Erin Price-Wright
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1,223 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Aug
Erin Price-Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You do it by hand, so you take a human and you do it.
Or you have a machine called a wave reflow oven, which is basically a huge molten pool of tin.
I went to Europe, I was visiting some manufacturers and they told me it's literally so expensive to heat up the tin in terms of energy that we don't turn it on because the volume that we do is not worth it.
So we'll just do it by hand.
So that kind of thing feels like it's very achievable to automate in robotics, but this is like a marginal thing in our assembly line.
What I don't think is a marginal thing is if you look at the implication of what automating knowledge work looks like today,
like at some point there is a vastly larger like chunk of the economy that needs like you to do something.
Like if you need to mine ore, like somebody needs to mine that ore and it can be a machine or it can be a human, hopefully not a human, like not the greatest job that like you don't want to put humans in harm's way.
Like you want to be able to actually have the robots that do this kind of stuff.
And so what we want to do is like,
you want to be able to be a part of this.
You want to be able to facilitate this.
One example is actuators.
We have some IP in motor controlling.
I have a good friend, David Hanson, who builds beautiful motors with Western Magnetics materials.
And we want to build them.
We want to build this kind of stuff.
We want to be part of this.
And I don't know if I would 100% bet on a specific form factor.
We invest and we really like robots that are specific.
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