Helicon is using robots for carbon fiber parts production. Source: Helicon Advanced composites offer strength and stiffness at low weight, but manufacturing them at scale remains slow, labor-intensive, and difficult to automate. Helicon Industries is building automated manufacturing systems designed to bring composites into high-volume production, starting with carbon fiber. The Los Angeles-based startup has emerged from stealth with $16 million in seed funding, led by AlleyCorp. Helicon aims to cut composite manufacturing lead times from six months or more down to two weeks. Co-founder went from autonomous systems to automated manufacturing Edmundo Sanz-Gadea, co-founder and chief technology officer of Helicon, built rockets and drones in his youth in Madrid. That led to a high school internship at the European…
Source: The Robot Report