| Robotic welding is used when an industry wants to | | | | industry found that they could use robots to do spot |
| animate their welding process. You may know about | | | | welding. As of 2005, there were over 60,000 robots |
| this type of welding because it is often used on | | | | being used in many industries in North America for |
| assembly line work, especially in the automotive | | | | welding. |
| industry. | | | | Robotic welding can be relatively expensive to do so it |
| Robots are used to handle the parts that need to be | | | | can be difficult for some industries to bring in more |
| welded and to perform the weld. Robots are generally | | | | equipment. Many robots are being "employed" to also |
| used when you want to do resistance spot welding or | | | | do arch welding and they have two parts: the |
| arc welding where there is a need for high production. | | | | manipulator that is how the robot is able to move, and |
| Although robotic welding is fairly new, they were | | | | the controller which is the "brain" of the operation and |
| started in about the 1980s when the automotive | | | | actually performs the weld. |