Finally, someone automating the boring infrastructure stuff! 🫟 Road markings is tough. Nobody cares about them until they're gone. Then suddenly everyone's mad. But someone has to paint those lines, in traffic, in bad weather, repetitively. So 10LINES built a robot that just... does it. Workers don't have to... stand in live traffic anymore. Digital mapping. Data-driven operations. The robot knows what it painted and where. Quite productive I would say :) This is the stuff nobody talks about in robotics. Not sexy like other embodiements, but a robot handling infrastructure work that's dangerous and tedious. Roads, parking lots, tunnels, all need this. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

Another incredible benefit to roadwork robots is safety. Every year there are 60,000 construction deaths and one common way road workers die is being hit by cars. Every worker that we can get out of harms way is another potential life that can be saved through robotics.

Send a few hundred to Winnipeg where I grew up! No lines anywhere there. 😆

Infrastructure automation is such an underrated category. The boring stuff that nobody thinks about until it breaks is exactly where robotics can make the biggest impact. Great find.

Best detail: founder Tarmo Prints ran a traditional line-marking company for ten years before robotizing his own trade. 1-2cm RTK accuracy, 7x faster, already striping US parking lots, on barely €2M raised. Vertical robotics keeps coming from the trade

Is this faster and cheaper than humans? My judgement is not?

so you're telling me there's life beyond ai agents? and saas platforms?

Geod?

@Montreal Maybe you can finally paint lines on the roads? cc @mtlgazette @CTVMontreal @CBCMontreal

@grok Where is this in production and application?

sir that's a parking lot

Imagine these on German road construction works, developed further for asphalt work… we’d get stuff done 😂

Exactly the kind of robots which bring in massive ROI in safety, consistency and infrastructure.