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FerRobotics' polishing EOAT
At Automate, FerRobotics partnered with Kane Robotics to showcase its ACF-Kit end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) for sanding and polishing tasks. Using Kane’s GRIT system, which includes a Universal Robots cobot arm for composites sanding, FerRobotics’ end effector dynamically polished a hood of a car.
“One of the challenges we’re focusing on is material removal,” Alan Hiken, chief operating officer at Kane Robotics, told Robotics 24/7. ” “FerRobotics provides high-end end-of-arm tooling for the automotive industry. It’s confirmation that our partners are starting to get more comfortable with representing this technology with their own product lines and applications.”
Kane Robotics also partnered with Applied Automation and ATI Industrial Automation at Automate. Applied Automation showed Kane Robotics’ GRIT XL system, which it said was designed for polishing larger items like aerospace parts.
ATI Industrial Automation, on the other hand, displayed Kane’s smaller system – the GRIT ST cobot. ATI used the robot with its ATI CGV welding grinding tool and 3M’s Cubitron II abrasive media.
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