Since it was founded in 2017, Pittsburgh’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute has been on a mission to improve manufacturing through robotics. Now it has $14.2 million in federal Build Back Better Regional Challenge funding to elevate that goal by launching its Robotics Manufacturing Hub.
The project has two elements, as ARM Institute COO Jay Douglass told Technical.ly. The first is creating a “de-risking” center for small manufacturers that allows them to try out robotics solutions. And for the second, the Hazelwood-based nonprofit is operating a network of makerspaces around the Pittsburgh region.
While the makerspaces will function as places where like-minded people come together to share their interests, the de-risking center will allow small manufacturers to simulate what it’d be like to produce products using robotics tech under the tutelage of…
