KUKA — Robotics R&D
European industrial robot leader, now owned by Midea Group (China). KUKA created the LBR iiwa cobot — the world's first truly collaborative robot — and KR AGILUS series used in aerospace and electronics.
Notable achievements
LBR iiwa (first cobot, now sold as Kuka), KR AGILUS, KUKA System Software (KSS), automotive leadership, Midea acquisition (2016, $5B).
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Uncertainty-guided evolvable recognition framework for industrial robots via prototype-based fuzzy inference and evidence fusion
Yanrun Zhou, Zihao Lei, Guangrui Wen +4 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Physics-informed adaptive Kalman filter for contact force estimation in industrial robots considering model uncertainty
Hongbo Hu, Jia Ma, Yuhan Lu +1 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
A machine learning–based tool for enhancing position accuracy in industrial robots with a reduced dataset
Giuseppe Romano, Pietro Bilancia, Alberto Locatelli +3 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
PATRAS: Pragmatic assistive tool for mechanical risk assessment of collaborative applications
Gustavo Novak, Vincent Weistroffer, Jonathan Savin +4 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Development of vibration-based RV reducer diagnostic criteria and factory evaluation standards.
Wang X, Wei J, Ding Y +2 more
Scientific reports · 2026