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Lam Research launches collaborative robots to optimize critical maintenance in chip factories
Lam Research introduced Dextro, the chip industry’s first collaborative robot designed to optimize maintenance in chip factories.
“When manufacturing equipment requires maintenance, the work must be done quickly and efficiently to avoid extended tool downtime and wasted cost,” said Young Ju Kim, vice president and head of the Memory Etch Technology Team at Samsung Electronics, in a statement. Dextro tightens vacuum-sealing, high-precision bolts to exact specifications, relieving fab engineers of a repetitive task that has up to a 5% error rate when done manually. “With the enormous increase in demand that AI is bringing to the semiconductor market, it’s critical for chipmakers to keep all their manufacturing equipment working as efficiently as possible to minimize downtime,” noted Bob O’Donnell, president of TECHnalysis Research, in a statement.
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