w reporter emily gardena visited a startup to find out how they're adjusting good list. drop tech favorable to x, produce a smart flu shots for restaurants. but to perform even basic tasks like this, robots need to be very smart. the brains of the operation are hidden inside here. tiny semiconductor chips. a lot of this robots control system has a full set of semiconductors that back, but the global chip shortage is causing problems. for developers. we've had to gower the internet to find the last few components that were for sale or completely change our designs to, to use parts which we are able to find. we started buying used components which was something that we hadn't ever done before. semiconductors are crucial to new technologies. the chips are assembled on 2 small green printed circuit boards, short p c, b. the circuit boards are usually manufactured in asia, but the global shortage means companies must find other solutions. so this is a raw or that comes in from overseas that decks design on it. you see there's some spaces that are missing and those would be wh