Robots for the work you cannot hire for
Two machines for the industrial floor and the building site: a humanoid that does the work a person would, and an autonomous carrier that moves material across the floor without a driver, to the millimetre. Designed, drawn and built here, on the same engineering as the delivery fleet.
Three things cap what a plant can produce
None of them is solved by buying another machine tool. They are all about who is standing in front of it, and for how long.
Positions stay open for months, attrition undoes the training, and the hardest jobs are the hardest to fill. Output ends up capped by hiring rather than by the line.
The ninth hour is not the first hour. Placement wanders, tolerance widens, and the cost lands as scrap, rework and warranty rather than as a line on the shift report.
Machines are idle at night because the crew for that shift does not exist. Capacity that is already paid for sits still for a third of every day.
A plant cannot hire the people it needs, cannot hold a tolerance through the ninth hour of a shift, and cannot staff the third shift at all. Three problems, one answer: machines that do the work people are not there to do, at a precision people cannot hold, for as long as the line needs to run. And because the plant was laid out around people, the machine has to fit the plant rather than the other way round.
Humanoid
Lifting, placing, loading and tool work — the jobs a plant would hire for if the people were there. It is human-shaped because the plant is: stairs, gangways, walkways between machines, and tools with handles made for hands. The floor does not have to be re-laid for it to start.
ANSWERS · THE THIRD SHIFT DOES NOT RUN
Autonomous carrier
Moves stock, parts and finished goods between stations, stores and bays with nobody driving it. It navigates on what is already there rather than on painted lines or rails, and docks to the same point every time, so the part arrives where the next process expects it. It does not take breaks and it does not miss the night.
ANSWERS · THE THIRD SHIFT DOES NOT RUN
What we are aiming these at
Narrow on purpose. Industrial and construction work, where the task repeats, the tolerance matters, the hours are unstaffable, or the place is one a person should not have to be.
Material movement
Stock, parts and finished goods between stations, stores and bays — the trips that eat a shift and need no judgement.
Machine tending
Feeding and unloading equipment that was installed long before anyone specified a robot cell around it.
Repeatable placement
Work where the part has to arrive in the same position every time, and where a few millimetres of drift becomes scrap.
The night shift
Running the hours that are already paid for in rent, plant and interest, and currently stand still.
Site logistics
Moving material across a construction site — up levels, over uneven ground, into places a forklift cannot reach.
Work nobody should do
Height, heat, confined spaces and loads heavy enough to injure the person carrying them.
Two product lines, one stack
The delivery fleet and the robotics line are not separate engineering efforts with a shared logo. They are the same four problems, solved once.
Sheet metal, frames, drives and swappable packs. A rover that survives a monsoon kerb and a platform that survives a plant floor are the same fabrication problem with different load cases.
Unstructured ground, moving people, poor markings, changing layouts. A site that changes every week is closer to an Indian street than to a European factory that was surveyed once.
Machines that ask for help when they are unsure, and a person who can take them over. The remote-assist layer the fleet needs is the layer an industrial machine needs to be allowed on a floor at all.
A machine that is not cleared does not run. No demo, no exception, no delivery date that overrides it — on a road or inside a building.
Tell us about the floor
If you run a plant, a yard or a site with work that fits the list above, the details of your floor are worth more to us than another survey. Write to us with what the job actually looks like.
Write to usThe delivery network runs on the same chassis, perception and control-room work.
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