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🇨🇳 Shanghai needed land for underground development. Rather than demolish the warehouse complex sitting on it, engineers moved the entire thing... using 432 robots.
Engineering so good it looks like CGI. It isn't.
We discovered something mind-blowing about robotic shipbuilding.
Profiles (like the bulb flat pictured here in a grid pattern) are basically never straight when they arrive, requiring all manner of labor-intensive tricks to get good fit-up before welding - strongbacks, dogs, clamps…
But what if you could use robots to do this instead?
We had long theorized that this should be possible, but we just proved it - this in-progress panel was assembled using only the force of the robots to correct significant warping in the material.
It’s an open area of development for us, but by pre-scanning parts prior to assembly we should be able to automatically compensate for warping (within limits) to get picture-perfect robotic assembly every time.