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Robots are increasingly being used by businesses to drive sustainability and safety , as well as efficiency . Hexagon AB – recently named by BizClik Media Group as the second biggest tech company out of Sweden – has deployed autonomous reality capture solutions such as the BLK ARC , which enables companies to create Smart Digital Realities for a wide variety of industries , from construction to media and entertainment to conservation .
A recent example of this was used in Pompeii , Italy , beginning with the Leica BLK2FLY , the first flying laser scanner capable of autonomously conducting 3D scans .
The BLK ARC works with SPOT , a quadruped robot in the service of archaeologists to safely inspect archaeological areas and structures that could prove dangerous to people . The project was a collaboration with Boston Dynamics , Leica Geosystems ( part of Hexagon ), and Sprint Reply , a Gruppo Reply company specialising in robotics and process automation .
Burkhard Boeckem , CTO , Hexagon AB , says : “ The BLK ARC is an autonomous laser scanning module for robots . It is able to capture and share data , enabling sites such as Pompeii – which were previously difficult or unreachable due to safety or
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