Sep 19 2014
The international competition for the KUKA Innovation Award 2015 has begun. The submission of entries from research and developer teams in the field of robot-based automation began at the beginning of September.
The LBR iiwa will be the focus of the KUKA Innovation Award 2015
Human-robot collaboration is the focus of this year’s call for participation, with the winning team to receive a prize of € 20,000. The challenge for the applicants is to demonstrate their application operating in a realistic working environment.
In order to ensure identical conditions and thus enable a fair comparison between the participants, the application or key robotics technology is to be implemented with the LBR iiwa robot. The LBR iiwa (intelligent industrial work assistant) is the world’s first sensitive lightweight robot which can be used for safe human-robot collaboration. It opens up new areas of application for robotics – in the direct vicinity of humans and without safety fences.
Interested researchers and developers who have experience using the LBR iiwa and have access to a robot can submit their entries to KUKA by 15 February 2015. Teams without access to an LBR iiwa can apply to borrow an LBR iiwa free of charge for the duration of the competition by 15 October 2014.