Because technology should maintain itself so humans can build civilisations.
🤖 [Determined R2 beeping]
Industrial Automata exists to build the missing layer of universal maintenance technology that current markets have failed to produce, following principles reverse-engineered from the fictional Industrial Automaton corporation and grounded in Universal Design philosophy.
We succeed when:
Equipment lasts decades longer because repair is accessible Technicians build careers on universal skills, not vendor certifications Manufacturers compete on quality, not lock-in Open standards become infrastructure Our company becomes unnecessary because the principles are universal
Or: How Star Wars Reveals Everything Wrong With Modern Technology Part 1 of a series on astromech droids, universal design, and the technologies we’ve lost and/or failed to develop. I’m sitting in my workshop come sitting room with an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, (Update: now im using a Raspberry Pi) a tangle of cables, and an… Read more: Teaching an Old Droid New Tricks: Why I’m Building an R2-D2 inspired ‘droid
A History of Lost Technologies and Changed Incentives Part 2 of the R2 Astromech Project series In the first post, I explained why I’m building an R2-D2 style helper droid—a universal translator for machines that can diagnose infrastructure, speak multiple protocols, and tell you what’s actually wrong in plain language. But that raises an obvious… Read more: The Death of the Helper Droid: How Modular Design Philosophy Gave Way to Vendor Lock-in
How Designing for Robots Creates Better Systems for Everyone Part 3 of the R2 Astromech Project series In the previous posts, I explained why we need helper droids and traced how we lost the modular design philosophy that would have made them possible. Now I want to introduce a concept that could actually change how… Read more: Universal Maintenance Design: Making Infrastructure R2-Accessible
