United Robotics receives usage rights to laboratory robot Kevin
17.10.2023 - The United Robotics Group (URG) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA have signed a license agreement as part of their newly concluded technological partnership.
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From left to right: Andreas Traube, Head of the Laboratory Automation and Bioproduction Technology Department at Fraunhofer IPA, Prof. Thomas Bauernhansl, Institute Director at Fraunhofer IPA, Thomas Linkenheil, Co-CEO of URG, Sarah Ostertag, UX & Industrial Design Lead and Product Management at URG and Tobias Brode, Head of Business Development Lab Automation at URG. Image: Fraunhofer
The content of the agreement is the distribution and further development of the laboratory robot Kevin, which is produced and sold by URG. Kevin is an autonomous, mobile laboratory robot from Fraunhofer IPA. It can be integrated flexibly and intuitively into laboratory infrastructures and automates processes. The robot takes on repetitive routine tasks. It transports microtiter plates and so-called racks, racks for sample tubes, or consumables for refilling. He can also supply systems with pipette tips.
The laboratory robot Kevin was developed by the team from the Department of Laboratory Automation and Bioproduction Technology under Andreas Traube and brought to prototype maturity with the first test customers worldwide. Kevin will now go into series production under the URG umbrella. For this purpose, the company has acquired a corresponding license to use and further develop the robot's hardware and software.
Contact
Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA
Nobelstraße 12
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
+49 711 970-1800
