The answer was always going to be a robot, but needless to say, there isn’t an off-the-shelf solution for such a specialised task. So we designed and built a head for a robot capable of handling three nail guns at once. Using industrial vision, the robot places each nail in the correct spot every time, eliminating inconsistency and human error.

As the robot operates with human workers, we installed safety software with a Category 3 safety rating to control delivery of the nails from the guns. This was a New Zealand first.