KUKA AG

Some of those M&A cases in hindsight were strategically catastrophic for Europe.

Think Germany's cutting edge robotics maker KUKA, which got bought up and is now by some reporting 90% localized in China.

I think Nexperia, this Dutch semiconductor firm, which ended up being a choke point.

But that era is clearly over.

He can do both jobs.

And you don't have to consider if the person has a KUKA experience or a Yaskawa experience, for example.

Exactly.

And that is a problem because mostly your robot engineers only can support one or two or maybe three different robot brands.

Now, okay, I think that's already giving the answer to the question I have had.

It's like, how does MHS work? How does MHS make these hardware or implement these hardware standards, so to say? Yeah, so...

would typically MHS, so we have 10 robots, industrial robots, we start with them standing in front of us, and what would MHS do? MHS would go to brand number one, let's say it's a KUKA, and what would MHS do? Would maybe read all exactly these manuals, as an example, And then decide, okay, I've read everything.

I know everything about how to communicate with the KUKA.

But what we faced It's a reality.

Basically, those robotic companies, such as ADB, KUKA, like CENERG, they spent decades building robots for a reason, right? We found that it is easy to build a prototype.

It is also hard to actually build a reliable robotic product.

It is significantly harder than probably anyone would imagine.

And when we are choosing the hardware, what the customer actually wants is something reliable, something that doesn't require a lot of maintenance, and something that could get the best output in a set period of time.

And almost all the time, robotic arm would win.

When I talk about how ABB, KUKA, those traditional robot arm makers, they are very reliable.

Their products are really precise.

And then obviously there will be prizes.

So we're doing this in conjunction with KUKA.

KUKA have offered the winning team a training day at their facility, which would be amazing.

And I know that we are getting some other prizes in as well for some of the other teams.

So what else are you looking for? What other support do you need?

And ANVA has the gateway to sort that.

Do it.

Also, big up KUKA, big up my competition 19 group for letting you do it at Smart Manufacturing.

Because this is really, really quick.

And if you think this is quick, Fortescue is using KUKA welding robots to handle six megawatt charging cables.

That is fully six megawatts.

thousand kilowatts of charging.

German industries in particular depend on rare earths and industrial robot imports from China.

In 2016, Chinese investors purchased 95% of publicly listed KUKA, Germany's global leader in industrial robotics.

Now Germany is dependent on China for exactly this.

On May 29th, European commissioners will hold an orientation debate on tools to protect the EU's market from China.