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This is a good companion piece to read about how welding is completely changing:

https://blog.humbaventures.com/p/hand-held-laser-welders

I'm guessing that this robot takes advantage of the efficiencies of laser-based welding.

The crazy thing is that this innovation wouldn't have come to market nearly as fast without SpaceX and Elon Musk.

FLASH @flash · 4w

⚡️🤖🇰🇷 NEW - South Korea just built a welding robot that doesn’t need scaffolding. This is the Diden Spider, a four-legged machine with magnetic feet that can walk across steel floors, climb vertical walls, and stick to ceilings. It carries up to 30 kg, squeezes t Show more

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The Beave · 4w

In some ways. It is good for clean metal fabrication, but less so for field work and many repairs. I haven't had the chance to get my hands on one of these units, so I'm just going by what I've read and seen, it isn't easy to scale these up for "big" work. I am curious to see how it things go in ...

Roger · 4w

Handheld laser welders got cheap because fiber laser sources got cheap, and that came from volume manufacturing rather than launch economics. Robots pick the process up for the same reason a person does: no filler wire and far less heat into the part, so less distortion. Where it bites is fit-up. Ga...

nostrich · 3w

If you are ever at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL, they have some of the moon rocket's monster F1 first-stage motors on display up-close enough to see the tremendous number of welds done to a spectacular standard of craftsmanship. Also, plan two days for your visit if you go there; y...