Twenty-first century broadcast robotics are becoming mainstay players in the studio.  Initially robotic camera platforms were labeled as a job thieves, another way for conniving station managers to eliminate human jobs and salaries.
 
But their exploding popularity in the past few years underscores that the role of the production robot is much more significant – not cost reduction, but value addition!

The Computer Assisted Manufacturing technology which so dramatically transformed the world of manufacturing in the last two decades has morphed into an impressive array of bots that surpass the range and capability of human operated cameras in almost every environment.  Witness cameras swooping over sports fields, careening from articulated jibs, and flawlessly executing complex XYZ ballets on the production stage – the applications and capabilities are blossoming to the delight of the program consumer.

The opportunities for new dynamic movement are opening up the creative advantages of broadcast robotics, which cannot be replicated by traditional camera support platforms.

Many of these robotic camera platforms are configured with camera prompters to support the on-screen Talent and that marriage has surfaced a number of technical challenges. The expanded range and velocity of robotic pan/tilts subjects the prompting system to major inertial forces that results in platform lurching, lens shudder and prompt monitor blurring - an unpleasant source of squints and delivery stumbles for the Talent and a loss of production quality for the station. 

Tekskil has worked closely with several robotic system manufacturers to engineer a stable prompting platform - a robust and innovative prompter architecture.

Whether it’s a 5 pound prompting platform perched on an automated boom, or a gigantic 22” prompter head with an equally large talent monitor loaded onto a mobile 3 axis robotic pedestal.

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