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Dog crate-sized robot factory learns to assemble electronics by watching humans
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...MicroFactory highlighted that to set up the system, users must use copies of these robotic arms from outside the box.

Using another external robotic arm, users will show the in-box AI system how to perform a task. They can show how to grab an object and place it in a different place.

The original in-box robotic arms will copy the action and be able to perform the same tasks perfectly.

The company also made a UI that breaks down tasks into small steps.

“General purpose robots are good, but it’s not necessary [to] be humanoid,” said Igor Kulakov, the co-founder and CEO of MicroFactory...

It took them about five months to build their prototype. Now the company has hundreds of preorders from customers looking to use the machines for various applications, including assembling electronics and even processing snails to be shipped to France for escargot...

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