Shenzhen-listed Midea wants to lift its stake in Kuka to at least 30% from the current 13.5%, for a price that would value the German high-end robotics maker’s shares at $5.2 billion.

Kuka AG, the German robot maker acquired last year by Midea Group Co. of China, needs to lower costs and win government recognition as a local brand to achieve its goal of becoming the No. 1 ...

Kuka Robotics is the market leader in Germany and Europe, and No. 3 in the world. The Kuka Robot Group employs about 2,100 people worldwide. In 2010, sales of the Robot Group totaled 435.7 million ...

The new 20,000 square-meter (215,300 sq ft) operation will produce Kuka's KR Quantec series of robots and its KRC4 universal controller. The robot that Boll will face is a Kuka KR Agilus.

German industrial robot maker Kuka on Saturday said it was planning to replace its CEO Till Reuter. In a statement, the DAX-listed company said the head of the supervisory board and Reuter "are ...

When robot maker Kuka announced that it would be pitting its Agilus robot against table tennis star Timo Boll last month, we expected a fair fight. Conditioned professional human athlete against a ...

Each of Yuengling’s two keg lines utilizes a pair of KUKA robot arms that are identical in size, reach and payload to perform depalletization and palletization of the company’s lager ...

According to robot supplier KUKA Robotics, determining the value of a robot depends most heavily on total cost of ownership. In KUKA Robotics’ machining operations department, the company manufactures ...

Medical robot applications that require a high payload capacity delivered very precisely rely on KUKA’s KR relocate the patient. The ARTIS pheno is used in operating rooms around the world for ...

June 13, 2007 German industrial robot manufacturer KUKA Robotics has created the world’s largest and strongest robot. The KUKA KR 1000 titan 6-axis robot has a total of nine motors, which ...