Robe recently launched GigaPointe at ISE 2026. Powered by a 350W white Phosphor Laser source, the fixture includes a LSW-3 engine that produces >4.000.000 lx at 5m.
Robe’s booth – the brand’s largest yet – was prominent in Hall 6 at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via. This year, Robe staged a nine-minute long live show, Excalibur – The Lights of the Round Table, which ran five times a day and featured acrobat Oskar Skrypko performing with two dancers and Pauline, an industrial robot for good measure. In addition to the GigaPointe, Robe launched the T10 PC and the T10 Fresnel – the latest expansion to its T-Series. Anolis, Avolites, LSC Control Systems and Artistic Licence also highlighted their latest products.
GigaPointe offers 1.8° to 21° beam and 3° to 42° spot modes that automatically adjust based on the selected effects. Beam reducers and 1° and 5° frosts provide yet more versatility and options, from tightly focused aerial beams to softer, subtler washes.
Each fixture has a CMY colour mixing system and a 13-colour dichroic wheel as well as the DataSwatch virtual library with 66 pre-programmed colours, including essential whites, deep saturates, and refined pastels. An effects toolkit includes static and rotating gobo wheels, and Robe’s patented SpektraBeam engine; MLP stackable multi-level prisms have independent speed and directional control for added depth with a 540° pan indexing range.
There are a host of Robe patented features in GigaPointe, including GLINT (GigaPointe Light Intensity Technology), which helps produce intensity, beam sharpness, a flat field, contrast and vivid gobo projection at any optical setting.
The colour finesse of the T-Series is reportedly maintained using MSL (Multi-Spectral Light) additive colour mixing concept combined with Robe TE technology (TRANSFERABLE ENGINE), while the MSL-TE 200W LED engine produces over 10,500 lumens. There is a virtually controlled CCT range of 2,700K to 8,000K (extended range 1,800K to 10,000K), a set of calibrated whites, as well as tungsten emulation for ultra-precision control.
Imagined and produced by the in-house creative team led by Nathan Wan and Andy Webb, Excalibur featured a mix of lighting genres and styles combined with dance and acrobatic performance, music, narrative and gravity-defying performance, showcasing Robe’s latest technologies. Around 24 fixtures were situated centre stage, rigged on four vertical trusses upstage, providing a six by four ‘matrix’ style back wall of light.
GigaPointes were used for spot and beam effects and for eye-candy, in addition to over 250 lighting instruments involved in the showcase, including eight iBOLTS. Other fixtures used in the show were the full series of iFORTE LTX, iESPRITE LTL and iPAINTE LTM luminaires; T10s and T11s, Tetra2s, FOOTSIE2s, SVB1s on 4-bars, SVOPATT Classics, and PAINTE Fresnels. Three iESPRITE LTLs were used as follow spots – one each for the three performers – running on three RoboSpot systems and operated by students selected from different international elements of Robe’s NRG – Next Robe Generation – educational initiative.
Six students were selected from Germany, the UK, Lithuania, and Belgium through an open call and joined Robe at the tradeshow. Excalibur was programmed and run on an Avolites D9-215 console. Challenges included working with a fully ground-supported rig, and as always, the usual trade show time pressures, but a lot of planning and pre-visualisation ensured that everything ran smoothly for this ambitious show to go on.
The show scenography, video content and costumes were also all designed and produced by Robe’s creative team, working with a choreographer and Oskar Skrypko, who evolved his own moves with Pauline, the brainchild of Ulik Robotic Shows, managed by Ulrich Kahlert.
