Robert Playter

You know, the hinges are on the left and it opens in.

The rest is up to you.

So we want in for a task like opening doors, you can automate most of that.

And we've automated a few other tasks.

We had a customer who had a high powered breaker switch, essentially, it's an electric utility, Ontario power generation.

And they have to, when they're gonna disconnect, you know, their power supply, right, that could be a gas generator, could be a nuclear power plant, you know, from the grid, you have to disconnect this breaker switch.

Well, as you can imagine, there's, you know, hundreds or thousands of amps and volts involved in this breaker switch.

And it's a dangerous event, because occasionally you'll get what's called an arc flash.

As you just do this disconnect, the power, the sparks jump across and people die doing this.

And so Ontario Power Generation used our spot and the arm through the interface to operate this disconnect in an interactive way.

And they showed it to us.

And we were so excited about it and said, you know, I bet we can automate that task.

And so we got some examples of that breaker switch.

And I believe in the next generation of the software, now we're gonna deliver back to Ontario Power Generation, they're gonna be able to just point the robot

at that breaker, they'll indicate that's the switch.

There's sort of two actions you have to do.

You have to flip up this little cover, press a button, then get a ratchet, stick it into a socket, and literally unscrew this giant breaker switch.

So there's a bunch of different tasks.

And we basically automated them so that the human says, okay, there's the switch, go do that part.

That right there is the socket where you're gonna put your tool and you're gonna open it up.