While you consider ceiling cranes, you’d usually consider giant metal I-beam girder methods that weigh one million kilos and will in all probability hoist the concrete basis proper out from below the constructing. CeiliX, nonetheless, has invented a sublime omnidirectional system known as the InifnityCrane Skyrunner.
Relatively than a heavy industrial rail, it makes use of a very customizable overhead lattice body that the crane “base” attaches to. It has a collection of particular person grippers – every outfitted with laterally-facing rollers – in a “tank track-like” configuration. Because it strikes alongside, the “tank tracks” rotate, opening and shutting the grippers, and grabs ahold of every of the specialised overhead rails alongside the lattice because it goes in any route, even diagonally. A winch with a cable can also be fitted within the InfinityCrane to do all of the heavy lifting.
The overhead rail community will be custom-made to any room form or measurement. It would not even matter if there are assist columns or different obstructions, the rails will be constructed round them for full protection of an space – or simply as a lot as you want.
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It is fairly genius. And barely paying homage to a Barnacle from the sport Half-Life, simply extra cell.
The Skyrunner is able to carrying a ~550-lb (250-kg) payload seemingly effortlessly with only a single individual pushing and pulling the payload round. A number of Skyrunners can work in unison to hold much more weight. They will additionally work in tandem for manipulating payloads, like flipping over an object or handing it off mid-air like a trapeze act – and all with only a single operator, no superhuman energy required.
Machine and fabrication outlets, aerospace, foundries, warehouses … there are one million methods these CeiliX Skyrunners might turn out to be useful for repetitive lifting and shifting of heavy objects. And it frees up floorspace.
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Ceilix made its North American debut in Might of 2025 on the Automate convention in Detroit, Michigan, the place the corporate confirmed off its Cellular Ceiling-Cobot – a Kassow robotic arm constructed by Rexroth with 7-axis freedom to deal with nearly any job under it. The useful cobot (collaborative robotic) can carry a payload as much as 40 lb (18 kg) and has a attain between 33.5 to 70.9 in (85 to 180 cm).
“We’re opening up a brand new dimension in automation,” mentioned Mathias Entenmann, CEO of CeiliX. “By shifting processes from the ground to the ceiling, we’re not simply saving area, we’re creating clever overhead methods that adapt, evolve and scale with our clients’ wants.”
CeiliX InfinityCranes collaborative operations
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