Robots that master the hardest manual work

AI-driven robots that process new, unseen parts in surface finishing instantly, so Western factories can manufacture competitively

Surface finishing like sanding, coating and welding is still often done by hand, and Europe’s manufacturers can’t hire enough people to do it. Germany alone has 630,000 open industrial positions. Traditional robots only pay off on long runs of identical parts, which rules out the high-mix work the Mittelstand runs on. mkind’s Manufacturing Foundation Models take a 3D point cloud of a part and generate the robot motion and parameters instantly, even on parts the system hasn’t seen before. With that, the robots act like expert workers and help the West manufacture competitively.