The award ceremony of the KUKA Innovation Award 2023 will take place on June 29, 11 a.m., Hall A4 at the KUKA booth. For the first time, the KUKA Innovation Award is based on iiQKA.OS, KUKA's intuitive operating system.

Meet our finalists:

• The team from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center is working on the automation of maintenance and inspection tasks in the oil and gas industry.
• The “Creative Robotics” and “Fashion and Technology” departments at the University of Art and Design Linz are working on creating a way for small and medium-sized textile companies and designers to increase their production by setting up microfactories with collaborative robot system
• The goal of the finalists of the Merlin Laboratory of the Italian Politecnico di Milano is to develop a complete plug-and-play method for programming collaborative robotic applications (e.g. assembly and packaging) that is fully integrated into the iiQKA ecosystem.