Her last position entailed overseeing the assembly of the first-generation Apple Watch at contract manufacturer sites. "It's a mass of humanity, with basic rudimentary tools to do the assembly process," Shedletsky said. Shedletsky, along with another former Apple engineer, Samuel Weiss, have founded manufacturing startup Instrumental. Instrumental has begun deploying machine learning techniques to pick out any manufacturing anomalies and track where things go wrong. When the company first launched in 2015, Shedletsky and Weiss planned to build robots for fully automated factories of the future.

Source: Forbes June 22, 2017 17:03 UTC