When a critical component fails on a naval vessel deployed far from home, the supply chain has two options: wait weeks for a part to be shipped, or pay a premium to a local machine shop. Either way, operational readiness suffers and costs escalate. It is exactly this kind of structural vulnerability that Rivelin Robotics, a Sheffield-based start-up, set out to fix. Founded by Robert Bush in 2018, Rivelin identified a bottleneck that exists across every manufacturing sector but is especially damaging in defence: the hand-finishing of manufactured parts. Every metal, polymer or ceramic component coming off a production line,…
