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Meet Mrs. Roboto: Nissanâ€™s Robotic Car Door Tester
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(Posted on Nov 16, 2017 at 03:26AM by Michelle Bogle)

If you regularly travel with kids or other passengers, the doors on your vehicle get a real work-out. Sometimes they are shut gently, but oftentimes they are slammed or closed with fervor as you rush out of your car to make it to a meeting or get inside the grocery store before they close for the night.

The doors on your vehicle take a lot of abuse, opening and closing 45,000 times over the course of a decade. Thatâ€™s a lot of slamming!

And the engineers at Nissan? They understand this reality, which is why they enlisted help from an automated test device â€“ a 1.5-ton durability robot, whose sole job is to test car door reliability at the Nissan Technical Center North America (NTCNA) in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

The robot is named Rosie, but also goes by the nickname Mrs. Doorboto. In three days, she opens and closes a door as much as a typical customer does over the course of a decade, working around the clock with no breaks. And while Rosie works hard and for long hours, her robo-job is highly appreciated because it would be physically impossible (and mentally taxing) for a human tester to assess the durability of the door hinges, latch mechanisms, weatherstripping and window glass frames over a replicated ten-year period.

Itâ€™s certainly a tough job, but an important one, as it relates back to Nissanâ€™s promise of quality, durability, and innovation. And to that, we say, "Domo arigato, Mrs. Doorboto."

To learn more about how Nissan is leading the way with state-of-the-art technologies, like Rosie, contact our dealership today in Seattle, Washington.