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KUKA KR C5

The KUKA KR C5 is a family of industrial robot controllers made by German manufacturer KUKA, introduced in 2020 as successor to the KR C4.

KUKA KR Fortec

The KUKA KR Fortec is a family of six-axis heavy-duty industrial robots made by KUKA of Augsburg, Germany, with payloads from 240 to 500 kg.

KUKA LBR iiwa

The KUKA LBR iiwa is a seven-axis collaborative industrial robot arm made by German manufacturer KUKA and introduced in 2013, with torque sensors in every joint that let it work alongside people without safety fencing.

KUKA youBot

The KUKA youBot is a mobile manipulator by KUKA Laboratories with a five-axis arm and two-finger gripper on an omnidirectional Mecanum-wheel platform for research and education.

Kukke Subramanya Temple

Kukke Subramanya Temple, also called Kukke Subrahmanya, is a Hindu temple in Subrahmanya village, Karnataka, India, dedicated to Subrahmanya as lord of all serpents and known for the Sarpa Samskara ritual.

Kukri (खुकुरी)

The kukri, also spelled khukuri, is the traditional heavy, single-edged knife of Nepal, a national symbol best known as the weapon of the Gurkha soldiers who have served Britain since 1816.

Kulasekarapatti launch site

The Kulasekarapatti launch site, formally the SSLV Launch Complex, is an ISRO spaceport under construction in Tamil Nadu, India, for polar launches of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle.

Kulda Coal Mine

Kulda Coal Mine is an operating opencast coal mine in the Ib Valley coalfield of Sundergarh district, Odisha, India, owned by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, a Coal India subsidiary.

Kumamoto Castle

Kumamoto Castle (熊本城) is a Japanese castle in Kumamoto City, Japan, completed in 1607 by the daimyo Kato Kiyomasa and regarded as one of the country's major early-modern fortresses.

Kumar Varoon Agrawal

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, also published as Kumar Agrawal, is a chemical engineer and membrane scientist who leads the Laboratory of Advanced Separations at EPFL, working on atomically thin porous membranes for carbon capture.

Kumbhalgarh

Kumbhalgarh, also known as Kumbhalgarh Fort, is a 15th-century hill fort in Rajasthan, India, built by the Mewar ruler Rana Kumbha between 1443 and 1458.

Kumho Petrochemical

Kumho Petrochemical (금호석유화학) is a South Korean petrochemical company headquartered in Seoul. Founded in 1970, it is among the world's largest synthetic rubber producers, with about 900,000 tons of annual capacity.

Kumho Tire (금호타이어)

Kumho Tire (금호타이어) is a South Korean tire manufacturer headquartered in Gwangju, founded in 1960 and among the world's top ten tire makers since 1992.

Kumkol North Oil and Gas Field

Kumkol North is the northern operating area of the Kumkol oil field in Kazakhstan's South Turgai basin, licensed separately since 1995 and operated by the joint venture Turgai Petroleum.

Kumkol-Karakoin Oil Pipeline

The Kumkol-Karakoin Oil Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline in Kazakhstan running from the Kumkol oil field to Karakoin, where it links to pipelines toward Russia and China.

Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, formerly Kumsusan Memorial Palace and Kim Il Sung Mausoleum, is a Pyongyang mausoleum holding the preserved bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Kumul Petroleum

Kumul Petroleum is the wholly state-owned national petroleum company of Papua New Guinea, holding a 16.57 percent stake in the PNG LNG Project and paying the State over $1.9 billion since 2014.

Kun Fu

Kun (Kelvin) Fu is a mechanical engineer at the University of Delaware who directs the Composite & Additive Manufacturing Laboratory and works on 3D printing composites and battery materials.

Kun Zhou

Kun Zhou is a Singapore-based mechanical engineer and professor at Nanyang Technological University known for combining mechanics of materials with 3D printing of high-performance metal alloys.

Kunihiko Fukushima

Kunihiko Fukushima (福島邦彦), born 1936, is a Japanese computer scientist who invented the neocognitron, a hierarchical neural network announced in 1979, recognized as the origin of deep convolutional neural networks.

Kunlun Tech

Kunlun Tech, also known as Kunlun Wanwei, is a Chinese internet company listed in Shenzhen in 2015 that pivoted from games and Opera to the Tiangong (Skywork) large language models.

Kunming Changshui International Airport

Kunming Changshui International Airport (昆明长水国际机场, IATA: KMG) is the main airport serving Kunming, capital of Yunnan in southwest China. Opened in 2012, it replaced Wujiaba and handled a record 49.69 million passengers in 2025.

KunMo Chung (정건모)

KunMo Chung (정건모), also written Chung Kun-Mo, is a South Korean nuclear energy engineer, born 1939, who wrote KAIST's founding proposal and twice served as Minister of Science and Technology.

Kunpeng 920

Kunpeng 920 (鲲鹏920) is a 64-bit Arm-based server processor developed by Huawei's HiSilicon division and launched in January 2019 with TaiShan servers, using Huawei's custom TaiShan cores.

Kunsan Air Base

Kunsan Air Base is a United States Air Force installation on South Korea's west coast, home of the 8th Fighter Wing, the "Wolf Pack," flying F-16s.

Kuntian New Energy

Kuntian New Energy is a Chinese maker of artificial graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries, founded in 2018 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, with customers including CATL and BYD.

Kuo Kuang power plant

Kuo Kuang power plant (国光火力发电厂) is a 480 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, in commercial operation since 2003.

Kuosheng nuclear power plant

Kuosheng nuclear power plant (核二厂), formally the Second Nuclear Power Plant, is a decommissioned two-unit station on Taiwan's northern coast whose reactors ran from 1981 and 1983.

Kupal Oil Field

Kupal (کوپال) is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, about 60 km east of Ahvaz, discovered in 1965 and producing since 1971.

Kuparuk Oil Pipeline

The Kuparuk Oil Pipeline is an above-ground crude oil pipeline on Alaska's North Slope, carrying processed crude from the Kuparuk River field to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at Prudhoe Bay.