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Why Robot Factory Moves Are So Painfully Slow
Lucas and Luna explore the hidden bottleneck in industrial robotics: the physical move. When a car maker relocates a robotic assembly line, the process can take weeks—even months—because each robot's kinematic model, safety zone, and tool-center-point calibration must be rebuilt from scratch. Lucas unpacks how one German automotive supplier, ZF Friedrichshafen, spent 47 days moving 112 robots from an old plant in Schweinfurt to a new facility 12 miles away. The conversation zooms in on the specific pain points: legacy control software that can't import settings between generations…
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