00:14Bei den Vorhaben, wenn jemand auf den Weg zum Sitzung nehmen,
00:16er die größten ist, dass wir doch so sagen die Protokts sind.
00:19Und irgendwann sehen wir irgendwie ein volles Protokapier,
00:22Und das ist wirklich warum Protokapier Operations exist –
00:26We are putting a level of scaled rigor into a prototype process.
00:30And that's another reason that allows us to do prototypes at scale, not just one or two.
00:37Prototype Operations help support research and development builds
00:41and are a suite of services that can help translate everyone's designs into real products
00:46across the whole spectrum of being able to build it, test it, support it, and maintain it,
00:51all within a prototype space.
00:59We own our own shop because we get so many no-quotes.
01:03Nobody can do what we do.
01:05Every time we try to get something done outside, they say we can't do it.
01:09We work with such tight tolerances that it's very hard to get work done outside the shop.
01:16We're really trying to accelerate velocity of technology development.
01:20So having our own precision shop allows us to both have the engineering team come down to the machine shop,
01:27interact, make adjustments really fast, and then produce the parts at extremely high quality and extreme speed.
01:37Machining parts for robots that don't exist yet varies from production because you're developing the machining method.
01:44You know, you're doing the first pass on the design for manufacturing where, you know, tool selection is really important
01:52to creating the part efficiently and cost-effectively.
01:57So here at Boston Dynamics, we do some very niche things to make the robot go.
02:03So we do a lot of gear cutting, and that's very, very specific in the industry.
02:07So you don't see it in many places, and you really get to explore it here.
02:12We're basically the candy store for 600 engineers.
02:17So every time they need something, we have to come up with a way to make it.
02:20So every machine you see here is new.
02:24We've gotten more advanced year after year.
02:27We get to use a lot of different specialized equipment and tools.
02:31I could name an endless number that are really awesome where I would dream of having this at any other
02:38place I've ever worked.
02:39And here we just casually have it, which is phenomenal.
02:41Our precision shop downstairs has state-of-the-art machining equipment on the line.
02:46We've got robot arms integrated into our assembly process.
02:50And a lot of this stuff is really phenomenal.
02:52But I think the coolest part of all of it is the collection of our capabilities and that we're constantly
02:58striving to add more and more capability.
03:00A year ago, building one robot was quite an event.
03:04So over the past year, we've really scaled up.
03:08And now to build one robot, it's about a day.
03:11And next year, it's going to be about an hour.
03:13And then years after that, it's going to be minutes.
03:15The feedback loop is pretty brutal, but in a good way.
03:18You can go from having an idea Monday to being able to implement it by the end of the week.
03:23This spans across design, assembly processes, just general organizational processes.
03:28We're allowed to rapidly iterate and find issues really, really fast and fail fast.
03:32And it allows us to be able to solve the right problems really quickly.
03:41They know we can make anything, so they're going to try anything.
03:45So when engineers come in here and they see our capacities and see what we can do, they start really
03:51thinking outside the box.
03:52And that's what this whole company is about, thinking outside the box.
03:56I'd say the biggest game changer from general manufacturing is that here at Boston Dynamics, you get end-to-end
04:03ownership of a project.
04:04So you start with, you know, working with the engineers, trying to figure out the best way to approach any
04:10given project.
04:12And really develop it from start to finish.
04:14When you get to take one of the parts that you made and put it in a robot, it is
04:18awesome.
04:19One of the big differences between here and general machining in the, you know, most of the world is, you
04:24know, you're just making a part because it came down the order.
04:27And you have no idea what it goes through, you know.
04:28Maybe somebody tells you it goes through a ship far away that you'll never be on.
04:33But, you know, here we'll make a part.
04:35And then in some cases, that part's assembled the same day or next day.
04:38And then you can go upstairs into the humanoid department and, you know, watch it move.
04:43And it's really cool.
04:45You want to do something different every day?
04:47You want to have fun at work?
04:49It's a great place to work.
04:51Benefits are great.
04:52People are great.
04:53We work with the engineers.
04:55And that's totally different.
04:56You never get to work with engineers anywhere else that I've been or seen where you can talk to the
05:01engineer if you don't like what they did.
05:03And they come back and they help you out.
05:05That's a different world here.
05:07We get a lot of pressure, but we put a lot of pressure on ourselves.
05:10We get to do some of the coolest things in the world, in my opinion.
05:13We get to build robots.
05:14A lot of people get numb to it because you see robots walking around here every day.
05:18But it's extremely rewarding to be able to contribute to assembling something that you see operate either in a factory,
05:25you see it do a backflip on the Atlas Lab.
05:28It takes an army of people to design and build and test these highly integrated systems.
05:34And I think it's just fun to be a part of.
05:45And I think it's just fun to be a part of.
