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START pod: Ansel Dias, Founder & CEO, AutoFAB: “Building a distributed 3D-printing network. Local microfactories, one platform, zero inventory”
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- May 21, 2026
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Summary
Ansel Dias is using his robot factory to build more robot factories AutoFAB is a robotic desktop factory that prints, assembles, quality-checks, and packages hardware autonomously It’s already being used to manufacture more of its own robotic arms The insight behind it is simple: Prototyping is easy Production is the completely different ballgame - and that’s where hardware startups die Factories. QA. Packaging. Scaling production. That’s the bottleneck AutoFAB wants to eliminate The long-term vision: AutoFABs making more AutoFABs 🎙️ Ansel Dias, Founder & CEO, AutoFAB on Fondo START pod 00:18 AutoFAB is a robotic desktop factory 00:33 It prints things, then assembles them 00:41 It does quality checks and even packs shipping boxes 01:03 Putting hardware into production is extremely difficult 02:01 AutoFAB to make more AutoFABs 02:14 Growth will become geometric 02:37 Right now it's making more of its own robotic arms Check out autofab.net to learn more