Self replication is not the goal. The long term vision is an automated factory with a wide variety of processes that use AI for generative design / process feedback. So, basically, if you can envision it, it can get…
I work here. No grey goo, but lots of robots. My mental model for the long run goal is the Feed from Diamond Age.
Used to work in photonics. The star coupler portion is a Rotman lens, the whole thing is different (an AWG). It's used to spectrally separate an input (or in this case, inputs) across different outputs.
Atomic Machines is building a manufacturing platform for a new class of micromachines, here in the Bay Area. We have open roles in SW/EE/ME. My team is hiring for this role, ONSITE in Emeryville, CA:…
Aside from cranking the math, here's how I think about it: in the far field of a small aperture, the electric field has spherical phase (think expanding circles), and the field distribution is the Fourier transform of…
IIRC, it took about 50~100 W from a power supply to beam ~2.5W to a target antenna array, but that was fairly early on, so it's likely better now.
I worked on this project a few years back, on the power transmission bits. It's pretty cool from the engineering side; the mechanics need to be very light, and unfold into a large area. The beaming part is just a large…
Self replication is not the goal. The long term vision is an automated factory with a wide variety of processes that use AI for generative design / process feedback. So, basically, if you can envision it, it can get…
I work here. No grey goo, but lots of robots. My mental model for the long run goal is the Feed from Diamond Age.
Used to work in photonics. The star coupler portion is a Rotman lens, the whole thing is different (an AWG). It's used to spectrally separate an input (or in this case, inputs) across different outputs.
Atomic Machines is building a manufacturing platform for a new class of micromachines, here in the Bay Area. We have open roles in SW/EE/ME. My team is hiring for this role, ONSITE in Emeryville, CA:…
Aside from cranking the math, here's how I think about it: in the far field of a small aperture, the electric field has spherical phase (think expanding circles), and the field distribution is the Fourier transform of…
IIRC, it took about 50~100 W from a power supply to beam ~2.5W to a target antenna array, but that was fairly early on, so it's likely better now.
I worked on this project a few years back, on the power transmission bits. It's pretty cool from the engineering side; the mechanics need to be very light, and unfold into a large area. The beaming part is just a large…