Armbrust relies on Japanese robotics and pneumatics despite domestic manufacturing goals
Lloyd Armbrust · HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust · Apr 28, 2022 · at 27:19
Lloyd Armbrust explains that despite positioning his company as domestic and supply-chain resilient, core robotic components must be imported from Japan.
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“Even though we are sort of like supply chain proof, and that's something we talk about a lot, we're not really because of some of our parts, like our robotics, like our pneumatics are all Japanese. So what happens if we can't get our Japanese parts? Like they don't make them in the United States. They just don't.”
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