Robotics at Fraunhofer IPA - industrial robots

Industrial robots are slowly moving away from traditional production applications into new application areas. Fraunhofer IPA is developing key technologies enhancing this transfer. Specifically, new user interfaces for quick and intuitive instruction of the robots and for direct human-robot-interaction (e.g. developments within the SMErobot project) as well as environment perception tools for enhanced flexibility (e.g. for bin picking) and new grippers and tools for specific applications have been developed. The developments of Fraunhofer IPA not only include the development of new technologies for industrial robots, they have also been transferred to completely new application areas.