Design

Designing a robot a lineworker can hang in ten minutes

Every handle, latch and label on Heron was tested with gloves on, from a bucket, in the wind.

8 min read

By the Stralen field team

The first Heron took four people and an hour to install. The current one takes two people and ten minutes, and most of that is lifting the case.

Gloves on

Every latch works with a Class 2 rubber glove. Every label reads from two metres. There is one button, and it is blue.

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