KUKA SE & Co. KGaA is an automation company headquartered in Augsburg, Germany, and operating internationally. Founded in Augsburg in 1898 by Johann Josef Keller and Jakob Knappich, the company developed from welding and industrial equipment into a supplier of robotics and production automation.
KUKA provides industrial and collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, robot controllers, production machines, turnkey production systems, engineering and simulation software, and lifecycle services such as maintenance, spare parts, training, and industrial cybersecurity. Its customers operate in automotive, electronics, metal processing, logistics, consumer goods, healthcare, and aerospace manufacturing. KUKA is part of Midea Group.
KUKA Upgrade & Refurbish Services is KUKA's lifecycle service for refurbishing, retrofitting and modernizing installed KUKA robots and production cells.