Robe has reported enjoying 2025’s PLASA London expo at Olympia as the show continues to expand.
Robe and all its brands – Avolites, Anolis, LSC Control Systems, and Artistic Licence – took up the largest footprint on the show floor, revealing a new live expo show “Excalibur & the Lights of the Round Table” which included two talented dancers, acrobat Oskar Skrypko, and Pauline, a 2.6-ton industrial robot all right at the centre of the action.
The Czech Republic-based manufacturer used this opportunity to launch six versatile new LED lighting products – T3 Profile, iPAINTE LTM, SVOPATT Classic, Footsie1 MC and Footsie2 MC, plus the PowerDolly, a highly practical, innovative product for the world of ‘festival specials’ and touring floor packages.
Another Innovation Award
At the show, Robe was recognised for its ProFrost diffusion system. Judges were impressed with the “continuously variable and even diffusion of this frost across the beam, even with shutters and gobo edges introduced.”
ProFrost offers lighting and visual designers seamless levels of diffusion control that were previously unachievable with this progressive frost that smoothly melts and dissolves projections to any desired level. Operable at any zoom setting, it diffuses from 0° to 15°, producing the most natural and organic looking softening to the complete beam dispersion – evenly and across the full field – effectively allowing fixtures to be used as ‘key lighting soft lights’.
New Products Launched
T3 Profile
Joining Robe’s T-Series, specifically designed and finessed for theatre and broadcast environments, the T3 Profile is designed for long-throw applications and takes high-power multispectral performance to new levels, delivering unparalleled output, light quality, and precise colour control.
Over 31,250 lumens (integrating sphere) emanate from the T3 Profile’s 1,400W MSL (Multi-Spectral-Light) LED engine, offering user-selectable – CMY, RGB or individual colour emitter RGBAL – colour control for highly nuanced colour work.
Colour features include a DataSwatch virtual colour library; factory-calibrated whites; an extensive 2,700K to 8,000K CCT range; lamp-selectable tungsten emulation; and MCE multicoloured effects directly from the LED engine.
The virtually controlled CRI of 80-95+ delivers perfect colour rendition and skin tones.
To make physical handling easier, UpLift handles can be swiftly attached and removed, which greatly improves the ease of carrying larger fixtures. Further, Robe’s ProFrost system is featured on this fixture.
iPAINTE LTM
The highly compact iPAINTE LTM is designed to amaze with its power, precision and effects while occupying expedient truss or roof space.
A 170mm front lens produces great optical quality together with a comprehensive feature set, weighing only 30kg, maximising WashBeam flexibility and performance.
The smart optical design is highly versatile with a 2:1 field ratio, enhanced yet further with a zoom range of 3° to 52° – narrowing the iris allows coverage from 2° to 52°. In Long-Throw mode, using patented xR7 technology, this fixture provides ultra-tight beams from 0.7° to 2° without any of the intensity loss usually associated with engaging an iris.
Power Dolly
Getting power to exactly where it is needed can be challenging, especially running it out to a remote location where trailing cables are also impractical … until now.
Robe’s PowerDollyÔ solves remote power issues for all environments from film sets to show stages, festival fields to corporate events to ship decks at sea and everywhere in between. It provides a simple solution to get the juice of illumination to wherever it is needed!
Weighing 80kg, the PowerDolly provides a stable, firm base with a load capacity of up to 200kg for all types of kit, including lights, audio, and AV equipment.
For all-round environmental protection, PowerDolly has IP65 ingress protection, and for touring and location work, the unit has an IK07 impact protection rating.
Selected for safety, longevity, and extra stability, the LiFePO4 battery within the PowerDolly delivers long-lasting 5,000Wh power. Generating 2,000W for 2.5 hours, or over 300W for 16 hours, there is plenty of time and latitude to power up whatever is needed.
SVOPATT Classic
Iconic luminaires are instantly recognisable in the world of lighting, and following the initial SVOPATT launch, demand surged for a streamlined model echoing the essence of the original, so Robe produced the SVOPATT Classic.
Blending timeless design with cutting-edge performance, this makes a bold impact either as a scenic element or as a dynamic light curtain or as part of a ‘pixel matrix’ combined with other ‘pixel’ style fixtures. SVOPATT Classic has nine individual modules, each with six 40W RGBA multi-chips that deliver over 12,500 lumens of output and 132,500 lux at 5 metres.
With a fixed 4° beam angle, each module supports quick-swap diffusers, so the beam spread can be tailored to all design requirements – individually or across the entire fixture.
FOOTSIE 1 and FOOTSIE2 MC
With its sleek, low design, the IP65-rated FOOTSIE MC brings footlights up to date. There are 24 by 4W RGBW or RGBA LED multi-chips on the FOOTSIE1 MC and 48 by 4W RGBW, or RGBA LED multi-chips on the FOOTSIE2 MC, and these rugged, IP65-rated fixtures are designed to remove any visual barriers between audience and performers with a cool, low-profile, 52mm-high design.
A self-contained cable tray removes any loose laying cables and reduces trip hazards, resulting in a cleaner looking installation with quick and easy connection between fixtures, including various angled corner pieces, which are straightforward to set up and highly adaptable.
Excalibur – The Show
Devised by Robe’s in-house creative team led by Nathan Wan and Andy Webb, “Excalibur” was a high-octane performance designed to showcase Robe’s latest technologies in the environment for which they are built.
Alongside the new iPAINTE LTM, a featured product, Robe wanted to give the PAINTE Fresnel its moment in a complementary context, so this fixture was used for colouring the stage and some other diverse applications.
The WTF! strobe was prominent onstage – used minimally due to its high power – which helped give it max impact, with plenty of high frequency zooms, plenty of retinal overload, plus some more subtle effects.
The iBOLTS in the show were also used with several more theatrical and subtle effects, demonstrating the reach and possibilities of functions like gobos and rotation.
The iPAINTE LTMs in the back and mid trusses were at the heart of the action for the whole show. Their power was very evident, juxtaposed against a large upstage LED screen. They did plenty of gobo rotation effects and interplayed with LedPOINTES on the sides.
The SVOPATTs above and around the booth space were utilised for numerous classic accenting hits, blinder looks and joining in with the general pixel effects work from other relevant fixtures, while around the edges of the stage, iFORTE LTXs provided big side punches that sliced through for the performance numbers.
Fog and haze were provided via MDG’s TheONE and ICE FOG Compack products.
The 10-minute time-coded show ran five times a day (four on the final day) and was programmed on an Avolites D9 console, with a D7 also running in session together with two TNP racks. An Avolites Q3PRO server running AI software ran the video content that was also produced in-house, together with the costumes and props. Choreography for the dancers was by Jaye Marshall.
