1/14 Not everything is made in China. America is home to thousands of manufacturing businesses, over 600,000 - most of which are small and medium businesses. --> a 🧵
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New system went live in record time -- our robot was up and running HOURS after arriving at the customers' factory.
roboticsandautomationnews.com/2022/09/30/for
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"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
- Maria Montessori
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Tech applied to American Industry will be an unstoppable force to create a world of abundance.
All these factories will require a workforce - that’s something that currently just doesn’t exist in sufficient quantity. Proud that Formic will provide a workforce for every factory.
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The bottom line: Stop looking at just tech for innovation and remarkable returns.
American industry has been here and it is going to shine during this recession.
Recessions are, historically, where industrials shine the most.
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Helping a woman-owned business in modern America compete -- so great to see our robots move the needle for real main-street businesses in America's backbone.
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Automation is hyperdeflationary - we need robots to run our factories.
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9/9 "Fears of robots may make for good television, but their installation make for good economies. Now that a focus on fintech is underway, the robot revolution will be banked." Read more: luxcapital.com/news/the-robot
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Fantastic episode on robotics and its key role in helping the “reshoring” of manufacturing activity in America + opportunity to fill up millions of vacant jobs in factories with robots. @samanfarid @dannyfortson open.spotify.com/episode/5GcuwR
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Sad to see layoffs & the impacted individuals. At the same time super excited to see incredible talent move from optimizing ad views to blding real things for the real world🏭🏗️🚀✈️⛴️Join us and other incredible & companies. It’s time to build!
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How has every country in the world managed to agree on the same knot and procedure for tying shoes?
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It's crazy that Starlink satellites now number almost double the total of all other satellites combined. 🛰️📈
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Rented a car from with two infants in the car. Got a flat tire within an hour. Stranded on the side of the road. Now they refused to bring me a new car, and billed me for the entire week to boot
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said in a podcast that it feels more like a discovery than an invention — that resonates with me.
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With most amazing things in the world, once you look “under the hood” at how it works, you come away satisfied that it “makes sense”. As opposed to AI (LLMs, GPT, image rec etc.) the feeling is the opposite.
Knowing “how” they do it just makes me think “this shouldn’t work”
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Looks like we have a lot to get done in the year ahead at
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If your factory isn’t running on NYE while the lights are out - making money for you while you sleep — you’re doing it wrong.
Proud to be serving 🇺🇸 factories day and night
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Long distributed manufacturing. We need factories producing every flavor of skittles under the Sun
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Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.
Airlines have merged from 12 carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
A handful of drug companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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We're going to be hearing a lot more about 'The Titanium Economy'. First of all that's metal as hell, secondly, it seems like McKinsey has finally produced a banger.
"How the future of the American economy is hiding in an unlikely place: the manufacturing sector"
LFG 🏭🦾
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Looking for robot tinkerers! Cash 💵 bonus of $2500 if you refer someone that we hire! fieldengineer @ formic.co
[Bay area | Chicago | Michigan]
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As a recent father this graph scares the bejeezus out of me. Enough to seriously consider home schooling.
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All the good judgement in the world is useless without a dose of humility. To not doubt yourself is to make mistakes.
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Keep calm & carry on - even during tough times like these, entrepreneurs should remain vigilant and mindful of their risks. But what does that mean for manufacturers?
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Checkout our newly released whitepaper -- kind of a "what to expect when you're expecting" but for Robots.
formic.co/resources/whit
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If this is true this can completely change our lives in the next 10 years.
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Holy s**t! According to the Financial Times, scientists have solved fusion, which would provide for limitless energy.
I didn't think there would be a technological breathrough bigger than our advances in AI this year, but this is world changing if true:
ft.com/content/4b6f0f
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Dive deeper to learn more about the world we’re creating.
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1/14 Not everything is made in China. America is home to thousands of manufacturing businesses, over 600,000 - most of which are small and medium businesses. --> a 
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The robot workforce grows again! Our newest member makes high precision aerospace parts.
One step closer to the world of abundance.
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First time I see a robot arm that can move itself. Incredible! 😀
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Machina Labs #Roboforming can change the way refractory metal parts are made for #rockets! Now you can form complex shapes out of refractories like #Niobium without any investment in tooling and in matter of hours after design!
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Proud that Formic and other robotics companies are helping the world's supply chain meet any demands thrown their way. 🤖 We're working hard to stuff those stockings. 🎁
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Is anyone working on AI-assisted mechanical part design?
Seems like an interesting application.
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Huge congrats to Initialized portfolio companies
Who’s next?
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1/ We at @a16z are thrilled to publish the first-ever American Dynamism 50 
50 companies building in the national interest that embody the ethos of American Dynamism.
a16z.com/american-dynam
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A lot more entropy in crypto this week, but I’m doing my part to #fightentropy. Thanks fam for the great gift.
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"Economy = GDP per capita X capita.
If you no longer have a constraint on capita because of robots, it is not clear that there is any limit to the size of the economy."
Great quote from
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Absolutely no where comes close to being in the Bay Area if you want to see what the future is going to be like. The city doesn’t embody any of it, but scratch below the surface and you’ll find the smartest people in the world.
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Quote from a friend visiting SF this week:
“I learned more in 2 days in SF than in 2 months in NYC”
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Everything must be in walking distance, core services must not be more than 10 minutes of walk time
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The internet (and technology) has so far mostly only disrupted how we BUY things — it’s time to use technology to change how we MAKE things. (Otherwise there won’t be anything to buy)
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Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante says Ukraine has helped him understand what really matters. "What really matters is production."
"We as a country did our best to not do production," LaPlante said.
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