Construction work, done by machine.
Rift Machines is a construction robotics company. We build machines for work that is slow, repetitive and exposed, starting on the utility pole line.
The slow partis the workin between.
The materials are made. The plans are drawn. What takes the time is everything between them: thousands of small, careful jobs done by hand, one at a time.
We build machines that do that work, with a crew in charge of them. The aim is not to remove the crew. It is to let a small one do far more, with fewer people in exposed places.
We are starting on the utility pole line, with Spider Monkey. It is the first machine, not the only one we intend to build.
How we design.
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Use what is already built.
The pole and the strand already reach the work. Spider Monkey travels on them and leaves the street alone.
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Grip only what was built for load.
Existing lines carry other people's service. Spider Monkey holds the steel strand and keeps off the cable.
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Keep a person in command.
Every machine runs under a supervisor who can stop it or take over. Every approval and override is logged.
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One machine for the whole job.
One type of robot does every step, so a crew learns one machine and carries one set of spares.
From modelto metal.
Spider Monkey exists today as a checked engineering model. The work ahead is hardware: build it, hang it, break it, and build it again until it earns its place on a line.
Let's buildsomething.
For utilities, contractors and builders with work a machine should be doing. Tell us what the job is and where it is slow.
Or write to hello@riftmachines.com