TP7’s team was invited to showcase at Toyota’s internal vendor event
THE SO WHAT
Dual-arm mobile robots that work cage-free and learn new tasks in minutes via vision and natural language are edging toward drop-in labor in brownfield factories. If you run operations, it’s time to inventory tasks that could be handed to a “train-on-the-floor” robot rather than waiting for a full line redesign.
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