If you think stripping paint off an end table can be a messy, time consuming job, imagine removing paint and other coatings from an aircraft like the C-130 transport plane. Tasked with developing a ...

The most expensive part of any car build, nine times out of ten, is the paint job. Not only are the paint and materials themselves pricey, but the real cost lies in the huge amount of labor involved ...

A Dutch robotics specialist with sustainable, automated solutions for both painting and stripping aircraft is opening its first operations in North America at the Port San Antonio campus. Xyrec will ...

PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory ...

At Port San Antonio, a 7-story-tall, laser-wielding robot is ready to blast coats of paint from aircraft and other big pieces of machinery. A collaboration between Southwest Research Institute and ...

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways is to strip the paint from its freighter aircraft as part of a plan to reduce costs. Oneworld alliance carrier Cathay says in a statement that the first freighter ...