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WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO BUILD ALL THE BITS?
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WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO BUILD ALL THE BITS?

Millions of robots will need hundreds of millions of motors, gears, sensors and actuators. Somewhere in that supply chain, something is going to break.

Everyone is watching Optimus, Figure and Unitree.

I went looking at what actually goes inside the bloody things.

Motors. Bearings. Roller screws. Precision gears. Encoders. Force sensors. Magnets. Actuators.

Then I looked at who makes them, how difficult they are to manufacture and what happens if we really try to build millions of robots a year.

That turne…

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