Robotic handling
With our handling robots, suitable software packages and a comprehensive range of services, we offer optimally tailored robotic handling solutions for virtually every sector: From assembly and pick & place to material transport.
Automated handling offers enormous advantages
Our broad robotics portfolio enables you to automate the handling of a wide variety of goods. With a payload capacity of up to 1.3 tonnes, our handling robots can be used for a range of applications to ease the burden on your production employees, as well as to maximize profitability in your company. With a network of system partners and worldwide support, we also offer you high-quality customer service. Enjoy all the benefits of automation with KUKA – from planning your system to commissioning, including comprehensive services:
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Strong robot portfolio
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Maximum flexibility
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Connectivity
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Low energy consumption
With KUKA linear units, you add a further axis to the robot, thereby considerably extending its work envelope. Our controllers for large robots (KR C5) and small robots (KR C5 micro) round out the package.
Handling robots for industrial sectors with high requirements
The requirements in demanding industries, such as primary and secondary manufacturing are enormous. When it comes to handling, KUKA enables you to meet these requirements. We offer different robotics variants for sectors with high hygiene standards, such as the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries, as well as for sensitive, ultraclean production environments in the electronics industry and battery cell production. You can effortlessly use our robots for handling in strictly regulated production areas:
Expertise in every handling process
We offer a large variety of automation solutions for a wide range of different handling processes, which we can precisely tailor to your production. From bin picking and palletizing to transport:?
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Material transport
In a manufacturing process, it is important that products get from A to B smoothly, quickly and efficiently. From automated guided vehicles to mobile robots and navigation systems, we equip you with all the components you need for a smooth transport process.
Bin picking
In bin picking, structured, semi-structured, or chaotically distributed objects are gripped and then set down at a desired drop-off point. For this purpose, the robot requires a precise vision system. KUKA offers a selection of reliable software options for object recognition, such as KUKA.SmartBinPicking. This guarantees smooth handling, for example of bulk materials of any kind – also in your production facility.
Pick & place
In pick-and-place applications, components are picked up, positioned and placed. It is one of the most commonly used processes in manufacturing.?With the intelligent KUKA.PickControl software package, which is specially tailored to picking and packing tasks, in combination with our wide range of robots, you can increase the possibilities of this application many times over.
Palletizing
Automated palletizing involves the sorting of goods on a pallet, which is used, among other things, to simplify transport and to bundle groups of goods. KUKA offers various forms of palletizing: mono-palletizing, mixed palletizing, depalletizing and cold storage palletizing.
Our KUKA.PalletTech software package offers a cost-effective palletizing solution that focuses on mono-palletizing.
Packaging
Packaging is the wrapping of a product to protect it from its environment. We offer several robots for this purpose. Our top models are the KR QUANTEC, which can be equipped with a bendable vacuum gripper for precise carton folding, and the LBR iiwa cobot, which is mainly used for folding and stapling corrugated blanks.
Linking
In order to link work sequences efficiently between machines and systems, KUKA offers a comprehensive portfolio of linear robots and linear units. Automated linking between machine tools, further processing systems or injection molding machines ensures maximum flexibility in your production facility. Our automated guided vehicle systems complement the automation solution.
Loading and unloading of machines
Machine tending is a monotonous and repetitive task that can be optimally automated using our robotic systems. Our robots can handle the loading and removal of parts in the machine, the handling of pallets with a zero clamping system, and the opening and closing of machine doors. This enables, among other things, the automated control of CNC machine tools. In robotic tool handling, tools can be changed directly on the machine or with the aid of an internal tool changer.
Assembly
Industrial assembly is one of the core tasks in manufacturing and production. With our robotic systems, you can automate not only the handling of workpieces and quality assurance, but also handling tasks between assembly steps. Collaborative robots such as the LBR iisy and LBR iiwa cobots enable safe working without fences (Human-Robot Collaboration, HRC).
Software options for any handling task
Whether it's a matter of gripping and positioning, palletizing, packing, transferring, loading or assembling - we offer the right software solution for every handling task.
