Kuka robots in 100 Masterpieces anniversary exhibition at the BMW museum
A KUKA KR AGILUS and an LBR iiwa make an appearance at the BMW Museum in the “New Forms of Work” section. A KR AGILUS and an LBR iiwa can be found in the BMW Museum under “New Forms of Work: BMW Employees from 1980 – Today” and are part of the “100 Masterpieces – 100 Years of Innovation and Enterprise” anniversary exhibition of the BMW Group.
In 2016, the Munich automotive manufacturer BMW is celebrating 100 years since its founding. The BMW Museum makes this past century come alive with the “100 Masterpieces – 100 Years of Innovation and Enterprise” exhibition. Along for the ride as exhibit pieces in the “New Forms of Work: BMW Employees from 1980 – Today” area are a KUKA KG AGILUS small robot and a sensitive LBR iiwa Robot.
The thematic text explains to the visitor how BMW is leveraging the increasing digitization that will change our lives and work environments in order to ease the load on employees in the production workforce, increase the efficiency of processes and improve quality. For the BMW Group, Industrie 4.0 means optimally supporting humans as the designers of production. In this way, intelligent human-robot systems can noticeably improve ergonomically unfavorable processes. Since 2013, collaborative robots have been easing the load of BMW employees on the assembly line and ensuring top manufacturing quality. In door assembly, humans and robots work side by side as a team – with no safety fence. Unlike the large robots for the vehicle body and for painting, which work behind barriers, lightweight robots such as the LBR iiwa do not require any boundaries.
The BMW Museum thanked KUKA for the loan of two robots and for the opportunity to be able to depict the “New Forms of Work” with two robot generations in the anniversary exhibition. “100 Masterpieces” can be visited Tuesday through Sunday (including holidays) from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the BMW Museum until the end of September 2017. Entry costs 10 euro.
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