 robots ensure that goods are delivered to customers four to eight times faster than before – time savings amount to two to three hours per delivery. Stationed at the central warehouse in Assaku near Tallinn, the system can handle up to 600 containers per hour and fulfill a customer order within 20 seconds.
With its “Closed Loop Medication”, Swisslog Healthcare has created a management system that records and organizes medications. Together with TheraPick, the intelligent unit dose packaging, storage and picking system, it serves to increase patient safety.
The Dutch family brand Vepo Cheese relies on a fully automated production line: two KR AGILUS hygiene robots from KUKA process cheese into sticks and feed them to a packaging machine. This has raised the standard of hygiene - and doubled production capacity.
New solutions for new markets: a robot for automated apple harvesting. Because many owners of the 4.9 million hectares of apple orchards worldwide, an area larger than Switzerland, lack harvest workers. The KUKA CropBot steps in: a vision system with vacuum suction picks the apples from the tree and packs them. The automation potential is huge; for the apple harvest alone, 1.6 million robots could be used globally.
Cobots can provide support with a view to the future of work. What's more, they can make a positive contribution to the well-being of employees. As in the case of Dietmar, who can only move his shoulder and wrist to a limited extent due to health problems. With "Robbie's" help, a KUKA LBR iiwa, he can continue his nearly 30-year career. Together they work on the assembly line for engine blocks at Ford.
Robotics is making its way into the barely automated textile industry - which employs around 75 million people worldwide. And it is opening up a new chapter for an entire industry. Also for the fashion company C&A, which will initially produce about 400,000 sustainable jeans - and later 800,000 - per year in its "Factory for Innovation in Textiles" in North Rhine-Westphalia with the help of state-of-the-art technologies and KUKA small robots from the AGILUS, SCARA and LBR iisy series.
The team at the research and design studio THE NEW RAW in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has been transforming plastic waste into furniture and other objects with the help of KUKA robots since 2015. For the beach furniture series "The Elements" alone, 720 kilograms of plastic waste from the sea were transformed into beach loungers, changing rooms and walkways.
