Clean room robot solutions for semiconductor manufacturing

KUKA technologies and robotics for cleanroom device manufacturing meet the high requirements for purity, cleanliness and functionality in semiconductor manufacturing. They combine extreme agility and maximum precision – even with short cycle times.

Designed for the stringent clean working requirements of the semiconductor industry: KUKA places particular emphasis on cleanrooms and facility safety.

Especially for cleanroom manufacturing, KUKA offers low-particle and low-emission robots, cobots, and platforms for the manufacture and safe handling of highly sensitive microelectronic devices, such as chips and semiconductors. Even our own production facility operates under this strict cleanroom environment.

Together with system partners, KUKA supplies future-proof Industrie 4.0 solutions for the semiconductor industry with perfectly matched hardware and software meeting the demands of networking capability and manufacturing flexibility.

Robot technology for semiconductor device manufacturing from a single supplier

Robotics in cleanroom design

Clean room robots and (mobile) cobots with a high cleanroom classifications – for example, thanks to internally-located, encapsulated guide mechanisms and cables as well as integrated drive technology
Software for mobile applications

Intelligent, SEMI SECS-compliant software packages, specific to semiconductor manufacturing.
Engineering & Customer Service

We offer customized, application-specific packages to meet your requirements.
KUKA TechCenters around the world with global standards

KUKA TechCenters are available to customers as test laboratories at various facility locations, including in Taiwan and China.

Tailored to cleanrooms from head to toe: industrial robots for semiconductor manufacturing and mobile cobots from KUKA.

Precise and fast robots of a high cleanroom class: greater safety through additional certification by the Fraunhofer Institute (ISO 14644-1)

Cleanroom-relevant criteria are already taken into account during the development of our robots Given their high ISO class, our standard robots are thus already suitable to integrate into many cleanroom applications.

They have special, easy-to-clean surfaces as well as special primer coatings, seals and paint finishes on every axis. As standard, they are ESD-compatible and tested by Fraunhofer IPA for cleanroom suitability.

Cleanroom equipment is essential for the production of silicon wafer discs

Fraunhofer IPA is one of the world’s leading institutes in the fields of ultraclean production and contamination control. We have been work closely with KUKA for over 18 years. Firstly in the context of the Fraunhofer Tested Device® and CSM® cleanroom certifications, and also with a view to the design of robots to meet cleanliness requirements.

Dr. Frank Bürger, Fraunhofer IPA

Find the right cleanroom-compliant kinematic system/device for your task:

LBR iiwa CR - collaborative robot (7-14 kg payload)

The sensitive LBR iiwa cobot is particularly suited for the handling of sensitive substrates thanks to its position and compliance control.

Safety Category 3 (certificate)
Reach: 800 - 820 mm
Meets the ISO standard of class 3 cleenrooms
7 axes cobot
KUKA Sunrise Cabinet controller

Learn more about the LBR iiwa.

LBR iiwa in ultra-clean room environment of semiconductor device fabrication

KMR iiwa CR - mobile cobot (7-14 kg robot payload, 170 kg platform payload)

The KMR iiwa is suitable for loading process machines without the need for structural adaptations.

Autonomous navigation
Omnidirectional
Integrated SEMI standards
Fleet management
Freely scalable, modular system
ISO 3 cleanroom for semiconductor
Certificate (PDF), based on the ISO 14644-1 criteria

Learn more about the KMR iiwa.

The location-independent and highly flexible KMR iiwa offers the perfect basis for meeting the requirements of Industrie 4.0.

KR AGILUS CR (6-10 kg payload)

The extremely fast and precise KR AGILUS in the cleanroom variant is a specialist for numerous manufacturing processes such as reticle / wafer testing.

Reach: 706.7 - 1101 mm
Meets the ISO standard of class 2 cleenrooms
Integrated energy supply system
Special KR C5 micro small robot controller
Certificate (PDF)

Learn more about the KR AGILUS.

High-speed semiconductor machine enables effective manufacturing of electronic devices in cleane environment

KR CYBERTECH CR (20 kg payload)

Thanks to its smooth and sensitive motion characteristics, the KR CYBERTECH is predestined for the handling of semiconductor equipment

Reach: 1810 mm
Cleanroom specifications ISO 5
Streamlined design – space-saving cell concept
Certificate (PDF)

Learn more about the KR CYBERTECH.

The semiconductor machine KR CYBERTECH suits perfect for handling of bigger wafer sizes

Mobile cobots for clean room manufacturing: the safe handling of sensitive components.

The industrial manufacturing enviroment of tomorrow requires mobile production and logistics concepts which are intelligently networked, modular and versatile.
Mobile cleanroom cobots (KMR iiwa) guarantee the safe transportation and handling of sensitive components, such as wafers, chips, masks and carriers from one process to the next. They can navigate a facility in all directions autonomously and without the need to integrate safety fencing.

e-book: Next-level automation with KUKA robotics for cleanrooms

You need an individual solution?

Utilizing our expertise and experience, we would be happy to advise you and work with you to find the perfect solution to your specific manufacturing challenges.

Case Studies in the consumer electronics industry

Read our case studies for more about the advantages of KUKA robotics for the semiconductor industry and browse our applications database for the electronics device industry.

Automated wafer fabrication in clean room handling

At Infineon, the ISO 3-certified cleanroom robots ensure safe collaboration and safe handling of wafers with maximum precision.

Mobile cobots for semiconductor production

The KUKA Wafer Handling Solution is a mobile robotic solution (Semi Mobility) that enables automated material handling in semiconductor and electronic component manufacture.