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#54 Saman Farid: America Doesn’t Have a Robot Problem. It Has a Deployment Problem.
I sit down with Saman Farid, founder of Formic, to get real about what it takes to deploy industrial robots in practice. We go deep into robotics-as-a-service, how we can make manufacturing more productive, and the labor reality for small/medium-sized manufacturers in the United States.
If you want a dose of robot reality beyond flashy demo videos, you will enjoy this episode.
Among the topics we discuss are:
* Deployment gap in the robotics
* Hidden labor crisis
* Robotics as a Service (RaaS)
* China vs U.S. manufacturing culture
* How Formic turns automation from CAPEX to OPEX for their…
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