Industrial AI systems that automate entire physical-world industries
Build industry-specific systems combining software, sensors, robotics, and AI to automate the operations of sectors where everything is grown, mined, manufactured, or moved. The company is conceived as an OEM making industrial, atoms-based computers for particular industries.
physical B2B Service / Consulting / Agency
From a16z — Travis Kalanick on Building Atoms After Uber at 07:15
Problem: Physical industries still have substantial opportunities for automation, requiring coordinated control of manufacturing, storage, transportation, and operations rather than software alone.
For: Operators of industrial sectors such as food production, mining, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and real estate.
Examples
- Atoms: described as building industrial AI systems for food, mining, and transport.
Other takes on Industrial technology operations
- A vertically integrated, software-first critical-minerals mining and refining company
- Broken iPhone-screen recycling and remanufacturing business
- Modular electrical enclosures and control boxes manufacturing
- Automated mining systems for safer, more productive mines
- Specialized autonomous machines for industrial-scale transport
- Automated food production and delivery using a food computer