Once you consider ceiling cranes, you’d usually consider giant metal I-beam girder methods that weigh 1,000,000 kilos and will in all probability hoist the concrete basis proper out from below the constructing. CeiliX, nevertheless, has invented a chic omnidirectional system referred to as the InifnityCrane Skyrunner.
Slightly than a heavy industrial rail, it makes use of a totally customizable overhead lattice body that the crane “base” attaches to. It has a collection of particular person grippers – every outfitted with laterally-facing rollers – in a “tank track-like” configuration. Because it strikes alongside, the “tank tracks” rotate, opening and shutting the grippers, and grabs ahold of every of the specialised overhead rails alongside the lattice because it goes in any route, even diagonally. A winch with a cable can also be fitted within the InfinityCrane to do all of the heavy lifting.
The overhead rail community may be custom-made to any room form or dimension. It would not even matter if there are assist columns or different obstructions, the rails may be constructed round them for full protection of an space – or simply as a lot as you want.
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It is fairly genius. And barely harking back to a Barnacle from the sport Half-Life, simply extra cellular.
The Skyrunner is able to carrying a ~550-lb (250-kg) payload seemingly effortlessly with only a single particular person pushing and pulling the payload round. A number of Skyrunners can work in unison to hold much more weight. They’ll additionally work in tandem for manipulating payloads, like flipping over an object or handing it off mid-air like a trapeze act – and all with only a single operator, no superhuman power required.
Machine and fabrication outlets, aerospace, foundries, warehouses … there are 1,000,000 methods these CeiliX Skyrunners may come in useful for repetitive lifting and transferring of heavy objects. And it frees up floorspace.
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Ceilix made its North American debut in Might of 2025 on the Automate convention in Detroit, Michigan, the place the corporate confirmed off its Cell Ceiling-Cobot – a Kassow robotic arm constructed by Rexroth with 7-axis freedom to sort out nearly any job under it. The useful cobot (collaborative robotic) can carry a payload as much as 40 lb (18 kg) and has a attain between 33.5 to 70.9 in (85 to 180 cm).
“We’re opening up a brand new dimension in automation,” stated Mathias Entenmann, CEO of CeiliX. “By shifting processes from the ground to the ceiling, we’re not simply saving area, we’re creating clever overhead methods that adapt, evolve and scale with our prospects’ wants.”
CeiliX InfinityCranes collaborative operations
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