Toyota Research Institute

I think tool and die, in particular, as we're moving more and more towards a machining model and data model on how we collect data and then use that data as a starting point for die maintenance, there's going to be a natural capability there.

And, you know, one of the places that we've had really significant success for in-house developed AI programs in partnership between manufacturing the Toyota Research Institute has been in regard to vision AI.

And we're having some great success with vision AI inspection in our stamping shop to look at stamping defects on the panels.

And I think there's going to be a natural tie-in for that to go back to the tooling itself as the technology continues to develop.

So in the past few years, we've seen a lot of amazing recent advances in autonomous robots, building on years of power work.

So these are some recent demos from Google, Toyota Research Institute, and also some of my lab mates.

And so it's really exciting.

Now we have robots that can do tasks that would be helpful in many settings.

And then from there I went to Commonwealth Fusion Systems and I worked on basically the R&D team, uh, that would be de-risking subcomponents for the fusion reactor.

And then I went and worked on ion thrusters, and then I went to Toyota Research Institute and worked on robotics.

So it kind of like, it tittered and tattered around a lot of different hardware industries.

Uh, but the, kind of the lifeline of all of them was that I really liked building physical products and really understanding, um, the integrated systems and how they work together and what the risks are, and then also got completely infatuated, uh, with the process of what it takes to build something from absolutely nothing and kinda cater those relationships in your supply chain and kind of build it up, which basically ended up with me starting my own company, uh, so that I could do that more, uh, with founders in a more involved manner than just an employee with a specific job title.