H2 Clipper, Inc., an aerospace and alternative energy company developing capable hydrogen-powered airships and end-to-end hydrogen infrastructure solutions, announced that it has been granted US Patent entitled: “SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AIRSHIP MANUFACTURE USING ROBOTICS.”
This foundational robotics patent using advanced “swarm robotics” achieves radical reductions of cost and quantum advances in manufacturing techniques for a wide variety of applications—including large scale lighter than air airships.
H2 Clipper is determined to use the most advanced technology to safely build, launch and fly its “green” Clipper airships that will cruise typically at 150mph powered by hydrogen using fuel cells to create propulsion and using hydrogen as the lifting gas. The time efficiencies and massive manufacturing cost reductions that
Swarm Robotics will permit for all airships construction in the future provides a viable economic path for hydrogen powered flight that will greatly reduce the costs associated with the transport of liquid hydrogen and containerized freight.
H2 Clipper founder and CEO Rinaldo Brutoco said, “When we finished designing the major structural components of our airship, with our partners at Dassault Systèmes as set forth in recently granted US Patent No. 11,820,482 entitled: “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHTER-THAN-AIR AIRSHIP WITH IMPROVED STRUCTURE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM,” we realized that something so massive would require a hangar 24 stories high and 1500 feet long. We recognized that we could not build the airships of the future using a conventional assembly line. We therefore began to develop advanced robotic technology that utilized ambulatory and floor mounted robots working in concert as a “swarm” to co-construct the exoskeleton of the airship.” Additionally, in filing the foundational robotics patent Brutoco foresaw the use of conventional programming being supplied by its Dassault partners to tell the robots how to work together to assemble the massive ship; and then, moving on to teach the robots what they had done and how using artificial intelligence; and then, as a third stage instructing the robots how to teach themselves in the future how to optimize construction using generative artificial intelligence.
H2 Clipper as a supplier of midstream enabling technology to industry, has a mission to develop and commercialize a global fleet of 100% green airships, to be built some by itself and 90% built by other licensee companies that will transform the hydrogen and air transport industry.
H2 Clipper was selected in 2021 for inclusion in Dassault Systèmes‘ exclusive 3DEXPERIENCE®Lab accelerator program up to September, 2023 when it was given a new 3 year contract by Dassault and broadened to cover robotic software development for H2 Clipper.
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