Because technology should maintain itself so humans can build civilisations.
Industrial Automata exists to build the missing layer of universal maintenance technology that current markets have failed to produce, following principles grounded in Universal Design philosophy.
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
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
