Robert Playter
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1,075 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Because A, you have to have a fleet of robots to just accrue that much information.
You have to be willing to dedicate it to that test.
And so that's, but that's essential.
That's how you get it.
And we're still learning a lot there.
We're learning how to cast parts instead of mill it all out of billet aluminum.
We're learning how to get plastic molded parts.
And we're learning about how to control that process so that you can build the same robot twice in a row.
There's a lot to learn there.
And we're only partway through that process.
We've set up a manufacturing facility in Waltham.
It's about a mile from our headquarters.
And we're doing final assembly and tests of both spots and stretches at that factory.
And it's hard because, to be honest, we're still iterating on the design of the robot.
As we find failures from these reliability tests, we need to go engineer changes.
And those changes need to now be propagated to the manufacturing line.
And that's a hard process, especially when you want to move as fast as we do.
And that's been challenging and it makes it, you know, the folks who are working supply chain, who are trying to get the cheapest parts for us, kind of requires that you buy a lot of them to make them cheap.
And then we go change the design from underneath them and they're like, what are you doing?
And so, you know, getting everybody on the same page here that, yep, we still need to move fast, but we also need to try to figure out how to reduce costs.
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