Painting was one of the first applications for industrial robots, but it didn’t start well.
When they were first introduced in the 1980s at General Motors’ Michigan plant, the robots initially painted each other, according to an article on industrial robot history, published on Robots.com.
The complexity of painting is probably under-estimated because humans can do such tasks with relative ease. [Read more…] about From two months to a few seconds: A brief overview of automotive robotic painting systems
