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Why Welding Robots Still Need Human Help
Episode 11 explores why welding, a 3,000-year-old process, remains one of the most difficult tasks to automate in manufacturing. Lucas and Luna examine the physics, sensor challenges, and economics behind the 'weld gap' problem. Using the example of a small automotive supplier in Ohio that spent $2 million trying to automate a single welding cell — and still kept one human operator on site — they show that the hardest part of welding isn't the heat, it's the unpredictability. Metal warps, gaps open, and today's robots can't adjust their parameters fast enough…
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