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    A conversation with robot royalty Joe Gemma

    April 28, 2025
    Industry veteran Joe Gemma was the recipient of the 2024 Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership, accepting it on behalf of all the people he’s worked with along the way

    This week’s guest on Control Intelligence is robot royalty. Joe Gemma was the 2024 winner of the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership, but that was just a touchstone along a career that continues to move robotics and automation forward.

    Gemma serves on the board of directors for the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), which hosts the annual Automate Show, this year taking place in Detroit the week of May 12. He’s also past president and board member of the International Federation of Robotics. He’s been the CEO of KUKA Robotics Americas and CEO of Staubli North America, and this month he was named CEO of Wauseon Machine, which specializes in automation, endforming equipment and precision machining, where he’s been since 2022.

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