Robert Playter
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And we want that to be a very reliable process, because that's what somebody who's running a brewery, a factory,
That's what they need the robot to do.
And so we have to dog food our own robot.
We have to test it in that way.
And so on a weekly basis, we have robots that are accruing something like 1,500 or maybe 2,000 kilometers of walking and over 1,000 hours of operation every week.
And that's something that almost, I don't think anybody else in the world can do.
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.