KUKA shows its ambitions by joining the Manufacturing Technology Centre

BLACK Country industrial robot supplier KUKA Robotics UK has signalled its ambitions to help develop innovative, new automated production processes for the high value manufacturing sector by becoming a new member of the Manufacturing Technology Centre at Coventry’s Ansty Park.

KUKA has supplied the centre with two of its high payload KR 240 robots for a variety of research projects. The centre is a unique collaboration between a group of leading universities and technology organisations in the UK.

The company will work alongside founder industrial members, which include Rolls-Royce and Airbus, in a bid to develop new technologies aimed at improving productivity and lowering costs.

Ian Walker, KUKA’s general sales manager, said: “The centre provides a unique environment and we fully support its objective of raising the UK’s competitive advantage through innovative research,”

KUKA is also lending its robotics expertise to another top research body as a member of the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC).

KUKA robots are being used to explore automated assembly solutions for the aerospace industry as part of a major research project at the Rotherham-based establishment.