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How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China

Core Memory Kylie Robison

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  • @corememory @corememory on x
    Your robotic coworkers and house helpers will almost certainly be made in China unless the US figures out how to build cheap actuators. Here's our big and wonderful story on the massive industrial issue people have been ignoring. https://www.corememory.com/...
  • @ashleevance Ashlee Vance on x
    We broke the most important story on manufacturing in America today and the most important health story. That is breadth Actuators - https://www.corememory.com/... Possible end to liver disease and true organ rejuvenation - https://www.corememory.com/...
  • @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
    my magnum opus: the tiny part inside every robot and drone that america can't make anymore — and the two startups betting opposite ways on how to fix it [image]
  • @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
    every company becomes an actuator manufacturer if you wait long enough [image]
  • Ashlee Vance Ashlee Vance on linkedin
    Our big and wonderful story on actuators - the devices that the US must learn how to build if its wants an industrial future. …