Robotics Startups Keep Failing at Manufacturing. Here's Help.

The Robot Report has released a new eBook focused on Design for Manufacturing (DFM) — the unglamorous but critical discipline that separates working prototypes from robots people can actually buy.

DFM is the process of engineering a product so it can be manufactured at scale without blowing budgets or timelines. That means obsessing over cost, complexity, and material choices long before production begins.

The core problem is well-known in robotics: startups sprint from concept to prototype, then hit a wall when they try to scale. Rushing to market without proper DFM planning leads to products that are expensive, unreliable, or both.

The eBook walks developers through the journey from idea to pilot to commercially viable hardware. For robotics companies trying to cross the dreaded "valley of death" between prototype and production, this is required reading.