Industrial Robotics: Challenges

Large scale industrial robotics photography has many challenges.  In most cases, these items are too large, or valuable, to dismantle and bring to the studio, so we have to bring the studio to the client.
This 'machine' was assembled and tested in the client's manufacturing facility. It had to be photographed where it stood.
In other words - concrete floor, bad (fluorescent) lighting, dust, steel beams, a chip-board (un-painted) background and reflections of other machinery, tools, lights, etc. reflected not only in the glass, but also in the steel and aluminum frame of the unit.
This was photographed using 3 strobes and 2 speed-lights.  Post production work included reducing or eliminating glare and reflections to the point of rebuilding some of the structure frame within the image, close-cropped to insert a graduated background, slight perspective control, improve contrast and then optimized for print and web.