nLink · working robot
Mobile Drilling Robot
A robot arm on a mobile scissor-lift base that reads a drilling pattern from a tablet and drills holes in concrete ceilings. nLink's current site no longer promotes it.
- Price
- —Planned as a drilling-as-a-service business rather than a product sale
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Billed as the world's first mobile drilling robot for concrete ceilings; it won the RoboBusiness 2014 Pitchfire startup contest.
Real-world use
nLink said two clients would start using it in early 2015.
Maker
nLinkCompanyPublic attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
Mobile Drilling Robot is the only machine from nLink in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedPlanned as a drilling-as-a-service business rather than a product sale
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Mobile Drilling RobotnLink | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useHadrian 105Fastbrick Robotics (now FBR Ltd)Same job: construction · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  HX2 autonomous electric load carrierVolvo Construction EquipmentSame job: construction · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
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| First shown | 2014 | 2015-06 | 2017 |
| Status | Discontinued | Retired | Retired |
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