Robotic painting of a bicycle frame
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Robotic painting of a bicycle frame
Last week I was invited back to an open house at the robotics firm that I retired from 11 years ago. One demo that caught my eye was of one of our paint robots simulating painting a bicycle frame.
I worked almost exclusively on auto-related products (and they are still the leader in automotive welding and painting in North America at least), but they have branched out into a lot of other industries. Maybe having Trek as a customer is why I noticed the beautiful clearcoated metallic gray paint job on my wife's Verve+ eBike that she got this year!
Hmm... Wonder if some of my software is still humming away in those controllers?
I worked almost exclusively on auto-related products (and they are still the leader in automotive welding and painting in North America at least), but they have branched out into a lot of other industries. Maybe having Trek as a customer is why I noticed the beautiful clearcoated metallic gray paint job on my wife's Verve+ eBike that she got this year!
Hmm... Wonder if some of my software is still humming away in those controllers?
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I guess programming the robots to hum is good for moral.
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I have to imagine that the controller computers are shielded and away from the robot in the real world to protect them from paint blowback.
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Neat video, although I'd like to see it also applying stencils and airbrushing accents.
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When I've painted frames, I've usually done the rear triangle first before moving to the main triangle - pretty much back to front. The motion used by the robot looks like a much better sequence to use, though it would be tough to match that speed. Perhaps if I had an assistant rotating the frame.
Thanks for posting.
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Toured Ford's Rouge factory this past summer. The robots were working at a furious pace and - I guess thanks to the security goons - I couldn't even get them to look up from their work, much less take a robot union pamphlet.
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To quote Arthur C. Clarke, "Humans are an inevitable development in the evolution of the computer".
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Was the clear coat going on? I didn't see anything change color, and the TREK didn't get painted over.
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Last week I was invited back to an open house at the robotics firm that I retired from 11 years ago. One demo that caught my eye was of one of our paint robots simulating painting a bicycle frame.
Painting a bike frame
I worked almost exclusively on auto-related products (and they are still the leader in automotive welding and painting in North America at least), but they have branched out into a lot of other industries. Maybe having Trek as a customer is why I noticed the beautiful clearcoated metallic gray paint job on my wife's Verve+ eBike that she got this year!
Hmm... Wonder if some of my software is still humming away in those controllers?
Painting a bike frame
I worked almost exclusively on auto-related products (and they are still the leader in automotive welding and painting in North America at least), but they have branched out into a lot of other industries. Maybe having Trek as a customer is why I noticed the beautiful clearcoated metallic gray paint job on my wife's Verve+ eBike that she got this year!
Hmm... Wonder if some of my software is still humming away in those controllers?
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