As cars are evolving, so should the manufacturing processes, like car painting. Robots are taking over this task as well, making painting not only more sustainable and effective, but also cooler, ...

FRIEDBERG, Germany — Robotics specialist ABB said orders for its inkjet PixelPaint robot are likely to bring it to market soon. ABB first revealed the painting technology in 2020, saying it would cut ...

The process behind painting vehicles is often a laborious task consuming many hours, sometimes days, between coats with masking usually being involved for more complex designs. With this in mind, ...

Following a successful pilot program at its South Carolina plant, BMW will take its Physical AI robots to the Leipzig factory ...

FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2021 “Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation” (IERA) goes to PixelPaint technology of ABB. Two high-precision robots make car ...

To say that ABB Robotics’ PixelPaint technology works like an inkjet printer for a car is one way of describing the new technology, but it doesn’t quite do it justice. To show off just how wild the ...

We’re fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World’s Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th ...

Pindar Van Arman, a roboticist and artist, demonstrates the process of making robots paint on a canvas at his studio in Fort Worth. Pindar Van Arman is a roboticist and artist who’s known for making ...

Talk about technology’s encroachment into the creative industries is everywhere right now. But a year-long residency in robotic painting revealed to me just how inflated and imprecise the public ...

The importance of automotive robotics in the automobile industry has increased exponentially over recent decades, but the theme has always been significant. The term Fordism was coined in the 1930s to ...

For years, automation fears focused on factory jobs. Robots building cars became the symbol of machines replacing human labor. Now the conversation is shifting somewhere unexpected: office work. A ...