My team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore had the honor of receiving KUKA’s annual Innovation Award for our project CoSTAR, the Collaborative System for Task Automation and Recognition. Our system allows end users to teach robots complex and reusable skills.

Every year, manufacturing companies from all over the globe converge in Hannover, Germany to join the biggest industrial automation trade show in the world. The event – Hannover Messe – is a preview of the changing face of manufacturing, so it is no surprise that one of the biggest exhibitors is Augsburg-based KUKA Robotics.

For the last three years, KUKA has hosted an annual Innovation Award, and every year the response has grown. This year, 25 teams from all over the world proposed novel ways of using KUKA’s LBR iiwa robot in flexible manufacturing. From these applicants, KUKA chose the six finalists they thought were the most promising.

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