Local Startup AMBOTS Receives $1 Million Small Business Award



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An autonomous 3-D printer at work.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – AMBOTS, a local startup company developing autonomous manufacturing technology, is having a pretty good year. Last summer, the company was featured on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca. More recently, it was awarded a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Award from the National Science Foundation.

AMBOT’s technology utilizes a “swarm” of autonomous robots that can work in concert to print and assemble a range of products on demand — potentially anything from a table to an airplane, so long as it has a…

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