Bladt Industries in research project to develop a mobile robotic welding crane

A new research project at the Center for Large Structure Production (LSP) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) has received a grant of just over DKK 13 million to develop a mobile robotic welding crane.
The scope of the project is to develop a new type of robot that can weld at 15, 20 and perhaps even up to 50 meters in height.

Lack of welders
A considerable part of the costs of the production of wind turbines goes to welding, and at the same time there is a shortage of qualified welders. The robot can thus become particularly important for the green transition, and there is a need for such an initiative, if we are to achieve the goal of expanding green energy from offshore wind turbines, and supporting a sustainable future. 

Facts:

• The development of a mobile robotic crane platform has received DKK 13,339,485 in support from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme (EUDP)
• The robot will be developed by researchers at SDU's Center for Large Structure Production (LSP) in collaboration with Bladt Industries, Inrotech, Odense Robotics, and Energy Cluster Denmark
• Initially, the robot will be used for welding foundations for wind turbines at sea - both the so-called monopiles, which consist of a large steel cylinder that is lowered into the seabed, and the so-called jackets, which are a more open construction in the style of towers for high-voltage lines

Read the press release from SDU here (in Danish), and the Inrotech press release here.