While many robotics companies are making human -sized robots, or working to automatically make the entire factories, Micro factory Instead, he is trying to think big by building a small.
The micro factory based in San Francisco built a general purpose, a tabletop manufacturing kit that is about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate. The compact factory contains two robotic weapons and can be trained by human demonstration as well as AI.
In an interview with Tech Crunch, Micro Factory co -founder and CEO Igor Kolakov said, “The normal purpose robots are good, but it is not necessary to () become humanity.” “We have decided to design a robot from the beginning, which will still be a general purpose but not in human form, and thus, it can be very easy, very easy, very easy by hardware and AI.”
Instead of selling individual robotic weapons, the micro -factory system comes as an associated but transparent work station, which allows consumers to see the manufacturing process in real time. The compact factory is designed for precision tasks on a box such as circuit board assembly, component soldering, and cable routing. Consumers can train robots by physical guidance to the arms through complex movements.
“It usually takes a few hours, but in this way, the robot better understands what it should do,” said Kolkouv. “When you hire people, we still need to spend time like a week or anything else to monitor their work again. A manufacturing company, a manufacturing company, already has to spend time and resources, and it will be very easy to train and work so.”
With traditional manufacturing, Kolkouv’s experience helped to give rise to the idea behind the micro factory.
He and his co -founder, Victor Patrinco, were driving Bit Light, a manufacturing business that made portable lighting equipment for photographers. It is difficult to train new employees about how to complete the manufacturing process properly, Kolkov said. When the progress made in AI felt it possible to automatically make such work, they decided to jump on the spot.
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Kolkouv and Petrinco launched the micro factory in 2024. It took about five months to make them their prototypes. Now the company has hundreds of advances that want to use machines for various consumer applications, including the slow processing processing to collect electronics and even send France for scargate.
The micro factory has just collected the seed funding round before only $ 1.5 million, which includes AI company executives such as executives, and investors’ entrepreneur naval rocant. Round value the young startup value the money after 30 million.
The company plans to use funding to build and ship its units, Kolkouv said. The company is currently turning its prototype into a commercial product that is expected to start shipping in about two months.
The company also plans to do some jobs and improve its technology, including the AI model operated by the hood.
“Our growth is related to the construction of hardware, so we have decided to increase it 10x every year,” said Kolkouv. “In the first year, we want to prepare a thousand robots, (about three) daily, and we have the ability to do it. Then, (we want) create more and more production.”