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The last barrier to robotic shipbuild- ing has just fallen. What comes next will be truly exciting.

By Joseph Keefe t wasn’t too long ago that SSI and Wolf Robotics demon- ity. Even though ships of the same class are going to be very strated some co-development which automatically drove similar, the nitty-gritty differences are enough that it wreaks

Ia fully autonomous welding robot to weld several ship havoc on trying to set up a purely automated manufacturing panels. SSI develops Autodesk based solutions for the ship- system/assembly line.” And, with those obstacles in mind, building and offshore industry including ShipConstructor SSI, Wolf Robotics and Bollinger Shipyards embarked on the software, an AutoCAD based CAD/CAM product line; remarkable project. And while this effort, to date, isn’t the and EnterprisePlatform, a tool for sharing product data end of the journey, it likely represents a quantum leap for- model information. For its part, Wolf Robotics has been ward in shipbuilding ef