Siemens has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Italian robot manufacturer Comau and together they now offer the jointly engineered product Sinumerik Run MyRobot /DirectControl. This development enables the robot kinematics to be fully integrated into a CNC system. As a result, the Sinumerik CNC controls the articulated robot arm directly with the basis of complex algorithms without the need for a separate robot controller, as the operations are entirely controlled on a second channel of the CNC.