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Founder of @ValstadShip. We're building the machine that builds the ships.

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Fit-up of bent or warped material is one of the most challenging aspects of autonomous shipbuilding. This lil’ snippet from an upcoming video shows how we’re solving that problem. The future of shipbuilding will look very different from the past.

Fit-up of bent or warped material is one of the most challenging aspects of autonomous shipbuilding. This lil’ snippet from an upcoming video shows how we’re solving that problem. The future of shipbuilding will look very different from the past.

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We've never published this entire video before, but... what the hell. This is our vision for the shipyard of the future. This is how we fight back against China's shipbuilding dominance. This is how we produce 10x more in a single shipyard. From raw steel in to a full set of panels out, ready for erection. All autonomous. Every crane move, every assembly step, every weld... controlled by software we're building from the ground up. Our roadmap will see us build every part of this as modular, inexpensive cells that stretch standard industrial robots to their payload & reach limits. Cells we can build in months instead of years. We're starting in Austin, shipping out panel kits that accelerate the shipbuilding process for America's over-stretched and labor-starved shipyards. Then we'll deploy systems like this all over the country to accelerate production of everything from tank barges to tankers to unmanned surface vessels. It's possible to do this in America. I know because we're doing it. And because it must be done. Time to Accelerate American Shipbuilding.

We've never published this entire video before, but... what the hell. This is our vision for the shipyard of the future. This is how we fight back against China's shipbuilding dominance. This is how we produce 10x more in a single shipyard. From raw steel in to a full set of panels out, ready for erection. All autonomous. Every crane move, every assembly step, every weld... controlled by software we're building from the ground up. Our roadmap will see us build every part of this as modular, inexpensive cells that stretch standard industrial robots to their payload & reach limits. Cells we can build in months instead of years. We're starting in Austin, shipping out panel kits that accelerate the shipbuilding process for America's over-stretched and labor-starved shipyards. Then we'll deploy systems like this all over the country to accelerate production of everything from tank barges to tankers to unmanned surface vessels. It's possible to do this in America. I know because we're doing it. And because it must be done. Time to Accelerate American Shipbuilding.

108,020 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Okay, we went completely overboard... BUT. Here's a short snippet of the 7+ minute, fully-animated rendering of what will be BY FAR the most advanced shipyard ever built in America. We spent the last two months working on it. And we'll spend the next 1.5 years making it real.

Okay, we went completely overboard... BUT. Here's a short snippet of the 7+ minute, fully-animated rendering of what will be BY FAR the most advanced shipyard ever built in America. We spent the last two months working on it. And we'll spend the next 1.5 years making it real.

129,588 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

This is a highly advanced shipbuilding factory in China, covering 1757 acres and producing 400 inland vessels per year. It’s no exaggeration to say this is miles ahead of anything in the US - and it’s why our “gigafactory for ships” concept is so urgent. We need to accelerate.

This is a highly advanced shipbuilding factory in China, covering 1757 acres and producing 400 inland vessels per year. It’s no exaggeration to say this is miles ahead of anything in the US - and it’s why our “gigafactory for ships” concept is so urgent. We need to accelerate.

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Let's build ships in America again.

Let's build ships in America again.

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With every iteration our system gets faster and more precise. Find the right part (in any orientation), assemble it, tack it, and weld it in a distortion-minimizing stitch pattern. The speed at which we're able to navigate obstacles now is *chef's kiss*. RTU integration is much more fluid. Imagine an army of these building ships 24/7.

With every iteration our system gets faster and more precise. Find the right part (in any orientation), assemble it, tack it, and weld it in a distortion-minimizing stitch pattern. The speed at which we're able to navigate obstacles now is chef's kiss. RTU integration is much more fluid. Imagine an army of these building ships 24/7.

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The Only Thing They Fear Is Ships.

The Only Thing They Fear Is Ships.

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Simulator we built with integrated physics. Works on Apple silicon. Runs against Fanuc controller software and has an end-to-end sensor pipeline, so we can be confident if it runs in sim, it will run on real hardware.

Simulator we built with integrated physics. Works on Apple silicon. Runs against Fanuc controller software and has an end-to-end sensor pipeline, so we can be confident if it runs in sim, it will run on real hardware.

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Testing out version 2 of our system, with two robots on independent carriages co-operating to carry out assembly tasks. This was manually programmed to gut-check the approach (learning: we're redesigning our gripper to prevent arc blow... Jim Belosic will be getting more business from us soon). The next step is to build the same part using internal software (e.g. no programming, 100% driven by the model) that plans everything from sequencing to weld paths and 7DOF robot kinematics. It’s a hard software problem, but once perfected will allow us to build at blazing speed.

Testing out version 2 of our system, with two robots on independent carriages co-operating to carry out assembly tasks. This was manually programmed to gut-check the approach (learning: we're redesigning our gripper to prevent arc blow... Jim Belosic will be getting more business from us soon). The next step is to build the same part using internal software (e.g. no programming, 100% driven by the model) that plans everything from sequencing to weld paths and 7DOF robot kinematics. It’s a hard software problem, but once perfected will allow us to build at blazing speed.

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One small step for shipbuilding, one giant leap for Valstad. Our custom software stack is now controlling the robots. Ingest CAD model, generate robot instructions. Zero manual programming. We'll be open-sourcing the FANUC drivers we wrote to do this shortly.

One small step for shipbuilding, one giant leap for Valstad. Our custom software stack is now controlling the robots. Ingest CAD model, generate robot instructions. Zero manual programming. We'll be open-sourcing the FANUC drivers we wrote to do this shortly.

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