A hardware design lab
A small lab for the hardest problems in hardware, robotics and autonomy.
Our process: Model, Optimise, Build
Model Aerospace
Starship, from orbit to splashdownEvery force on the ship computed live from its shape, through the belly flop, the flip and the landing burn.
Unofficial study, built from public figures. Not affiliated with or endorsed by SpaceX.
Worked with
Recent builds
A robot that carves stone, a drone that plays laser tag, an aircraft built around one person. Some of what the lab has been working on lately.
01 · Industrial robotics
The digital stonemason
For most of history, the buildings people loved most were made of stone and finished by hand. Then stone became too slow and too costly, and building turned to concrete and glass. Gondor wants to bring it back. We are working with them to build the machine that makes it possible: a robot that mills stone, changes its own tools and checks its own work, so a master carver’s skill can be captured once and repeated at the scale of a building. Not to replace the craft, but to let it build again.
The cell
A six axis industrial arm in the works itself, set up to mill stone where the blocks are cut.