Kuka Robotics technology: Going beyond AGVs

Read more about this technology at https://www.therobotreport.com/agv-de... • Kuka AG takes autonomous vehicle design a step further with its KUKA.NavigationSolution — an autonomous navigation system for AGVs that uses software, laser scanners, and wheel sensors to map facility environments with what’s called simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Such functionality takes their vehicles’ capabilities to beyond what most of industry defines as AGV operation and into fully autonomous-vehicle territory.