Swings and roundabouts at Kuka's UK Open Week

Abstract

Kuka Robotics – Automation celebrated 30 years of operation in the UK and a new name by holding an Open Week at its UK headquarters in Halesowen, at which a diverse range of products and application solutions were exhibited. On show was the RoboCoaster, the “world's first passenger carrying robot” aimed at theme parks and fair grounds, a quartet of co‐operating robots, the rapid manufacturing process of surface metal deposition and a robot polishing cell for aerospace cover plates. Two new products from Germany primarily for automotive applications were RoboJig, a flexible robot tooling system for low volume and niche market vehicle components and SmartGrip, a modular “repairable” gripper system for large components such as body sides and underbodies.

Citation

Rooks, B. (2004), "Swings and roundabouts at Kuka's UK Open Week", Industrial Robot, Vol. 31 No. 6, pp. 484-487. https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910410566335