Ed Mehr on Transforming Manufacturing at Machina Labs

Quality & testIntegrated robotic scanning and QC softwaredigital twin and data package for every single part

Robots scan parts after manufacturing to generate a QC report and digital twin for every single part, which is fed back into the 'Architect' software to improve future production recipes, creating a closed-loop quality control system.

“Once the part is done. The robot itself scans it and knows what it did, so it creates a QC report, but that QC report can be taken back to that architect software … and now make modifications to maybe improve the part … Here's another set of instructions you can run on your next batch to make these parts slightly better.”

Engineering & simulationRoboCraftsman robotic platform with 152-channel sensors152 channels of sensor data every 4 milliseconds

The system uses high-frequency sensor feedback (152 channels every 4ms) to monitor material response during deformation, allowing the AI to dynamically adjust robot movements in real-time rather than following static G-code, enabling adaptive sheet forming.

“Then the robo craftsman starts into operation and and it works with our online software that every 4 millisecond looks at what happened. How did the robots do, how did the material react to it? And based on the sensor inputs, they have 152 channels, the sensor data that comes every 4 millisecond. It makes modifications to those instructions…”