Founder breaks down robotic actuator.from @fdotinc

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Is this thing? This is a self sensing actuator. Today's robots use these actuators to sense forces in increments of mouses or 50 grams. Mine sends forces in increments of one gram or paper clips. No you can see this, like, tiny square of better, which we call a foil, and that foil has pretty much a zig zag pattern of metal that runs an electric current through it. As that zig zag stretches out, that changes the current that's running through that circuit. You can see that in real tier, resolution of one or two grams in force. All the software that models train on rely on these physical sensing capabilities. I can sense forces 50 times more accurately than the Chinese actuators today. In the case of picking up an egg without cracking it, this would be very important. Yeah. Exactly. This is what the final thing looks like. The short wrist size, slightly longer elbow size, and then finally, the wider better also more pancake flatter shaped shoulder one. The first customers want around 50,000 in the next, like, two quarters. I'm designing these as drop in solutions no that they don't have to redesign anything. Each actuator can have up to 30 different components, magnets, PCB, controller boards, gearbox, electric motors, and I used to work at Apple in the product design department, material science. All of the WiFi and cellular that goes into and out of the iPhone is a result of composite material that we developed for that part. Kind of related to my background with smart materials that are also structural. So I'm redesigning the whole inside of the actuator from the housing components to the bolt better no that I can integrate the sensors naturally into the architecture, everything from the ground up, just like I did back at Apple. How do you feel about Founders, Inc? Awesome. The best. Day ones.