Kuka Robotics announced Monday that an injection molding cell using one of its robots won the Gold award in its division and was named the "2007 Robot of the Year" at the National Robotics Challenge held March 9-10, 2007 in Marion, Ohio.
Designed, built, and programmed by the robotics team at Ohio Northern University, the cell featured the Kuka KR3 robot, which processed poker chips within the injection-molding cell. The robot is one of seven that Kuka Robotics recently announced it had provided to ONU's Robotics Technology Center of Excellence.
KUKA Robotics Corporation --located in Clinton Township-- was selected last month by Ohio Northern University to provide robotics for its newly remodeled and expanded robotics technology centerin order to provide students with hands on design and programming experience using KUKA robots, controllers and software.
More on Ohio Northern's technology programs can be found at www.onu.edu/a+s/techno.
Source: Kuka Robotics
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