Jim Kim, general partner of Builders VC, talks about investing in industrial innovation with Amy Feldman of Forbes at the Under 30 Summit Forbes MediaIn the common wisdom, there’s a big divide between manufacturing and Silicon Valley. But technology is changing the way that companies make things as factories become increasingly digitized and reliant on robotics and automation. The products themselves are changing, too, as new processes like 3-D printing take hold, allowing more efficient, lighter-weight designs and faster, less expensive prototyping and production. At the manufacturing and robotics panel of Forbes Under 30 Summit today in Boston, entrepreneurs and investors spoke about the changes afoot in manufacturing and what it means for the future. said Patrick Sobalvaro, chief executive of Veo Robotics, an industrial robotics company.

Source: Forbes October 01, 2018 22:47 UTC