Atomic is building AI software that learns from both machines and skilled workers to make factory parts faster, cheaper, and better than either could alone. The company sees this as a chance to revive U.S. manufacturing, which peaked in the 1940s-60s before declining in the 70s and 80s.
Atomic's big plan is to learn from these machines and from skilled craftspeople by watching them work. Then it wants to use software and AI not just to mimic those skills, but to improve on them. It wants to make parts faster, cheaper, and better than even the most skilled human ever could. If it's able to pull this off, then perhaps the US can make a great manufacturing leap forward. And so the US used to make machines like this, or like a different era? No, they would make them like this for sure, going back way 40s, 50s, 60s. So it died out in the '70s and '80s? Yeah.
