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Jun 12, 2020 15 min

iRobot

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We talk to Wayne Ma about Apple's attempts to have robots handle the manufacturing process at their factories and why it hasn't worked. Then we speak with Kate Clark about the federal paycheck protection program loan and the startups that took advantage of it. Special guests this episode included David Bourne, a scientist at the Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University and Jonathan Wasserstrum, the CEO of SquareFoot. More reading What Apple Learned From Automation: Humans Are Better After Chaotic Start, Federal Loan Program Helped Startups Avoid ‘Deep Layoffs’

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