Automotive robotic paint line tracking (1980s)
In the 1980s, GM and other automakers installed robot paint lines that followed car bodies moving on conveyors, letting plants paint continuously without stopping production. Each system needed custom controls and teams of integration engineers.
Auto plants raised throughput and paint quality, and line tracking became standard in mass production.
The capability stayed confined to large plants with engineering budgets, out of reach for smaller shops.
Hirebotics packages the same conveyor-following logic into a no-code cloud platform, making it available to manufacturers who could never justify a custom system.
