Foundry has acquired @AveaRobotics. @aryind_ and @vikramvadrevu are deeply technical and customer-obsessed and working together (as an early customer) was easy. Data collection and inference at scale power our factories and that makes Avea a natural fit. Welcome aboard!

Our CEO @adarshkulkarni joined the "AI in the Physical World" panel at @AnthropicAI Founders House with @kalinowski007, @kevinmpeterson1 & Adrien Gaidon. His take: deployment is the whole game. Physical AI is improving fast, but it still doesn't understand manufacturing.

Factories are still held together by human coordination and traditional, hard-coded assembly workflows. That’s the bottleneck. @adarshkulkarni and @mavolpi discuss the future of autonomous manufacturing, robotics foundation models, and why scaling assembly is one of the hardest problems in the real world. youtube.com/watch?v=TiEDulsF…

Foundry Robotics opening night ⚙️ 21 days before we were taking a sledgehammer to the wall and opening up the adjacent space. Now it’s a factory floor full of investors, partners, customers, researchers, operators, and future teammates. A lot more to come.

Last weekend, the Foundry team headed to Napa for our first offsite. Most days, we’re focused on rebuilding American manufacturing and building hard technology — but great companies are also built through trust, friendship, and shared experiences outside of work. 🍷⚙️

American manufacturing is one of the hardest problems of our generation. We're here to solve it. Today we announce $19M in seed funding, backed by @khoslaventures, @hanabicapital, @redglassvc, @ZeroShotFund, and all our other incredible investors. AI-first. Software-defined. Just getting started. We're hiring.