Startup Spotlight: Strive Robotics builds a verification layer between factory software and machines

Craig Cheney's MIT-trained team is connecting robotic work and verification directly to manufacturers' production systems.

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Strive is testing whether robotics can become the verified execution layer between factory software and physical production without requiring large upfront automation projects.

Illustration of a Strive Robotics industrial robotic arm with a specialized end effector interacting with a complex machined metal part.

Craig Cheney's Strive Robotics has begun deploying a manufacturing automation platform that executes factory work, checks the result and sends verified production data back into enterprise software. Its first deployment handles overnight CNC machine tending at Sjogren Industries under a robot-as-a-service contract, according to company materials reviewed by RuntimeWire.…

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