KUKA Innovation Award 2024

With the new challenge for 2024, we want to bring collaborative automation to the people. For that reason, the KUKA Innovation Award will be based on our recently introduced robot operating system and ecosystem iiQKA and our lightweight robot LBR iisy. This enables the robotics community to implement their own hardware and software extensions on a KUKA robot much easier than before, making a modern, powerful and scalable basis for technology innovation within robotics available.

Comprised under the motto “Robots for the people”, we encourage all participants this year to develop innovative applications, enabling technology and software that help to transform and automate craft related use cases based on collaborative robotics.

Many tasks in small and medium sized craft related companies are not automated yet. Your contribution shall simplify the engineering, setup and programming or execution of tasks and processes for companies and craftsmen. In that way iiQKA and the LBR iisy should be made usable as a flexible tool for machine tending, glue dispensing, quality inspection or other typical automation tasks. Unleash your creativity and revolutionize how people interact and use robots in their daily work life.

Send us your innovative idea, describing use cases where robots today face major challenges in interacting with their real-world environment, including human-robot collaboration. The focus should be on introducing and demonstrating new and interactive methods to personalize and improve usability with our robot.

The introduced concept should be versatile and in no way limited to one technical approach to solving a specific use case. Participants are encouraged to present ideas that may lead to or are already close to commercialization.