Robotics is moving beyond manufacturing plants and into the automotive repair environment.
A recent article in Collision Repair Mag looks at how an intelligent spray-painting robot is being introduced at a collision repair facility outside Montreal, using machine vision and AI to plan and apply paint.
Potential benefits for repair workshops
The technology is designed to improve consistency, reduce exposure to paint chemicals and potentially address some of the challenges associated with skilled refinishing labour.
It raises an interesting question for the South African market: how far away is this technology from our own workshops?
Read more: Innovating automotive painting with robots | Collision Repair Mag
