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KMR iiwa

About

About KMR iiwa

KMR iiwa combines a KUKA LBR iiwa collaborative arm with an autonomous omnidirectional mobile platform. Laser scanners support navigation and obstacle response, while Mecanum wheels permit lateral movement and rotation in confined production areas. Seven joint-torque sensors provide contact sensitivity for mobile handling and machine-tending configurations.

The LBR iiwa 7 R800 configuration pairs a 7 kg arm payload with 800 mm reach; the 14 R820 pairs 14 kg with 820 mm. The platform carries 170 kg with the arm and travels at up to 3.6 km/h, with positioning accuracy stated to ±5 mm. Tooling, localization infrastructure, process safety and the selected arm must be resolved for each cell.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: University of Liverpool self-driving laboratory
  • Robotic inspection

    Research demonstration - 2025-11-28 - Inspect laboratory object placement using the LIRA vision module and configured cameras. - environment: University of Liverpool self-driving laboratory

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Observed use

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

  • Jetson AGX Orin 64GB

    Research Experiment - Connected - Physical - In the LIRA laboratory study, KMR iiwa connected over LAN to a Jetson AGX Orin 64GB running vision and reasoning software, with a RealSense D435i camera.

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Research

  • Localization, inspection, and reasoning (LIRA) module for autonomous workflows in self-driving laboratories

    2025-11-28 - Research Publication - University of Liverpool researchers test an edge-computing vision module on a KUKA KMR iiwa in laboratory workflows. Fiducial localisation and vision-language inspection help identify placement errors at instruments and sample racks; the reported proof of concept is not a fully autonomous experimental cycle.

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  • A quantitative investigation for deployment of mobile collaborative robots in high-value manufacturing

    2024-06-10 - Research Publication - An external experimental study measures KMR iiwa platform positioning and repeatability across feature-mapping settings, travel speeds and translation directions. The test protocol examines mobile positioning for precision manufacturing and inspection.

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Resources

Curated durable documents and official technical references.

Context

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