Maintaining, cleaning, painting or decontaminating equipment or structures at height is always problematic in an industrial context. The typical solution usually involves scaffolding or maybe self-climbing platform.

Whatever the case, in a nuclear environment, it also means every piece of that scaffolding jigsaw need to be set up, used, dissembled and monitored to ensure it leaves the site. Operating at heights is time consuming and expensive.

In an industrial environment, there are many applications where human operators might be in a risky situation, have trouble reaching where they need to work or have limited time to complete a task…

Either for painting, cleaning or decontaminating, the safety risks inherent to operating at heights scenarios are cumulated to the other risks carried by the products used. 

Understandably, the health and safety of technicians doing this kind of job is a top priority. It is therefore natural to consider using robots to apply coatings, pressure wash, apply decontaminant… It will be faster, cheaper and above all safer. 

But is it that easy to have robotic platforms apply products of various viscosity, autonomously and to the right thickness?

We think we might be onto something here as the solution we have found out about ticks a lot of boxes.