In this installment of CW Talks, CompositesWorld speaks with Francesco De Stefano, CEO and co-founder of Caracol (Milan, Italy), about the company's proprietary robotic large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) platform for composites. What began as a research effort to combine the flexibility of additive manufacturing (AM) with the scale of robotics has evolved into a distributed production model now serving aerospace, maritime, transportation and defense markets. De Stefano discusses how Caracol moved from service bureau to production platform provider, why pellet-based composites printing changes the economics of large parts, and how AI and machine learning are being embedded into the manufacturing process itself.