Meet the finalists and winner of the KUKA Innovation Award 2023 Open Platform Challenge

For the first time the KUKA Innovation Award is based on our newly introduced iiQKA robot operating system and the iiQKA ecosystem. This enables the finalists to implement their own hardware and software extensions on a KUKA robot much easier than before, making a modern, powerful and scalable basis for technology innovation within robotics available. In the same spirit we defined the motto for this year’s award: The Open Platform challenge. Applicants were asked to use the availability of open interfaces in iiQKA and to extend the robot system by their own hardware and software components in order to deal with typical tasks in production much faster and easier. Team SPIRIT from the German Aerospace Center Germany is working on the automation of maintenance and inspection tasks in the oil and gas industry. Team Fashion & Robotics of the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz in Austria is 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 systems. Team JARVIS from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy is developing a complete plug-and-play method for programming collaborative robotic applications (e.g. assembly and packaging) that is fully integrated into the iiQKA ecosystem. Read more about the KUKA Innovation Award: Learn more about the operating system : Explore the KUKA Ecosystem: