IGZ wins German Innovation Award in Gold

The prize, awarded by the renowned "Rat für Formgebung" (German Design Council), was presented virtually for a change. In Falkenberg in northern Bavaria, Johann Zrenner, IGZ co-founder and Managing Director of Innovation and Technology, and his highly qualified team of developers were delighted to be awarded first place in the category "Excellence in Business to Business - Logistics & Infrastructure": "The jury's verdict not only confirms LUKE2's innovative strength in the field of fully automated small parts picking, but also that of IGZ as a technology leader and general contractor for SAP logistics projects. For a long time now, we have been focusing on mechanically simple and retrofittable solutions that can be put into production within a very short time. In our opinion, the future belongs to them. We are therefore very pleased that the Gold Award confirms the market-changing potential of our complete mobile robotics solution LUKE2."

With its fully automatic tool changer and the intelligent ability to act reliably and safely outside permanently installed cells in a self-learning manner, the multi-patented mobile picking robot LUKE2 represents a world first. It can be very easily integrated into existing systems and takes over picking tasks independently, either in addition to humans or on its own - and at the same workstation as the picker himself. LUKE2 is ready for use in no time at all. It is simply pushed to the respective order-picking workstation, locked in place and connected with just one cable. A central data and power supply, sensors, suction tools, light sources and an AI-supported image processing system are integrated. In addition, a height adjustment allows the most diverse workstation topologies to be reproduced at normally manually operated goods-to-person order-picking workstations.