It’s tough work for pairs of humans who install each of the 60,000 rivets that keep Boeing's 777 from falling apart in midair, so they’re getting some help from pairs of robots on the plane production ...
Swiss-based RUAG Aerospace (Hall 5, D7) and Hydro-Control Steuerungstechnik of Germany have developed the first blind riveting robot used for assembling an aircraft component. It goes into operation ...