SAN FRANCISCO —
San Francisco, CA, Sept. 28, 2022 — The Canvas drywall ending robotic obtained prime honors final week within the 2022 Professional Instruments Innovation Awards (PTIA), profitable first place within the expertise / robotics class. 2022 marked solely the 2nd 12 months the PTIA has included expertise/robotics as a class. Final 12 months, the Hilti Jaibot obtained the primary award within the class for its robotic that drills holes in concrete ceilings.
The Canvas Distinction: In guide drywall ending, the seams between the sheets of drywall are joined with (usually fire-resistant) tape. With a view to make the tape “disappear” from the wall, or seem flat, as much as 4 extra layers of drywall joint compound, or mud, are utilized to the hearth tape. Every layer should first dry after which be sanding earlier than the following layer might be utilized.
The Canvas drywall ending machine can do each Degree 5 partitions (mudding and sanding) and Degree 4 Focused Spray partitions (mudding solely). When in Degree 5 mode, the complete wall is sprayed just one time (over moist fire-tape). After drying, the wall is machine sanded to a predictably high-quality end. This course of can take as few as two days with one dry cycle in between. When in Degree 4 mode, solely the fire-taped seams on the wall are sprayed (the fire-tape might be moist). After drying, the wall is then sanded the standard approach. In each Degree 5 and Degree 4 Focused Spray, the mudding course of solely takes one coat of joint compound and one dry cycle earlier than sanding.
Canvas trains its clients to function the machine no matter talent degree. The coaching takes about 5 days to finish. Coaching contains the best way to safely function the machine, the best way to direct the machine to scan the wall and create the workspaces, and troubleshooting.
[See graphic for the steps the customer takes when using the machine on a Level 5 project.]
This is what the Professional Software Innovation Awards judges needed to say concerning the Canvas System:
Elevated Security: The machine protects staff from mud inhalation by vacuum-capturing 99.9% of the particulate generated by sanding. Its telescopic robotic arm reaches heights of 17 toes, maintaining staff secure on the bottom as a substitute of on ladders or scaffolding. It decreases most, and in some instances all, of the repetitive-motion work that’s liable for 1 in 4 tapers being injured on the job.
The machine protects staff from mud inhalation by vacuum-capturing 99.9% of the particulate generated by sanding. Its telescopic robotic arm reaches heights of 17 toes, maintaining staff secure on the bottom as a substitute of on ladders or scaffolding. It decreases most, and in some instances all, of the repetitive-motion work that’s liable for 1 in 4 tapers being injured on the job. Improved High quality: The Canvas system produces exceptionally high-quality, and predictable, finishes on each mission.
The Canvas system produces exceptionally high-quality, and predictable, finishes on each mission. Elevated Productiveness and Compressed Schedules: The machine can do in as few as two days what takes conventional drywall ending as much as seven days.
The machine can do in as few as two days what takes conventional drywall ending as much as seven days. A Resolution to Labor Scarcity: As building trade employee shortages proceed to worsen, Canvas fills the hole and gives a dependable resolution.
A various staff of PTIA judges–together with contractors,building enterprise homeowners, tradespeople, and media professionals–evaluated the instruments and machines, which characterize essentially the most modern building and out of doors energy gear trade merchandise on the earth.
Says Professional Instruments Innovation Awards Government Director Clint DeBoer: “Most of the newest award-winning merchandise confirmed a excessive improve in effectivity, bolstered security, and/or elevated jobsite productiveness.” The Canvas System delivers on all these fronts.
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