Product profile
The Machine
The Machine is Urban Machine's mobile robotic lumber-reclamation system. Vision-guided gantries and purpose-built end effectors remove nails, screws and st...
Facts
- Company
- Urban Machine
- Product type
- industrial_robot_system
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Reclaim lumber
- Website
- https://urbanmachine.build/the-machine
About The Machine
The Machine is Urban Machine's mobile system for reclaiming dimensional lumber from construction and demolition sites. Computer vision locates nails, screws and staples, then high-speed gantries position purpose-built bird-beak pickers around the timber to pull fasteners from all four faces.
Brushes remove attached surface material and a metal detector checks each piece before it leaves the process. Software records the quantity and quality of recovered wood to plan site work and estimate reusable output. The system handles material from 2-by-4 boards through 6-by-18 sections, glulam and heavy timber, and is scheduled or rented for local processing near the waste source.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Industrial system
Core: Vision gantries
Function: Reclaim lumber
Audience: Recovery facilities
Specifications
- fastener_removal_coverage
- Simultaneous extraction from all four planes of dimensional lumber
- lumber_throughput
- Up to 16,000 square feet of lumber per day sq ft/day
- process_hardware
- Vision systems, high-speed gantries, purpose-built end effectors and metal detector
- supported_lumber_sizes
- Dimensional lumber from 2x4 to 6x18, plus glulam and heavy timber
Operations
- Environment
- construction and demolition sites, wood-recovery facilities
- Primary user
- demolition contractors, material recovery facilities
- Role
- robotic fastener removal and lumber reclamation
- Interaction model
- operator-loaded automated process
- Mobility class
- transportable industrial machine
- Product detail
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