KUKA is showcasing its latest robotics for automation and unmanned

(Nengdong, September 21, 2023) The 23rd Industry Fair was successfully held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). KUKA presented a number of new robots and industry mainstream application units, and held the China New Product Launch Conference and the Intelligent Logistics Pilot Forum. The exhibition area covers products and solutions in the fields of new robotics and vision systems, digital intelligence applications and intelligent logistics. Among them, KUKA has launched a number of heavy-duty robot products, such as KR FORTEC-2 ultra heavy-duty robot and KR SCARA CS series. There are also 2D vision systems, laser cutting workstations and other products. In addition, a variety of solutions for digital intelligence applications to empower new industrial scenarios were also displayed, such as KUKA robot inspection and calibration training station, sorting and unloading system workstation, etc. In the Smart Logistics Zone, KUKA presented the KMP series of autonomous mobile robots and AutoStore dense storage and picking systems.

KR FORTEC-2 ultra: KR 480 R3700-2

The KR FORTEC-2 ultra heavy-duty robot with loads up to 800 kg is designed for processes that quickly and precisely process large parts with high inertia and maintain excellent performance in a compact space. As the star product in the heavy-duty robot series, it has the lightest dead weight in its class, excellent shaft acceleration performance, and the compact and lightweight double-support connecting arm design enables precise and fast handling of heavy, large-size parts with high inertia. In addition to standard products, KUKA supports client product switching and upgrades, which can be converted and upgraded at any time in terms of payload and inertia, and the entire series is available in Foundry versions, which can adapt to special environments such as humidity, high temperatures and dirt. It can be widely used in heavy load scenarios such as lithium battery baking loading and unloading, automotive integrated die-casting pickup, new energy vehicle battery PACK handling, large-scale building glass line transfer and heavy steel beam handling, and is suitable for welding, gluing, machining, handling, palletizing and other working conditions.

KR SCARA CS: KR 20 R1200 Z450 CS

As a new product of the KR SCARA CS, the 20kg is the most powerful, fast and efficient performance. Whether assembling small parts, handling materials or inspecting – the new ultra-compact KR SCARA robot offers immediate efficiency and economic benefits. With the help of various integrated media supply systems, almost any task can be completed "out of the box", suitable for a variety of working conditions such as 3C and other electronic fields.

KR CYBERTECH Edition系列: KR 20 R1820-2 E

In low load classes, the KR CYBERTECH series of industrial robots offers a complete range of high-power-density products worldwide. The series fits perfectly with the space-saving unit streamlined design concept, ensuring excellent performance while minimizing ongoing costs.

2D Vision System: KUKA 2D Vision

It has a variety of operators for positioning, identification, detection, and measurement, based on industrial application scenarios, focusing on guiding positioning and identification application scenarios.

£ DELTA: £3 D1200

Part of the KUKA HO series, the KR 3 D1200 is capable of carrying weights of up to 6 kg, and the KR 3 D1200 is capable of performing a variety of pick-and-place tasks at speeds of up to 0.32s with a repeatable positioning accuracy of ± 0.05 mm, making it suitable for secondary pick-and-place applications in the food, pharmaceutical and electronics sectors.

LBR iisy cobot: LBR iisy 11 R1300

With a rated load of 11 kg, the LBR iisy is a collaborative robot from KUKA with a maximum arm span of 1300 mm and a repeatability of ± 0.05 mm, which not only allows manual push and drop of buttons, but also is equipped with torque sensors on all 6 axes to make the arms more sensitive and coordinated. In addition, the HRC mode ensures safer human-robot collaboration, i.e. IP54 protection with excellent industrial quality.

KUKA robot inspection calibration training station

composed

KR 6 R700 sixx

The KUKA robot inspection and calibration training station workstation demonstrates the automatic calibration of the tool center point (TCP) of KUKA robots and the detection of trajectory accuracy. It can do online detection and real-time compensation for the coordinates of the tool and the processing object at the end of the robot, and can realize automatic detection and program correction without manual intervention in the process of robot processing. The training station is suitable for high-precision machining of robots, especially for application scenarios where processing tools will be lost due to process reasons, and robot education and training.

Pick-and-place system workstation

DELTA robots and SCARA robots are often used in fast-moving places such as sorting and packing of products, and generally require visual guidance. It is from this point that the DELTA and SCARA robots from KUKA Roboter are designed to be flexible and fast. composed

KR 3 D1200

and

KR 6 R700 Z200

Under the visual guidance, the DELTA robot puts messy products into the turnover box quickly and orderly, while the SCARA robot can quickly take out the products from the turnover box. The turnover box position is moved up and down through a special internal structure, and the two robots are used to pick and place materials. The workstation is suitable for packaging logistics, 3C assembly, food and other industries.

Laser cutting workstation

The KUKA Robot laser cutting station is an excellent laser cutting station. Based on

KR 50 R2100

Excellent and stable performance, equipped with KUKA's new generation KR C5 control cabinet and dual-axis KUKA Integrate Cutting Package tool for linkage cutting, not only can highly flexible machining be achieved, but also do not need to write complex program instructions, so as to achieve ideal cutting results. In addition, its compact, compact size and low weight allow the laser cutting head to be equipped with KUKA's highly efficient laser cutting software for high-precision small profile cutting and laser cutting of workpieces of different shapes and sizes.

Robotic stack stacking station

KUKA six-axis robots are used

KR 16-2

Stacking, automatically identify the front and back of the material and the height to grab the material, through the vision system positioning, stacking into the positioning tooling, all the stacking of materials is positioned in the center, improve the stacking accuracy. For materials with separators, such as MEA, MEA and separators can be automatically grabbed at the same time, and MEAs can be automatically discarded and stacked. The robot stacks the materials in turn according to the set program, slides the slide table under the press for automatic pressing, and automatically performs air tightness detection, automatically judges the qualification, and the whole process is automated. Suitable for hydrogen fuel cell industry.

3D vision-guided multi-SKU carton mixing

composed

KR 10 R1100-2

The 3D vision-guided multi-SKU carton mixing workstation can use 3D visual identification and grab cartons of different specifications, plan a reasonable pallet type in real time, and mix cartons onto pallets. It has a high-performance Mech-Eye industrial-grade 3D camera, designed for logistics handling scenarios. Intelligent code mixing algorithm, in real scenarios, cartons of random size can be stacked reasonably. In the real code mixing scenario, the beat can fully meet the customer's needs. The interface is open and easy to use, and supports easy access to AGV/AMR, transmission system, WMS system, etc. It can be applied to logistics, supermarkets, e-commerce, medicine, tobacco, liquor and other fields with a variety of SKUs, such as warehouse warehousing and destacking of cartons and sacks, outbound depalletizing, factory logistics handling, etc.

Sorting of metal parts (torsion spring) materials - flexible workstation

composed

KR 3 R400 Z150 CS

Based on the depth application of KUKA robots with vision, the workstations can be freely gripped and assembled in flexible vibrating plates. The robot can match different specifications of feeding system and vision system, with strong compatibility. In addition, it can support the selection of standard workstations with different specifications to solve feeding difficulties or all-in-one integrated solutions. It can be applied to small batches, diversified product feeding and assembly, focusing on the concept of flexible manufacturing and helping intelligent manufacturing factories.

Smart Welding

composed

KR 6 R1440-2 arc HW

The intelligent welding robot integrated workstation composed of E is an intelligent welding system developed based on the KUKA.Sim Pro platform; With the high-flexibility welding platform, through the 3D intelligent camera algorithm positioning, the product is coarsely positioned, programming-free, teaching-free, and one-key intelligent welding. In addition, the robot path can realize the function of automatic avoidance and automatic obstacle avoidance, and through the laser tracker &Touchsense real-time weld seam tracking, support butt, lap, bevel welding, circular welding, hemming welding and multi-layer multi-pass and other complex welding processes. The station supports output statistics and real-time monitoring, and can be adapted to KUKA robots, welding machines and various welding platforms, suitable for small batches and multiple varieties of welding conditions.

The intelligent logistics exhibition area enables automation and unmanned

KMP 400P

As a new P series professional version intelligent autonomous mobile robot released by KUKA Logistics Automation in July this year, it not only has modular design and rich interfaces, but also can be quickly customized, especially suitable for 3C, PCB, SMT and e-commerce logistics industries. KMP 400P adopts high-standard modular and compact design, light and thin body, dead weight of only 120kg, rated load up to 400kg, support 5G and WIFI communication. The maximum operating speed of KMP 400P under load can reach 1.5m/s, and the operation is accurate and efficient. KMP 400P adapts to highly dynamic environments, that is, it is suitable for scenarios with a dynamic change rate of less than 55%. The KMP 400P dynamically identifies skewed shelves, automatically corrects deviations from the center of the shelf, and dynamically corrects the deviation back to the center of the trajectory for safer walking.

KMP 600i

The KMP 600i is a mobile robot based on KUKA SLAM navigation technology and won the Red Dot Design Award 2022. Using Germany's advanced SLAM navigation algorithm technology, it has high positioning accuracy, good adaptability to dynamic environment, high flexibility, high efficiency and other characteristics, and can be widely used in 3C electronics, new energy, automobiles, white goods, medicine, general industry, e-commerce logistics and other industries.

KMP 1500i

KMP 1500i is a heavy-duty mobile robot product for heavy cargo handling scenarios in the workshop, characterized by intelligence, flexibility, stability and efficiency, and is committed to improving work efficiency, reducing labor costs, and realizing truly unmanned operations. KMP 1500i is based on KUKA Navigation Solution navigation solution, integrating laser SLAM, QR code navigation and visual SLAM, the fastest running speed can reach 1.8m/s, more flexible, smarter and more efficient.

AutoStore dense storage and picking system

The AutoStore system solution provided by Swisslog can be called the "master of time and space management". Under certain space conditions, it is a perfect combination of dense storage and excellent performance, especially suitable for small item order picking. The AutoStore system consists of five components: AutoStore robots, aluminum cargo compartments, storage bins, workstations and Swisslog SynQ logistics management software. The AutoStore robot handles small items flexibly, running at speeds of up to 3.1 m/s and averaging storage and picking speeds of 25 cases per hour. As one of the representatives of the industrial automation sector, KUKA and IME are working together to bring new robot products and automation applications to a wide range of fields.