Whenever you consider ceiling cranes, you’d usually consider massive metal I-beam girder techniques that weigh one million kilos and will most likely hoist the concrete basis proper out from below the constructing. CeiliX, nonetheless, has invented a sublime omnidirectional system referred to as the InifnityCrane Skyrunner.
Somewhat than a heavy industrial rail, it makes use of a totally customizable overhead lattice body that the crane “base” attaches to. It has a sequence of particular person grippers – every geared up 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 path, 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 might be custom-made to any room form or dimension. It does not even matter if there are assist columns or different obstructions, the rails might 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 cell.
The Skyrunner is able to carrying a ~550-lb (250-kg) payload seemingly effortlessly with only a single individual 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 one million 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 Could 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 beneath 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,” mentioned Mathias Entenmann, CEO of CeiliX. “By shifting processes from the ground to the ceiling, we’re not simply saving house, we’re creating clever overhead techniques that adapt, evolve and scale with our prospects’ wants.”
CeiliX InfinityCranes collaborative operations
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