Robotic handling

With our handling robots, suitable software packages and a comprehensive range of services, we offer optimally tailored robotic handling solutions for virtually every sector: From assembly and pick & place to material transport.

What does handling mean with KUKA?

Automated handling offers enormous advantages

Our broad robotics portfolio enables you to automate the handling of a wide variety of goods. With a payload capacity of up to 1.3 tonnes, our handling robots can be used for a range of applications to ease the burden on your production employees, as well as to maximize profitability in your company. With a network of system partners and worldwide support, we also offer you high-quality customer service. Enjoy all the benefits of automation with KUKA – from planning your system to commissioning, including comprehensive services:

Strong robot portfolio
- Handling robots for every application
- Payload capacities from 3 kg up to 1300 kg
- Long reach up to 3904 mm
- Easy upgrade to higher payload capacity
- High-speed robots
- Utmost accuracy
- Robots for special environmental conditions
Maximum flexibility
- Broad spectrum of reaches that can be extended using linear axes
- Wide range of different mounting options
- Small footprint
- Standardized products with short delivery times
Connectivity
- Flexible connection to periphery via various interfaces and bus systems
- Connection to various grippers and sensors, such as laser scanners, force torque sensors, image processing systems, etc.
- Monitoring of the robot fleet via KUKA iiQoT cloud software
Low energy consumption
- Energy-efficient design of robot and controller
- Optimized energy model
- Energy-saving overall system
- Reduced global footprint
- Reduced CO2 emissions

Strong robotics portfolio for automated handling

We offer robots with a wide range of payload capacities, reaches and variants to master your handling task. Furthermore, with our mobile robotics you are even more flexible in the design of your production facility.

Cobots and pick & place robots

LBR iisy cobot (payload capacity: 3-15 kg)

The cobot impresses with its simple operator control and takes over monotonous, non-ergonomic handling tasks, e.g. in machine tending and pick-and-place applications.

KR DELTA (payload capacity: 3 kg)

The pick-and-place robot is perfectly suited to handling tasks in the high-speed range. At the same time, it requires little space despite its large workspace.

KR SCARA (payload capacity: 6-12 kg)

Thanks to very short cycle times and high repeatability, the compact SCARA robot enables versatile operation in small parts assembly or material handling.

Handling robots for low to medium payload capacities

KR AGILUS (payload capacity: 8-10 kg)

The small handling robot is the first choice for loading and unloading machines. It impresses with utmost precision in confined spaces, versatile installation positions and reaches.

KR CYBERTECH (payload capacity: 8-22 kg)

The space-saving multifunction robot specializes in handling and assembling large components. It is supplemented by the KR CYBERTECH nano for the handling of small parts.

KR IONTEC (payload capacity: 20-70 kg)

With a reach of up to 3,100 mm, the streamlined industrial robot has the largest work envelope in its class while simultaneously offering a small footprint.

All-rounder for heavy handling tasks

KR QUANTEC (payload capacity: 120-300 kg)

When machine tending or bin picking, for example, involves very large and heavy parts, this reliable and efficient industrial robot comes into its own.

KR FORTEC ultra (payload capacity: 340-500 kg)

The jointed-arm robot handles heavy loads with maximum repeatability. The six-axis masterful mover is also extremely versatile.

KR 1000 titan (payload capacity: 750-1300 kg)

Even over greater distances of up to 6.5 meters, the heavy-duty robot masters the handling of large payloads and heavy tools precisely and quickly.

With KUKA linear units, you add a further axis to the robot, thereby considerably extending its work envelope. Our controllers for large robots (KR C5) and small robots (KR C5 micro) round out the package.

Automated handling with mobile robotics

Select from our mobile robots to make your application even more flexible.

You want to automate your handling tasks?

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Handling robots for industrial sectors with high requirements

The requirements in demanding industries, such as primary and secondary manufacturing are enormous. When it comes to handling, KUKA enables you to meet these requirements. We offer different robotics variants for sectors with high hygiene standards, such as the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries, as well as for sensitive, ultraclean production environments in the electronics industry and battery cell production. You can effortlessly use our robots for handling in strictly regulated production areas:

Portfolio for production areas with high requirements:

Hygienic Oil (HO) portfolio

Food-compatible lubricants in all axes
DIN ISO 14159 certification: Meets all hygiene requirements for the secondary sector
Simple detection of contamination due to the light color design
Ideal for packaging and palletizing

KUKA Hygienic Oil robots

Hygienic Machine (HM) portfolio

Robotics with hygienic design
Maximum hygiene standards for the strictly regulated hygiene environment in the primary sector
Simple cleaning due to the smooth and particularly resistant surface
Food-compatible lubricants in all axes

KUKA Hygienic Machine robots

Cleanroom portfolio (CR)

Robots, cobots and platforms with low particle emissions
Easy-to-clean special surfaces, special primers, seals and coatings
Safe handling of highly sensitive microelectronics such as wafers
Fraunhofer IPA cleanroom-certified according to DIN EN ISO 14644-14
ESD-capable and ESD-certified as standard

Cleanroom robot solutions for semiconductor production

Dry room solutions

Handling in very low air humidity or very low dew point
Smooth surface and internal connection technology
Tested in the dry room
Certified by Fraunhofer IPA
ESD-capable and ESD-certified as standard

KR AGILUS 2 for handling in the dry room

ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) portfolio

Protected against uncontrolled electrostatic charging or discharging
Safe handling of sensitive electronic components, e.g. printed circuit boards
Meets all requirements of the electronics industry
ESD-capable and ESD-certified as standard

ESD robots

Foundry robots

Heat, corrosion, alkali and acid resistant coatings
Foundry wrists of the robots with special coating for even greater heat resistance
Optimized for the harsh environment in the foundry and forging industry
Certified with protection rating IP67

Robots in the foundry

Expertise in every handling process

We offer a large variety of automation solutions for a wide range of different handling processes, which we can precisely tailor to your production. From bin picking and palletizing to transport:

Material transport

In a manufacturing process, it is important that products get from A to B smoothly, quickly and efficiently. From automated guided vehicles to mobile robots and navigation systems, we equip you with all the components you need for a smooth transport process.

Flexible, automated guided vehicle systems in a truck assembly plant intelligently network mobile units.

Bin picking

In bin picking, structured, semi-structured, or chaotically distributed objects are gripped and then set down at a desired drop-off point. For this purpose, the robot requires a precise vision system. KUKA offers a selection of reliable software options for object recognition, such as KUKA.SmartBinPicking. This guarantees smooth handling, for example of bulk materials of any kind – also in your production facility.

More about bin picking

Sophisticated path planning for collision-free 3D bin picking with the intelligent KUKA.SmartBinBicking software package avoids downtime.

Pick & place

In pick-and-place applications, components are picked up, positioned and placed. It is one of the most commonly used processes in manufacturing. With the intelligent KUKA.PickControl software package, which is specially tailored to picking and packing tasks, in combination with our wide range of robots, you can increase the possibilities of this application many times over.

Pick-and-place robots

Automated picking and packing of unsorted parts at multiple conveyor belts.

Palletizing

Automated palletizing involves the sorting of goods on a pallet, which is used, among other things, to simplify transport and to bundle groups of goods. KUKA offers various forms of palletizing: mono-palletizing, mixed palletizing, depalletizing and cold storage palletizing.

Our KUKA.PalletTech software package offers a cost-effective palletizing solution that focuses on mono-palletizing.

Learn more about palletizing

The compact palletizing robot easily handles napkin boxes and perfectly aligns them on the pallets in order to reduce manual handling.

Packaging

Packaging is the wrapping of a product to protect it from its environment. We offer several robots for this purpose. Our top models are the KR QUANTEC, which can be equipped with a bendable vacuum gripper for precise carton folding, and the LBR iiwa cobot, which is mainly used for folding and stapling corrugated blanks.

Origami with heavy-duty corrugated board: KUKA packaging robots fold corrugated sheets for the packaging industry.

Linking

In order to link work sequences efficiently between machines and systems, KUKA offers a comprehensive portfolio of linear robots and linear units. Automated linking between machine tools, further processing systems or injection molding machines ensures maximum flexibility in your production facility. Our automated guided vehicle systems complement the automation solution.

The KR 80L three-axis linear robot is ideal for linking work sequences, such as loading and unloading or palletizing.

Loading and unloading of machines

Machine tending is a monotonous and repetitive task that can be optimally automated using our robotic systems. Our robots can handle the loading and removal of parts in the machine, the handling of pallets with a zero clamping system, and the opening and closing of machine doors. This enables, among other things, the automated control of CNC machine tools. In robotic tool handling, tools can be changed directly on the machine or with the aid of an internal tool changer.

More about machine tending

KR 240 QUANTEC provides support during the automatic loading and unloading of the fully automated, modular production cell, in interaction with the KR 10 AGILUS.

Assembly

Industrial assembly is one of the core tasks in manufacturing and production. With our robotic systems, you can automate not only the handling of workpieces and quality assurance, but also handling tasks between assembly steps. Collaborative robots such as the LBR iisy and LBR iiwa cobots enable safe working without fences (Human-Robot Collaboration, HRC).

Wide range of assembly robots

Robotic assembly of battery packs in a flexible multi-product line in the automotive industry.

Software options for any handling task

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