Chapter 67 You're Making This Hard for Me

Audrey showed up at Blucean the next morning with a calm, unreadable face and threw herself straight into work. It was tense in the conference room. Audrey, Hayden, and Otto sat around the table. The latest schematics for the next-gen robot's core parts were spread out between them. "The core chip iteration is complete. The next step is moving into full production," Audrey said firmly, her voice cutting through the silence. She pointed to a section circled in red on the printout. "This round's precision standards are higher than any of the previous generations." This was their make-or-break moment, so they couldn't afford a single error. Otto nodded. "Right. We're talking micrometer-level tolerances. That's a serious test for any production line." Hayden frowned. He didn't need the math to grasp the stakes. "Can the partner factory do that?" Audrey shook her head. "Their equipment and production process can't meet this standard. We'll have to renegotiate with them." She glanced