Kassow Robots expands its R&D team

Lasse Kieffer and Peter Nadolny Madsen start as Advisors at the Copenhagen-based cobot manufacturer. Kassow Robots ApS., the manufacturer of highly efficient 7-axis cobots, is expanding its R&D team. Lasse Kieffer and Peter Nadolny Madsen, both well-known in the cobot industry, join Kassow Robots as advisors to complement the engineering team from Kastrup, Copenhagen. As advisors to Kassow Robots, they bring with them in-depth robotics expertise in the areas of electronics, firmware, robotics applications and ISO standards.

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Kristian Kassow was in 2007, as the company’s CEO at Universal Robots at that time, able to
win Lasse Kieffer over to his former company. There, they enjoyed a trusting working
relationship in developing the first cobots. After leaving Universal Robots, Lasse Kieffer and
Peter Nadolny Madsen founded Purple Robotics, where they invented the world’s first dual
vacuum gripper and created a global sales network within a single year. In 2018, they sold
and merged their company into OnRobot to join forces.

“I’m extremely excited to be working with Lasse Kieffer and Peter Nadolny Madsen. They are
both real brains when it comes to electronics topics and safety standards for cobots. What’s
more, we have known and appreciated each other for many years, certainly also because we
share the entrepreneurial gene,” says Kristian Kassow, founder and CEO of Kassow Robots.
Lasse Kieffer is looking forward to tackling his new task: “It’s impressive how Kristian Kassow
has managed to combine user-friendliness and flexibility in his 7-axis cobots. User
friendliness is always right at the top of my list and Kassow Robots’ exciting package fits that
bill perfectly especially since they meet a wide range of customer needs with their five cobot
models.”
Dieter Pletscher, Sales Manager at Kassow Robots, is also excited about the new colleagues,
whom he also knows from previous cooperation: “We are now in our third year since we first
presented ourselves to the public at Automatica 2018 in Munich. It’s the perfect time for
Kassow Robots to move forward with our development efforts.” Pletscher is referring to the
fact that Kassow Robots has consistently worked through its roadmap. In 2020, the fifth 7-axis
cobot model was presented in the form of the KR1018 with a payload of 18 kilograms. In
addition, the 7-axis cobots are now increasingly in demand in the industry.