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Bad Boy Mowers: growing with robots | ABB


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17 April 2014



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A resurgence in home-grown manufacturing is now taking root in the United States, largely driven by advanced technology. Through a combination of determinati…

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Bad Boy Mowers reached the limit of what they could produce manually years ago, at about ten units per day.  With the help of a few carefully selected robots, they now turn out two hundred per day.

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