KUKA Welding Robots: A History

The sto­ry of KUKA weld­ing robots does not start with the devel­op­ment of indus­tri­al robot­ics. Instead, this sto­ry starts back in the 1800s, when weld­ing was man­u­al­ly applied.

Back in 1898, the only KUKA welders avail­able were man­u­al weld­ing appa­ra­tus­es. Hans Keller and Jakob Knap­pich found­ed KUKA engi­neer­ing works in Augs­burg, Ger­many in 1898. A KUKA welder back then didn’t look like much more than a met­al bar­rel with hoses and pip­ing. It would take over 50 years and a takeover before KUKA weld­ing would take a major step forward.

After the Quandt group took hold of KUKA in 1950, the com­pa­ny devel­oped KUKA’s first mul­ti-weld­ing sys­tem for Volk­swa­gen. This move is what laid the first bricks for KUKA’s path as a leader in the weld­ing indus­try today.

A decade lat­er, KUKA pro­duced the first fric­tion weld­ing machine, and in 1971, KUKA weld­ing hit a new lev­el when the com­pa­ny intro­duced the first weld­ing sys­tem that incor­po­rat­ed indus­tri­al robots – though KUKA did not make the robots at the time.

Once the pro­duc­tion of KUKA weld­ing robots start­ed in 1973, the com­pa­ny gave the world the first six-axis robot. They also pre­sent­ed even more weld­ing appli­ca­tions and pos­si­bil­i­ties for man­u­fac­tur­ers. From that time for­ward, KUKA has con­tin­ued to inno­vate and soar high in the weld­ing industry.

KUKA weld­ing robots are top of the line and con­stant­ly improv­ing. KUKA weld­ing is used by sev­er­al indus­tries today, includ­ing the auto­mo­tive, aero­space, jew­el­ry, fur­ni­ture, con­sumer goods and bev­er­age industries.

Robots​.com, a cer­ti­fied inte­gra­tor for KUKA robot­ics, has sev­er­al dif­fer­ent KUKA weld­ing robot­ic mod­els avail­able for pur­chase. Robots​.com takes KUKA weld­ing robots and cus­tomizes them to the customer’s spec­i­fi­ca­tions, match­ing the robot with a weld­ing pack­age and safe­ty package.

If you are inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about automat­ing your cur­rent weld­ing sys­tem with KUKA weld­ing, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.