Boeing’s Giant Robot Arms Are Spray-Painting Prodigies

The Boeing 777 is a huge , hulking beast . And when you ’re trying to boil out 100 of them every year , there ’s only one fashion to extract it off : wrench to the robots . These giant , atomizer - painting automaton weapon can coat one of the bird ’s gigantic wings in simple transactions .

Compared to old - fashioned men , the enormous brace of robotic arms not only forge faster and more precisely , but can complete the integral job without ever really moving the annex . Not have to move the vast mainsheet of metal from post to station to station during the process cuts out a spate of the hassle that used to be involved .

Now if only someone could come up with some handy golem that cankeep Dreamliner assault and battery from mellow down . [ BoeingviaIEEE Spectrum ]