Thank you for joining us at the KUKA youBot rollout party during IROS 2012 in Vilamoura. The party took place on Oct. 9 at 19:30 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Vilamoura in room Sotavento.Read More

The fifth BRICS research camp took place from Oct. 29th to Nov. 2nd in Motril, Spain. Under the topic "Mobile Manipulation - All in!" the integration of functionalities into a complete mobile manipulation application was elaborated. The transition from classical "sense-plan-act" paradigms to continuously integrated control and perception framed the scientific focus of this camp.Read More

Winner will receive up to 1.500 EUR.Read More

KUKA announces a new 20.000 EUR scientific award: The KUKA Innovation in Mobile Manipulation AwardRead More

At Hannover Fair 2013, April 8 -12 2013, Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH, KUKA's biggest shareholder, presented an impressive piece of new hardware: Grenzebach Flightsim.Read More

The KUKA youBot with THK hand at the ICRA 2013 and the Hannover trade fair received positive feedback from the research and development community.Read More

The first hackathon organized through the "Fun in Mobile Manipulation" project at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche in Spain, turned out to be a success.Read More

The second RoboCup@Work world championship just took place during RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Team Swarmlab@Work from University Masstricht won the competition.Read More

Research labs interested in organizing a hackathon using a KUKA youBot should contact: hackathon@youBot-Store.comRead More

The White House website presented a robotics experts video conference that featured a demonstration of an automated multi-robot furniture assembly by two KUKA youBots.Read More

Over the next months we will gradually equip the KUKA youBot with so-called mini-tools (millers, drillers, saws, grinders, airbrush guns).Read More

Researchers at the MIT are teaching robots to politely reach out to humans for assistance.Read More

youBot Store is collecting links to publications and videos featuring the youBot. Everyone working with a youBot is welcome to contribute their material.Read More

WIRED 2013 was a great opportunity to collect the latest news on research and education, to exchange opinions on future developments and to enable people to physically experience innovation, first hand.Read More

The youBot Store projects site offers a brief overview of projects including subjects all around mobile manipulation and the KUKA youBot.Read More

The German space agency DLR and the German Ministry of Economics and Technology organized a pioneer event for national robotics researchers and developers, the SpaceBot Cup. 10 teams worked on developing robotic systems to participate in the event that was set up as a competition.Read More

It is small, fun, versatile and has been made for the inventors of the future: The KUKA youBot is a powerful, educational robot that has been especially designed for research and education in mobile manipulation, which counts as a key technology for professional service robotics.Read More

RoCKIN Camp 2014 is the second educational workshop in the EU-funded initiative RoCKIn and took place at Sapienza University in Rome.Read More

RoboCup@Work is growing with new teams joining the upcoming competitions at GermanOpen in April 2014 and the RoboCup 2014 world championships in Brazil. Previous teams, including the last world champion, have publicly released their source code used during competition so every youBot developer can take it up for his own developments. New teams that may be interested can still qualify for the contest in Brazil. Don't miss these opportunities to see mobile manipulation with KUKA youBots in action!Read More

The University of Zurich just released their monocular pose estimation system as open-source ROS package. Infrared LEDs are used to estimate the relative pose of two robots. The system therefore is highly accurate, efficient and robust.Read More

Save the date 26. - 28. 05. 14 and visit us!Read More

Meet the finalists of the KUKA INNOVATION AWARD...Read More

Automated youBot commissioning service attraction at Audi family day.Read More

Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Univ. of Applied Sciences has designed a new compliant two-finger gripper for the KUKA youBot based on FESTO's flexible bionic fingers.Read More

Given the great interest and very positive response the initiative is continued until the end of 2014 and possibly beyond.Read More