Image: Advanced Construction RoboticsTyBOTAdvanced Construction RoboticsGantry robot that rides a bridge deck and ties the rebar intersections of both mats58 deployments · 1 country
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Rail-riding gantry robot that lifts rebar bundles up to 5,000 lb and places bridge deck bars
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- Deployments
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- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
IronBOT is a gantry robot from Advanced Construction Robotics that rides rails along a bridge deck, lifts rebar bundles of up to 5,000 lb, and carries and places the horizontal deck bars in both directions. A Robot Supervisor positions the machine, enters bar spacing and start direction, and singulates bars from each bundle by hand; tying is outside IronBOT's scope, and on both documented Shelby Erectors jobs a separate ACR robot, TyBOT, did it. On its first bridge deck, at Port St. Lucie in February 2023, IronBOT placed about 90% of the horizontal deck rebar, 130,952 lb, in 24 active hours out of 48 equipment hours, per ACR's project data. IronBOT is pre-commercial: ACR unveiled it at ConExpo in March 2023, and the only announced next job, the Oakvale Bridge in West Virginia, is a plan with Brayman Construction, whose chairman is also ACR's executive chairman.
Rebar Placement and Tying
Field outcomes
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IronBOT
Shelby Erectors
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Who has run it
4 deployments · 1 company · 1 country
Will it work on your site
- Site Preparation
- Rails, bar chairs of 1.0 in or moreBundles staged at the catch point and groomed
- Control Interface
- Belly Box transmitter with E-StopSkip, Continue and Replace overrides
- BIM/CAD Requirements
- No BIM input, vendor-statedCustomer page says placement follows the job's plans
- Travel Speed
- 12.1 m/min (0.66 ft/s)Auto-advances bar to bar, vendor-stated
As the maker states it.
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