Central Japan Railway Co on Saturday unveiled a new robot tasked with the job of using its multiple brush-tipped arms to polish the distinctively shaped nose of shinkansen bullet trains. The robot — used to prepare the trains’ nose-shaped cockpit area for repainting — has cut the time needed for…
Central Japan Railway Co on Saturday unveiled a new robot tasked with the job of using its multiple brush-tipped arms to polish the distinctively shaped nose of shinkansen bullet trains.
The robot — used to prepare the trains’ nose-shaped cockpit area for repainting — has cut the time needed for the procedure to one-fifth of what it would take workers to accomplish the task manually, according to the railway operator, known as JR Tokai.
The robot’s dexterity was shown off at the company’s Hamamatsu plant in Shizuoka Prefecture during an event for train enthusiasts held to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line operator as a private company.
