__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Robotics
Most are choosing to shelve it.
The people who understand the problem- the production manager who knows exactly where automation would help, the process engineer who has thought through the workflow- are already in those organizations. They are not the gap. The gap is that the infrastructure for robotics development was built for someone else.
A software problem in an engineering wrapper
Many manufacturers already have access to software capability, whether in-house, IT teams, or through trusted development partners. What those developers have never been able to do is apply those skills to a robotics problem, because the toolchain wasn’ t designed for them.
I spent two decades building software teams. I watched what happened when cloud platforms arrived, not just to
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