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You've done the research on robotic painting. You've found a cobot that fits your budget. And then you discover that you can't legally or safely put it in your paint booth, because your standard cobot isn't rated for a solvent environment. This is one of the most common and most frustrating stumbling blocks for component manufacturers trying to automate their finishing process. Explosion-proof certification isn't a technicality you can work around. It's a hard requirement fo

You already have a cobot, or you're about to buy one. Now you want to put it to work in your paint booth. The question is whether a finishing kit starting at $9,999 can actually deliver professional, consistent coating results on real production parts. The AutoCoat System from Blue Sky Robotics is exactly that: a kit you add to your existing robotic arm to give it spray finishing capability. It's not a turnkey robot. It doesn't include a cobot. What it does is take the arm

When most people picture a paint robot in the automotive industry, they imagine a cathedral-sized booth at a Volkswagen plant, a row of explosion-proof arms swinging in choreographed arcs over a conveyor of car bodies, and a price tag somewhere north of $150,000. That image is real. But it's only half the story, and it's the half that doesn't apply to most manufacturers. The other half is a bracket fabricator spraying 400 parts per shift with two employees and a respirator.