German company KUKA has been chosen by China-based GAC Group to supply about 430 industrial robots to manufacture electric vehicles. The deal is said to be in the "high double-digit million-euro range". According to a report from Reuters, China will also invest €100 million ($125 million) into developing its own robot manufacturing industry.
German company KUKA has been chosen by China-based GAC Group to supply about 430 industrial robots to manufacture electric vehicles. The deal is said to be in the "high double-digit million-euro range". As well as delivering KR QUANTEC and KR FORTEC series machines, KUKA's proprietary, cloud-based platform KUKA Connect, will also be deployed, enabling GAC to monitor and analyse the robots' data.