This final paper will describe the introduction of robotization into the industrial process for the purposes of a technological surface protection operation. The first part will explain the processes and systems of surface protection (painting, plastification and less frequently bitumenisation), and the preparation of surfaces (shot blasting) before the protection process itself. Examples of installations in the real manufacturing sector include fluidized bed plastification line and water bitumenisation line. A roughly similar painting line will be displayed using the V-REP software tool. The program will select the KUKA painting robot that will spray paint onto a workpiece that will be rotated by the positioner. The stand „Viktorija zdenac“ will serve as a workpiece model that will rotate as the robot applies layers of paint on it. Because V-REP is the most advanced and highly customizable simulator, it can also be used in virtual reality (VR) for motion programming via VR glasses and controllers. The second part and mainly the main theme of this final paper is to design and simulate a robot painting cell in the V-REP software tool. It will describe the setting of the kinematics of the KUKA robot and the spray sensor. The process of inserting a stand model from Solid Edge into V-REP and its path will be used to control the robot from scripts via the functions of the Lua programming language. The positioner who will rotate the workpiece while the robot is painting the path is also controlled from the script with its functions and parameters. Finally, parts of other manufacturing processes will be presented before and after the painting process itself, as well as the protective conditions for both humans and the environment. After the robotic painting cell is created, the simulation examines the process of applying the paint to the workpiece itself.