🤖Robotics Saturday🤖 ❗Robots working with really high temperatures❗ Hope Technology (IPCO) Ltd goes to extreme lengths to make sure their brake rotors can handle the toughest rides without warping. During braking, rotors face massive temperature swings - from cold starts to hundreds of degrees in seconds. That kind of stress can easily distort metal over time. To prevent that, Hope uses a special heat treatment process that “trains” the steel to stay stable. Each raw rotor is heated to 1040°C in an oven, then rapidly cooled to just 10°C in a press - all within a few seconds. This violent temperature shift, known as thermal shock, permanently stabilizes the metal’s internal structure. The result? A rotor that stays perfectly true and reliable, even after countless hard stops and high-heat descents. Perfect job for robot... Right? Seen at: Antoine Taillefer 🚲
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The unmatched IRB140…Swedish/Swiss Army knife of small robots 🫶
Marcin Gwóźdź definitely a job suited for robots that people used to be at risk doing.
Nice one Marcin - ABB small robot IRB140 in action ✅👍
Wow, really impressive how robotics aid in such precise heat treatments! How do you see automation evolving in manufacturing for endurance components? I enjoy brilliance let's network
Impressive! Going from 1040C to 10C "within a few seconds" means the robot has to coordinate furnace extraction and press loading in a tightly synchronized sequence while fighting thermal expansion of the gripper on every cycle. ABB's IRB140 has 0.03mm repeatability at room temp, but maintaining that precision when your end effector is literally changing dimensions through hundreds of degrees is where the real engineering challenge lives.
Wow, impressive how robots assist in such precision heat treatments! Do you think automation will revolutionize manufacturing for other extreme-condition components?
Well done automation. India expected some problems with the temperature my friend Marcin Gwóźdź
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