Early Attempts Pre-Titan
Before NREC and Titan involvement, numerous attempts to automate airframe surface processing were made with limited success.
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Our team is made of industry experts across robotic systems. Our engineering experience includes cutting edge modeling, path planning, machine vision, machine learning, industrial robotics, lean manufacturing, and almost all other areas of advanced robotics.
Our team works with equipment suppliers to improve designs and push limits to bring proven technologies into new application spaces. If a piece of hardware does not exist that we need, we have an engineering team ready to build the solution.
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Pre-2009
Before NREC and Titan involvement, numerous attempts to automate airframe surface processing were made with limited success.
2010
After successful participation in a US Air Force competition, the Air Force funded an effort at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) to develop an automated full aircraft surface processing system. This started with delivering a high-power laser to the surface of aircraft to remove paint.
2014
The USAF determined the laser de-paint system is vetted and could be used on production aircraft.
late 2014
After considerable external interest in the underlying technology, Carnegie Mellon spun out a company (Titan) to broadly commercialize the technology. Titan Robotics Inc. was granted the exclusive license to the technology that enables our systems.
2016
Titan Robotics Inc. receives first contract in transfer of technology from Carnegie Mellon / NREC.
2018
Titan Robotics Inc. is awarded a contract at Warner Robins AFB in Macon, GA. Our laser depaint system is being integrated in a different hardware configuration showing the versatility of our systems.
Beyond
The team at Titan has continued to develop the software to provide better and more diverse capabilities.