Welding robot by Joel Sullivan - video

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Hi Joel, Thanks for chiming in here with some details and the additional footage in use. All makes much more sense now! Nasty environment for a robot for sure and can imagine the heat being interesting challenges for the electronics and vision system for sure. When I first saw it the wheels didn't make sense and felt like they might be slip and slide power glides.

I get it about the screws being necessary expendables, again in that environment. I am curious what kind of dents and dings occur that would need filling and fixing and if the press is re-run after your welding and clean up? Years ago I did some of the design work on a 50t forge press for making jet engine impellers, interesting and challenging from a design/environment standpoint, and also several automated machines over the years, mostly PLC and HMI operated.

What you've done in your shop is pretty amazing for a specialty robot like this. Did you do all the code work also?

Thanks for sharing and look forward to seeing and hearing more.

PJ

P.S. I sub'd your YT channel.

They run rocks through, nuts, bolts, hammers, any tool really. Any time that happens it takes a big chunk out of the surface and that ruins the board. They have fairly long operating cycles and it can be the better part of a year before somebody can get in there and fix it. My robot can go in at any time.

I coded about 90% of it. My friend Neil coded the web interface in Python.

I have some small drilling robots and a scanning robot as well. There are a lot more coming including a cleaning robot and one for fire watch. Keep checking the Youtube channel for updates.

Edit: And yes, the press was up and running again right after the repair.