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Path Robotics has developed a legged robot called Rove for large-scale industrial welding. It moves to the worksite and scans welding seams to understand their shape. Then, its AI performs welding and adjusts the process in real time.

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Robot dogs are now welders! 👨🏼‍🏭 Path Robotics launches a mobile welding robot on quadruped platform, called Rove. This quadruped robotic welding system is paired with their Obsidian physical AI model. Obsidian already delivers autonomous, adaptive welding inside fixed cells. Rove brings intelligent welding to the part rather than moving the part to a fixed workstation. Shipbuilding, heavy construction, and large-scale fabrication share a constraint, massive assemblies and workpieces that cannot be moved or fixtured inside welding cells. These conditions have limited welding automation in environments that need it most, just as skilled welder shortages reach critical levels. Legged robots have long been considered too unstable for precision welding. Rove changes that. Obsidian provides the perception and adaptability needed to operate in high-variability environments. Saronic Technologies, a leader in autonomous maritime vessels, is one of the first early adopters, integrating Rove into its physical AI-powered shipbuilding operations in Franklin, Louisiana. 🇺🇸 Welding requires millimeter-level precision on a moving quadruped platform, considered impossible until AI-based perception and control made it feasible. 🔥 Andrew Lonsberry gotta be honest, but a welding robot dog wasn't on bingo card for 2026. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Robot dogs are now welders! 👨🏼‍🏭 Path Robotics launches a mobile welding robot on quadruped platform, called Rove. This quadruped robotic welding system is paired with their Obsidian physical AI model. Obsidian already delivers autonomous, adaptive welding inside fixed cells. Rove brings intelligent welding to the part rather than moving the part to a fixed workstation. Shipbuilding, heavy construction, and large-scale fabrication share a constraint, massive assemblies and workpieces that cannot be moved or fixtured inside welding cells. These conditions have limited welding automation in environments that need it most, just as skilled welder shortages reach critical levels. Legged robots have long been considered too unstable for precision welding. Rove changes that. Obsidian provides the perception and adaptability needed to operate in high-variability environments. Saronic Technologies, a leader in autonomous maritime vessels, is one of the first early adopters, integrating Rove into its physical AI-powered shipbuilding operations in Franklin, Louisiana. 🇺🇸 Welding requires millimeter-level precision on a moving quadruped platform, considered impossible until AI-based perception and control made it feasible. 🔥 Andrew Lonsberry gotta be honest, but a welding robot dog wasn't on bingo card for 2026. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

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