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 autonomouslyIt’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

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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 boxes0

1:03 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

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