RoboTurb is a welding robot

Robot welding

Robot welding is the use of mechanized programmable tools , which completely automate a welding process by both performing the weld and handling the part. Processes such as gas metal arc welding, while often automated, are not necessarily equivalent to robot welding, since a human operator...

 used to repair turbine

Turbine

A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they move and...

 blades developed at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Federal University of Santa Catarina is a public university in Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil....

. It is a redundant robot with a flexible rail.

The Roboturb project started in 1998 at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina initially with the support of the Brazilian Government and the public power utility
company COPEL – Companhia Paranaense de Energia Eletrica.

Three phases followed, and now the project is mainly maintained by another public power utility
company FURNAS – Furnas Centrais Eletricas.