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Why Pixel-Based Robot AI Is an Expensive Detour | Chao Cao, Sancho (opens the original)
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Advanced manufacturing has automated the individual process steps. CNC, 3D printing, photolithography - however complex the step, we can build a machine for it. The handoffs between those machines still run on people, and in cell therapy that means $300,000-a-year scientists spending their days loading and unloading equipment while contamination risk and throughput bottlenecks drive up the cost of every dose. Chao Cao (Co-Founder & CEO, Sancho - CMU robotics PhD, autonomy lead for CMU's DARPA Su
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