“Making the structure modular and from composite means the robot can be dismantled and moved easily by two people,” says Ben Morgan, Head of the AMRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Group (IMG). “Using composites also means that changes in temperature within a factory will have less of an effect on the robot’s accuracy than if it was entirely made of metal.”
Morgan adds that the tool can be used to drill and mill holes in aircraft wings faster and without having to make major investment in purpose-built machine tools, which cannot easily be moved.
