A Guide to Making Robots Work in Your Factory

November 1, 2017

It was winter 2009, and I was on a mission to sell my startup’s first product, a robotic gripper, to the automotive manufacturers of Michigan. My cofounders and I-three friends from the robotics lab at Laval University-had a straightforward business plan for our new company, Robotiq.

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