Real-World Interaction Challenge: The full range of ideas
KUKA is known above all for its versatile and powerful industrial robots. But the sensitive lightweight robot LBR iiwa can also master many tasks that arise in real life. Scenarios that seem not complicated to humans – serving ice cream, combing hair, layering wood or measuring liquids – require the use of complex algorithms and numerous sensors. At the 2018 Innovation Award, the lightweight robots of the finalist teams mastered all these challenges with flying colors: