I come throughout “neat methods” carried out by industrial robots on a regular basis, and plenty of of them are about as fascinating as watching paint dry. ABB Robotics’ latest trick is actually that, and by some means it’s mesmerizing past phrases. The business large launched a video of its robotic portray an artwork automobile. It’s a flex for the precision and adaptability of its robotics merchandise, after all, however simply have a look at it, it’s extraordinary.
For this PR stunt, the corporate collaborated with eight-year-old Indian baby prodigy Advait Kolarkar and Dubai-based digital design collective Illusorr, to create the world’s first robot-painted artwork automobile. The challenge is displaying off the corporate’s PixelPaint know-how, which is mainly an inkjet printer with 1,000 nozzles mounted on an industrial robotic.
There’s loads of marketing-speak mumbo jumbo connected with this, and I may write about it, however I’m simply not gonna. As an alternative, watch this mini documentary the corporate produced. It’s three minutes effectively spent.
ABB’s final pitch is for PixelPaint to make manufacturing extra sustainable, eradicating the necessity for masking supplies and additional air flow, which in flip, the corporate suggests, lowers emissions whereas saving water and power. The paint head tracks very intently to the car, making certain that each one the paint goes on the precise automobile, relatively than spraying in all places. Completely different paint colours are utilized rapidly, and the merchandise being painted solely runs by the paint store as soon as. ABB claims that this may halve the manufacturing time and scale back prices by as much as 60%.
