KUKA Robotics, a German manufacturer of industrial robots, is a leading supplier of automation to the automotive industry, aerospace, and general manufacturing.

Follow along as Kuka’s Ed Volcic dissects the various components of a typical machine tool tending cell.

Provided you calibrate your force sensors correctly the task is fairly simple. Making a robot that knows what it is picking up is another thing all together.

Denise Stafford is business development manager at Kuka Robotics. This article appeared in Control Design, an affiliate publication to Machine Design.

KUKA will display some of its collaborative robot capabilities with experts on hand at Automate from April 8-11.

Tweet this While at the event, KUKA will be demonstrating its LBR iiwa – the world’s first human-robot-collaboration-compatible robot – at booth #528.