Audi banks on human-robot without protective fence

Posted on 24 Aug 2017 by Jonny Williamson

German car maker Audi is using for the first time a human-robot cooperation in its main plant in Ingolstadt for applying adhesive in final assembly.

Human-robot cooperation: KLARA facilitates greater diversity of versions in production at Audi – image courtesy of Audi The new human-robot colleague in the assembly of Audi A4 and A5 models has been applied in the main factory in Bavarian Ingolstadt, where people and robots now work side by side without a…

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