LUCIGNANO, ITALY — March 27, 2026 — Kinegge S.r.l. successfully hosted the Kinegge Innovation Day & Industrial Tour, a key event within the framework of the global ROBOTICS-2026 summit. It transformed the Kinegge Smart Factory into a dynamic platform for high-level dialogue focused on the critical intersection of advanced research and industrial application in robotics, AI, and hyperautomation
The day’s program included an intensive series of keynote speeches, panel discussions, and parallel roundtables aimed at generating practical solutions and strengthening collaboration between industry and the scientific community. Special attention was given to the role of science in driving innovation and accelerating the development of globally competitive high-tech products. Among the event’s guests were representatives from China, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Germany, Vietnam, Singapore, and the United States.
The conference opened with welcome remarks from Luca D’Innocenti, Kinegge representative, and a keynote by moderator Professor Laura Celentano, dedicated to the crucial topic of bridging the gap between academic research and industrial application. Regional representatives and industry association ConfIndustria also took part in the event.
One of the central elements of the program was the panel session, “Best Practices of Industry and Scientific Institutions Collaboration that Ensured the Creation and Successful Promotion of New High-Tech Competitive Products on Global Markets,” which brought together practical examples of successful cooperation between science and industry. Ing. Cappello from the Institute of BioRobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna delivered the keynote address for the session; Baker Hughes Nuovo Pignone presented its experience of transformation from the heritage of Nuovo Pignone to global energy technology leadership, highlighting how the company drives innovation and creates economic value in Italy; Kinegge experts shared two important industrial cases, with Natascha di Pietro speaking about ensuring serial production of competitive resistance actuators for spot welding guns in the automotive industry and securing leadership in supplies to Chinese automotive enterprises, and Andrea Pallecchi presenting the creation of new control units for power turbines with the involvement of Italian manufacturers of precision equipment; the session concluded with Cassioli S.r.l., which presented its work on the creation of unmanned automated process control systems.
The afternoon session was dedicated to three parallel roundtables examining specialized areas in greater detail:
A crucial part of the event was the industrial tour of Kinegge’s hyperautomated production facility, allowing participants to witness firsthand the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies and to explore the demo zone featuring equipment manufactured by Kinegge — from electromechanical drives for automotive welding, unique compact actuators for humanoid robots, and electromechanical drives for the energy sector to radiation-resistant TV systems for extreme conditions and robotic diagnostic equipment.
An important prelude to the March 27 program took place one day earlier, on March 26, 2026, during a specialized session of the main ROBOTICS-2026 conference, where Andrea Pallecchi, CEO of Kinegge S.r.l., delivered a presentation and led a workshop that attracted strong interest from the professional audience. Both sessions prompted lively discussion and a number of thoughtful questions, clearly showing that the topics raised by Kinegge resonated with researchers, engineers, and industrial decision-makers alike.
In his presentation, “Hyperautomation as a New Paradigm for Efficient Production of High-Tech Components for Industrial Automation,” Andrea Pallecchi focused on hyperautomation not simply as a technological trend, but as a new industrial logic that combines advanced engineering, digitalization, process integration, and production scalability. The presentation addressed how manufacturers can increase competitiveness by redesigning production systems around flexibility, precision, efficiency, and faster commercialization of complex high-tech products.
The workshop, “The Economics of Hyperautomation: Kinegge’s Approach to Scenario Planning and Mathematical Modeling,” expanded this discussion by moving from industrial strategy to practical decision-making tools. Participants were introduced to Kinegge’s methodology for identifying and evaluating hyperautomation scenarios through mathematical modeling, economic analysis, and applied case studies. The workshop also included an interactive business simulation in which participants examined real industrial situations and discussed how investment, technology choices, and production architecture affect long-term efficiency and market success.
Taken together, the presentation and workshop demonstrated that hyperautomation should be viewed not only as an engineering solution, but also as an economic and strategic framework for building sustainable industrial growth. Just as importantly, these sessions served as a kind of teaser for the Kinegge Innovation Day & Industrial Tour on March 27: what had been discussed in theory at the conference could then be seen in real life at the Kinegge plant, where guests had the opportunity to observe how these concepts are implemented in practice within an operating hyperautomated manufacturing environment.
The event concluded with a forward-looking discussion dedicated to the creation of new international partnerships for producing competitive high-tech products in Italy for global markets, including China. The Kinegge Innovation Day & Industrial Tour became not only a demonstration of technological achievements, but also a powerful catalyst for strengthening synergy between scientific research, advanced industry, and international cooperation.
