Anyone who has ever painted a bedroom or a car knows that the most difficult and time-consuming part of the process is actually the prep work: repairing damage, sanding, cleaning and masking. Now, imagine if you had to paint a passenger jet.
Engineers at Aerobotix and FerRobotics imagined that scenario, too, and they’ve developed new end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) that enables a six-axis robot to precisely and automatically apply masking tape to aircraft assemblies and other large surfaces.