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Uses (New)

           Automotive Industry

Painting robots are used by vehicle manufacturers to do detailing work on their cars in a consistent and systematic way. Some of these robots are designed with a robotic arm that moves vertically and horizontally, to apply paint on all parts of the car. A patent granted in 1985 to the Mazda Motor Corporation also includes a “door handler” (1) that can open and close doors on a vehicle and paint the interior. [Picture of blueprints]

           Companies like FANUC continue to mass produce industrial painting robots that are then sold to manufacturers for use. According to FANUC’s website, these robots are useful in limiting safety hazards (2) in “dangerous painting environments,” reducing wasted materials through consistent application, and increasing productivity.

Blueprints for vehicle body painting robot.

Future (New)

           There are multiple ideas people have come up with to increase the presence of painting robots in various industries. One such idea comes from various university (3) technology professors; an interior wall painting robot. The design aims to make the robots “roller-based” so that it can move freely along walls and apply paint to them. Their (4) hope is to get people out of the toxicity of interior painting and decrease the amount of time it takes to finish walls. According to the designers, the robot can be made inexpensively as to make it more commercially available.

           CloudPainter is a company that designs robots, who's take on the painting robot shifts from simple filling of color to a robot that has “computational creativity,” and can paint more detailed and original designs . The robot has a 3-D printed paint-head with multiple robotic arms and is programmed with artificial intelligence and deep learning.

           [include picture for this paragraph] A painting robot designed by Shunsuke Kudoh is equipped with fingered hands and stereo vision. It is capable of “looking” (5) at an object, then, using its fingers, pick up a paintbrush and copy the object onto a canvas. The robot is relatively small and can paint small things, such as an apple.

           Other designs for painting robots outside of the automotive industry focus on making artwork. One painting robot was able to copy the style and even brushstrokes of Rembrandt, and creating original portraits using that style.

History (New)

           Painting Robots have been around since at least 1985. The main use of these robots was found in the automotive industry, but the concept of what a painting robot is capable of has been expanded by many people.   

Industrial robots, including painting ones, were created to keep people out of "dangerous" jobs as well as increase productivity. Since their creation, robots have been working side by side with people in manufacturing companies (Hinds, 2008).

           In recent years, the painting robot has evolved past (6) industrial use; Many inventors have taken on the idea of creating robots that can create works of art, rather than paint in just a solid color.  Besides making them more creative, others have looked for ways to make the robots affordable and accessible for commercial use in places such as interior wall painting.  

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Painting Robots. (n.d.). Retrieved February 20, 2018, from http://www.fanucamerica.com/home/industrial-solutions/manufacturing-applications/painting-robots

Painting robot with multi-fingered hands and stereo vision. (2008, October 29). Retrieved February 20, 2018, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092188900800167X

Sorour, M., Abdellatif, M., & Ramadan, A. (2011, November). Development of Roller-Based Interior Wall Painting Robot. Retrieved February 15, 2018.

Wallen, J. (2008). The History of the Industrial Robot. doi:10.18411/a-2017-023

Reynolds, E. (2016). Computer creates its own Rembrandt-style painting. Physics Today. doi:10.1063/pt.5.029724

Review (Edited by Lucy Fuglestad)

Comment 1: Add a definition to what a "door handler" is

Comment 2: Why is the environment hazardous, add more information

Comment 3: Be specific on which universities and their credibility)

Comment 4: Who is "their" be more specific about who you are talking about

Comment 5: How does the robot "look" at something? Add more info

Comment 6: You can add more information about how evolving robots will effect humans in the future, or what scientists predict will happen.

Source 1: I checked the first resource by going to the web address stated in the citation, this website is credible because the website was created by the actual inventor of the "cloud painter" making the information about the robot, credible.

Source 2: I checked this source by going to the website, this source is credible because it is the main page of a large manufacturer and they have extensive background on the painting robots

Sources 3: This source is credible because the Science Direct search engine is a credible source and is even used in the CSUM library.

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Source 6: This source is credible because it has a doi number attached to it which states that it is a published book

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