RoboHub🤖(@XRoboHub):Kawasaki Heavy Industries is building a welder that can walk up steel walls. The four-legged prototype uses electromagnets to cling to the hull. It’s designed to use Physical AI for autonomous welding in shipbuilding. Experienced shipyard welders are getting harder to find, and Kawasaki wants to ease that shortage. Trials at its Sakaide Works are planned for 2027, with the goal of putting the robot to work in 2028. I’ve shared the RobotPlusPlus (ROBOT++) approach before: a wheeled magnetic base, dual arms and swappable tools for welding, rust removal and spraying. And this goes well beyond shipyards. Petrochemical storage tanks and wind turbine towers need inspection and maintenance, too. RobotPlusPlus says its existing robot lineup has already worked on over 10,000 ships and 1,000 storage tanks. Honestly, demand for this kind of work is huge. People shouldn’t still have to risk their lives hanging high above the ground to get it done.

2026.10.06 18:20

Kawasaki Heavy Industries is building a welder that can walk up steel walls. The four-legged prototype uses electromagnets to cling to the hull. It’s designed to use Physical AI for autonomous welding in shipbuilding. Experienced shipyard welders are getting harder to find, and Kawasaki wants to ease that shortage. Trials at its Sakaide Works are planned for 2027, with the goal of putting the robot to work in 2028. I’ve shared the RobotPlusPlus (ROBOT++) approach before: a wheeled magnetic base, dual arms and swappable tools for welding, rust removal and spraying. And this goes well beyond shipyards. Petrochemical storage tanks and wind turbine towers need inspection and maintenance, too. RobotPlusPlus says its existing robot lineup has already worked on over 10,000 ships and 1,000 storage tanks. Honestly, demand for this kind of work is huge. People shouldn’t still have to risk their lives hanging high above the ground to get it done.

RoboHub🤖@XRoboHub

2026.05.12 09:03

Let the robot take the risky climb. 🧗‍♂️🤖 RobotPlusPlus just introduced a humanoid special-operation robot for high-risk industrial sites, built on a wheeled magnetic-adhesion base that can lock onto steel walls while it works. Dual arms, swappable tools, one platform: welding, flaw detection, rust removal, grinding, spraying. That is exactly the kind of machine you want in petrochemical plants, shipyards, and energy sites — places where the job still needs to get done, but humans should not have to hang off the wall to do it.