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START pod: Ansel Dias, Founder & CEO, AutoFAB: “Building a distributed 3D-printing network. Local microfactories, one platform, zero inventory”
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Ansel Dias is using his robot factory to build more robot factories
AutoFAB is a robotic desktop factory that prints, assembles, quality-checks, and packages hardware autonomously
It’s already being used to manufacture more of its own robotic arms
The insight behind it is simple: Prototyping is easy
Production is the completely different ballgame - and that’s where hardware startups die
Factories. QA. Packaging. Scaling production.
That’s the bottleneck AutoFAB wants to eliminate
The long-term vision: AutoFABs making more AutoFABs
🎙️ Ansel Dias, Founder & CEO, AutoFAB on Fondo START pod
00:18 AutoFAB is a robotic desktop factory
00:33 It prints things, then assembles them
00:41 It does quality checks and even packs shipping boxes
01:03 Putting hardware into production is extremely difficult
02:01 AutoFAB to make more AutoFABs
02:14 Growth will become geometric
02:37 Right now it's making more of its own robotic arms
Check out autofab.net to learn more