Project / Industrial Automata
Industrial
Automata
Because technology should maintain itself so humans can build civilisations.
Mission
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.
01 / Project
industrial-automata.com
Industrial Automata is a project at industrial-automata.com. This page collects the research behind it.
02 / Outcomes
What success looks like
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Equipment lasts decades longer because repair is accessible
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Technicians build careers on universal skills, not vendor certifications
03
Manufacturers compete on quality, not lock-in
04
Open standards become infrastructure
05
Our company becomes unnecessary because the principles are universal
03 / Writing
Writing
Robot Learns the World as Motion
Universal Maintenance Design: Making Infrastructure R2-Accessible
How Designing for Robots Creates Better Systems for Everyone Part 3 of the R2 Astromech Project series In the previous posts, I explained why…
The Death of the Helper Droid: How Modular Design Philosophy Gave Way to Vendor Lock-in
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…
Teaching an Old Droid New Tricks: Why I’m Building an R2-D2 inspired ‘droid
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…
GitHub repo: R2 project code
04 / Connections