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The Robots Come Home
Made in the USA
English - February 21, 2023 09:45 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsBusiness News automation education machinetools machining manufacturing manufacturingjobs skilledlabor supplychain trade tradepolicy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Productive Robotics is an American manufacturer of collaborative robots that spun off of a printing company called ZBE. But whereas ZBE — one of the premier manufacturers of digital photo printers in the world — offshored production of its machines to China, the goal of Productive Robotics was to produce its robots in the United States. Making this a reality took years of design experimentation and searching for the right American suppliers — suppliers that utilize the kind of automation that Productive Robotics itself aims to offer.