KUKA
Industrial robot manufacturer · Germany
German automation company whose orange robot arms are a fixture of automotive body shops. Founded in Augsburg in 1898 and owned by China's Midea Group since 2017, KUKA makes the KR range of industrial robots, the LBR iiwa and LBR iisy sensitive cobots, and mobile platforms.
KUKA is a Germany-based industrial robot, collaborative robot and autonomous mobile robot maker, founded in 1898 and headquartered in Augsburg. It is owned by Midea Group (since 2017). Product lines include KR QUANTEC, KR AGILUS, LBR iiwa, LBR iisy. It appears in the directory's Industrial Robot Manufacturers (20 companies), Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Manufacturers (23 companies), Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Companies (32 companies) and German Robot Manufacturers (5 companies) lists.
- Headquarters
- Augsburg, Germany
- Founded
- 1898
- Ownership
- Midea Group (since 2017)
- Robot types
- Industrial robots, Cobots, Autonomous mobile robots
Products
- KR QUANTEC
- KR AGILUS
- LBR iiwa
- LBR iisy
- KMR mobile platforms
Robot reference
- LBR iiwa (Intelligent Assistant) — Manipulator
KUKA coverage
- NVIDIA GR00T N2 Preview at GTC 2026 Advances Physical AI — NVIDIA previewed GR00T N2 at GTC 2026, claiming more than double the success rate on novel tasks compared to prior VLA models. The announcement included Cosmos
KUKA repair and service
KUKA robot repair & service — 14 independent US providers in the ZeroGantry repair directory.
Directory categories
- Industrial Robot Manufacturers — 20 companies
- Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Manufacturers — 23 companies
- Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Companies — 32 companies
- German Robot Manufacturers — 5 companies
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- DENSO Wave — Japan · founded 2001 — Robotics and automatic-identification subsidiary of automotive supplier DENSO.
- FANUC — Japan · founded 1972 — One of the world's largest industrial robot makers, with a very large installed base of arms in automotive, electronics and general industry.
- Hanwha Robotics — South Korea · founded 2017 — Collaborative robot arm of South Korea's Hanwha Group, which introduced the country's first cobots in 2017 and was carved out as a standalone company in 2023.