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Warfare is shifting from $100M fighter jets to $40K drones. The U.S. needs manufacturing that can match that cost curve, fast.
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Machina Labs
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Machina Labs
@MachinaLabs_
Unlocking Manufacturing through Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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For decades, defense manufacturing has treated the Iron Triangle (cost, speed, capability) as a law of nature. Pick one. Maybe two if you’re lucky. I’ve always had a problem with that. The entire point of technology is to let you have your cake and eat it too. That’s what
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- Requirements change. Payloads change. Missions change. The factory needs to keep up. Machina and @nTopology are demonstrating a faster path from mission requirements to real metal hardware for defense airframes. nTop enables the design. Machina is the Factory.For more on this collaboration with nTop ––>
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Traditional sheet metal fabrication needs custom dies for every geometry. Tooling runs weeks to months, and one design change scraps it. We built a Class 3 UAV airframe with @MachinaLabs_ using zero hard tooling. @nTopology and @MachinaLabs_ are at @reindsummit in Detroit,
00:00 - How do we build 1,000 more companies like SpaceX, and do it faster? Tomorrow morning at the Reindustrialize Summit, Machina CEO @EdwardMehr will moderate a conversation with @jimbelosic of @sendcutsend and @billythalheimer of @regentcraft on how America and its allies can scale
- Machina Labs repostedMy plan was to stay in the factory and work. Then someone offered me a microphone. See you at @reindsummit. Look for the drone at my talks and the @nTopology booth.
Next week at @reindsummit in Detroit, Machina CEO @EdwardMehr will present Manufacturing First Primes: The New Integrator. The next era of defense production needs more than new platforms. It needs a programmable manufacturing layer that helps more teams move from intent to - Machina Labs reposted
📢 New Episode Alert! This week, I chatted to Edward Mehr (@EdwardMehr) from @MachinaLabs_ about their RoboCraftsman that shapes complex metal parts for the aerospace, defence, and automotive industries.
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Speaker Announcement: @EdwardMehr Ed will be joining us from @MachinaLabs_. Rebuilding metal manufacturing around AI and robots instead of fixed tooling, forming aerospace- and defense-grade parts straight from a digital design, no molds or dies. → Its RoboCraftsman platform
00:00 - What happens when advanced manufacturing no longer requires dedicated tooling? Complex metal structures move directly from digital design to formed metal. The future won't be defined by a handful of manufacturers. It will be defined by flexible, distributed factories that make
00:00 - Hypothetically, if we opened a merch store… what custom metal products would you want to see in it? Asking for absolutely no reason. 👀You don’t have to live in a pod. You don’t have to eat bugs. You certainly don’t have to drive NPC Edition™ car.
- Next week at @reindsummit in Detroit, Machina CEO @EdwardMehr will present Manufacturing First Primes: The New Integrator. The next era of defense production needs more than new platforms. It needs a programmable manufacturing layer that helps more teams move from intent to
- Machina Labs repostedWe evaluated 11 structural variants and ran 15 CFD cases for a Class 3 UAV airframe from one parametric model before a single part was formed. No hard tooling. Built with @MachinaLabs_. Both teams at @reindsummit in Detroit, June 16-17. Come find us: hubs.li/Q04kzKRF0
- Machina Labs repostedHear ungodly noises. Came to shop to Investigate. Found Justin had already completed the root cause analysis.
