(Comau: Southfield, MI, and Grugliasco, Italy) -- Comau and Leonardo have jointly developed and are testing a powerful, self-adaptive robotic solution to autonomously inspect helicopter blades measuring up to 7 m. The cutting-edge solution ensures higher quality and greater flexibility without sacrificing precision or repeatability.

Comau’s intelligent robot perceives and sees its surroundings, calculates its decision making, and intuitively optimizes the end-to-end inspection processes. The increasing push for faster processes, better control, and higher quality in the aerospace industry necessitates a new generation of advanced automation designed to automate complex processes that until a short time ago could only be done manually.

When it comes to testing critical structures such as helicopter blades, for example, the potential benefits of automation increase exponentially, because robotic inspection delivers accuracy as well as efficiency. It also ensures standardization of, and full compliance with, the testing process by objectively completing each assigned task.

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