FAQ

What skills are needed to operate PACO ?

PACO has been designed for profesionnal painters, not for engineers. User experience and ease of use are at the heart of the new robot’s methodology. PACO can be easily manipulated after a 2-hour training. This saves a lot of time on construction sites.

How much time can I save on a construction site?

The current painting speed (painting without any human handling) is 180 m²/h and should be even faster with the next updates. The time saved depends on the type of job: as there is a minimum deployment time, PACO is particularly efficient on large surfaces with a high volume of work.

How much does PACO weigh and how big is it?

You will find all these answers on the Specifications page.

What type of paint does PACO use?

Pretty much any paint that goes into an airless pump goes into PACO (yes, there is an airless pump inside PACO ;)).

PACO only uses water-based paints (i.e. paint with no solvent).

What are the risks of using PACO?

PACO is CE certified. This guarantees the safety of people and minimize its impact on the environment.

Safety is one of the main assets of PACO, using a robot reduces the risk of falls and accidents on sites by automating the painting process up to 3.5 meters.

Is this robot intended to replace painters?

No, PACO is a collaborative robot which requires human expertise to shine.

We want to augment humans by letting the machine work on the dull and repetitive tasks and leaving the fine work and decision making to humans.

PACO works in collaboration with humans to make us faster, more efficient and therefore more productive while protecting us.

You can see PACO as another tool in addition to brushes, rollers and paint pumps and which is very efficient on specific types of sites.

What is the life span of PACO ?

PACO has a lifespan of approximately 8 years. The average life of an industrial machine is 10 to 15 years, but on construction sites, this value is reduced because of the hostile environment.

How long does it take to set up the robot and program it?

It takes a few minutes to bring PACO to the site with say a trolley, and 20 seconds to scan a room of 50 m².

Programming is very quick as our patent app is designed to be very intuitive.

What are PACO's features?

PACO can currently paint. We are also working on very interesting new features (but shhhhh, this is a secret ;)).

How many litres of paint can PACO use?

The PACO is fed by paint cartridges with a capacity of 18L. Depending on the paint, it paints about 180m² with one cartridge.

How long can PACO operate?

PACO comes with two rechargeable batteries. Each battery can operate for 3 hours and takes about 2 hours to charge, hence you can swap batteries and work continuously.

How much is PACO?

Check our offers : here

When will PACO be on the market?

Right now! You can already purchase or rent PACO and deploy it on your sites today. You can order your demo or purchase and rent PACO today.

When can I buy PACO?

Right now! You can already purchase or rent PACO and deploy it on your sites today. You can order your demo or purchase and rent PACO today.

What type of sites can PACO be operated on?

PACO is designed for interior painting. It is qi;ed at volumes and large surfaces: Premises Open to Public (schools, offices, hospitals, stores, public establishments…), industrial or premium housing with accesses, wide corridors and volume.

PACO can be deployed on new constructions as well as on renovation projects.

What type of floors can PACO be operated on?

PACO can move on all types of floors without causing any damage thanks to its dense foam wheels.

Also, each wheel is equipped with damped springs so it can pass over obstacles up to 20mm (bumps or holes) and has a floor clearance of 40mm.

Is PACO accurate?

Just as with manual painting, PACO requires masking of unpainted areas and overlaps a few centimeters over the tape.

When the masking is removed the details and corners are clean and perfectly cut-out.

How do you clean PACO?

PACO is equipped with an automatic cleaning system using water or environmentally friendly solvents. This cycle takes 12 minutes, is highly automated and goes through both the spray and prime circuits, so you can leave PACO do the hard work for you and do something else meanwhile.