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America’s manufacturing gap isn’t machining capacity. It’s capital for greenfield product factories. We financed 2,300 plant projects in WWII. Here’s how recovered federal fraud could fund a New Industrial Deal for rural America and its young workers.
This is the modern day equivalent to being in a Myspace Top 8.
393 Days ago I started this list that now has 144 real people on it
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American Actuators. No compromises. Not assembled, made here.
Listen, you don't build millions of actuators waiting for a term sheet. You bootstrap it and go until you physically run out of money. We're two years in and not going anywhere anytime soon. The robotics market hasn't even started yet. We're at the Hit Clips stage of iPhones.
Why are we pretending that "owning the full stack of hardware" is capital efficient in robotics startups? It's not. Actuators should work off-the-shelf so your team can focus on controls and applications.
It's how we get to abundant physical AI systems.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but American capital is moving too slow to invest in the machines needed to beat our largest adversaries. We don't need IP capture, we need CNC machines.
McMaster ships your order before you are finished thinking you need it. That's how good they are.
I mean, don't listen to us. Listen to Ryan. Generational wealth will be made by those who make for the makers of the next century. Component suppliers.
Unitree is subsidized manufacturing. That specifically means that government policies and government money are fueling their ability to take raw material and turn it into functional technology.
Shipped units above all else.
US equivalents try to figure out how to get custom bearings from Shenzhen to eek out 1% optimization of thermal load while Unitree and other competitors ship thousands of robots inside of domestic Chinese markets.
We're overly reliant and it's an economic, security, and sovereignty risk.
Fund companies buying machines, not just IP.
Stop pretending we can't catch up, we can.
Start betting on the American builders who know how to make things.
If your bill of materials is reliant on an adversary, you are going to have a very bad time when the adversary is adversarial.
This is what happens when you let the Brooklynites build bots. We're honestly here for it. Can't wait for Voxel to fetch us a bagel and yell "I'm walkin' here" at the dogs.
Engineering Voxel means crafting character into the machine.
Inside Tuesday Labs, world-class engineers team up with legendary Hollywood animators to shape how he moves, communicates, and lives in the home.
The team drew from their favorite characters in film and literature, human-robot-interaction research, etiquette guides, and their own experience building robots to create Voxel.
Inside the making of Voxel.











