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Farid: Robot Form Factor Is Irrelevant if Software Properly Abstracts Motion Control
“To be honest, like the form factor is kind of irrelevant because in all of these types of robots that you're talking about, you have a couple of motors and some motion control, right? Like it's actually if you can abstract away the software enough, like all of…”
Farid: Programming accounts for under 5% of Formic's robot deployment costs
“From the hundreds of robots that we've deployed today, less than five percent of my deployment cost is programming the robot to do the thing.”
Farid: Humanoids Face Severe Maintenance Hurdles Due to Having 30 to 50 Motors
“Like a six axis robot has six motors a humanoid, most of these humans that we've seen have something like 30 to 50 motors, right? And so just, you're just talking about like the wear on the motor, we have to go out and lubricate these joints and replace motors…”
State automation grants sit undeployed because factories lack expertise, Farid says
“Like, when we talk to the states, most of them say, like, we can't give out these grants. Like, nobody's using it because people don't know what to buy. They don't know how to buy it. And once they buy it, they're like, they can't handle the responsibility of …”
Farid: Six-Axis Robot Arms Represent Vast Majority of Factory Automation Use Cases
“Articulated six axis robot arms are still the vast majority of use cases, right?”
Farid: Formic's robots produce all the nachos for Chipotle
“We make all the nachos for Chipotle and dog food and cat food and laundry detergent.”