Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code
Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working micro-machines straight from code. The Bay Area start-up announced the launch on Wednesday. Its first product is a power switch for AI data centres.
Founder and chief executive Jeff Holden joined Amazon as its tenth engineer and built Amazon Prime. He then became Uber’s first chief product officer. There, he set up its self-driving, AI labs and air-taxi units, according to the company.
“3D printing made shapes programmable: any geometry, straight from a file. We’re making machines programmable,” Holden said.
What the Matter Compiler does
The company calls its system the Matter Compiler, after a machine in Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age. It says code alone decides which device the system builds. The machines it makes have moving parts, several materials and features down to single-digit microns. No moulds, masks...
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