Robot founder: supplier forgot leg joint screws, damaged his humanoid; AI visual QC is extremely useful
yongqianme · x · 2026-11-09
A humanoid robotics practitioner replying to a piece about AI visual quality inspection that watches every bolt on the assembly line shares first-hand experience: two months ago, one of his humanoid robots was damaged because a supplier forgot to put all screws in a leg joint. His takeaway is that AI-powered assembly-line inspection is extremely useful — a concrete data point that hardware supply chains still suffer from basic QC misses.
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