Hatched in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, robotics start-up, Grabit is harnessing static electricity, machine learning and automation to assemble the uppers of Nike trainers at 20-times the pace of a human worker.
Follow @TheManufacturer Assembling a pair of Nike trainers can require up to 40 pieces of material to be stacked and heated to create the upper — the flexible part that sits on top of your foot. Material handling is one of the most labour-intensive and expensive aspects of manufacturing, and when…
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