大公司在过去几年里已经认识到，与其仅仅将现有工作方式自动化，不如从头重新思考流程，这样能让 AI 智能体发挥更大作用。制造商也开始吸取同样的教训，采用由物理 AI 模型驱动的机器人。
Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch, rather than merely automating the existing ways of doing things. Manufacturers are beginning to learn the same lesson as they adopt robots powered by physical AI models.
其中一家制造商是成立不到一年的初创公司 Foundry，该公司独家向《The Information》透露，已完成总额 1 亿美元的新一轮融资，用于建设自动化工厂。Marlinspike Partners 领投这轮 A 轮融资，曾领投 Foundry 种子轮的 Khosla Ventures 也参投了本轮。
One such manufacturer is Foundry, a startup that was founded less than a year ago, which has raised a new round totaling $100 million to build automated factories, the company told The Information exclusively. Marlinspike Partners led the Series A funding round, and Khosla Ventures, which led Foundry’s seed round, participated.
Foundry 正在围绕 AI 驱动的机器人设计工厂，而不是将机器人塞进现有生产线。这些机器人被组织成工作单元，专注于布线、紧固和精准定位等技能，而非生产某一特定产品。
Foundry is designing its factories around AI-powered robots, rather than slotting robots into existing production lines. Those robots are organized into work cells that focus on skills such as cabling, fastening and precise placement, rather than making a particular product.