Resolved Motion

America’s manufacturing gap isn’t machining capacity. It’s capital for greenfield product factories. We financed 2,300 plant projects in WWII. Here’s how recovered federal fraud could fund a New Industrial Deal for rural America and its young workers.

The fully loaded cost of Chinese actuators after duties and shipping is what matters. Not the $300 actuator list price. The cost after ~$120 import duties (37.5% to 41.5%) and ~$50 international shipping if you order just one. You need 30 per humanoid. Design American.

Turns out, we are going to win.

Today’s Section 232 finding names humanoid, quadruped, and autonomous ground robots as defense-critical, and says U.S. component capacity falls short. That gap is why we build dual-use actuators in Upstate New York. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…

This is the modern day equivalent to being in a Myspace Top 8.

American Actuators. No compromises. Not assembled, made here.

Why are we pretending that "owning the full stack of hardware" is capital efficient in robotics startups? It's not. Actuators should work off-the-shelf so your team can focus on controls and applications. It's how we get to abundant physical AI systems.

If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but American capital is moving too slow to invest in the machines needed to beat our largest adversaries. We don't need IP capture, we need CNC machines.

McMaster ships your order before you are finished thinking you need it. That's how good they are.

I mean, don't listen to us. Listen to Ryan. Generational wealth will be made by those who make for the makers of the next century. Component suppliers.

As American as Apple Pie. 🦾 🇺🇸 🦾 (Tastes like WD-40 though. We are going to win.)

Unitree is subsidized manufacturing. That specifically means that government policies and government money are fueling their ability to take raw material and turn it into functional technology. Shipped units above all else. US equivalents try to figure out how to get custom bearings from Shenzhen to eek out 1% optimization of thermal load while Unitree and other competitors ship thousands of robots inside of domestic Chinese markets. We're overly reliant and it's an economic, security, and sovereignty risk. Fund companies buying machines, not just IP. Stop pretending we can't catch up, we can. Start betting on the American builders who know how to make things. If your bill of materials is reliant on an adversary, you are going to have a very bad time when the adversary is adversarial.

I got 99 problems and today it was nitriding. That's the lyric right?

This is what happens when you let the Brooklynites build bots. We're honestly here for it. Can't wait for Voxel to fetch us a bagel and yell "I'm walkin' here" at the dogs.