As humanoid robot developers race to move their machines from demonstrations and pilot projects into factories and other working environments, another challenge is rapidly coming into focus: how to manufacture these highly complex machines at scale. Building a handful of working humanoids is one thing. Producing hundreds or eventually thousands of robots with consistent quality, […]

Upside Parts, a Massachusetts-based custom manufacturing company, released an analysis of more than 30,000 3D-printed parts produced across hundreds of customer orders, looking at how robotics companies use on-demand 3D printing. Robotics customers accounted for 82.3 percent of total part volume. The analysis comes as robotics production is expanding across the US, increasing the need […]