Machina Labs

Machina Labs is an aerospace-focused startup that raised roughly $32 million to develop AI-guided robotic arms that shape sheet metal through an incremental forming process, effectively 'sculpting' parts directly rather than relying on the expensive, single-purpose dies and tooling that traditional metal stamping requires. That die-less approach lets the company produce complex aerospace and defense components on demand, compressing lead times from months down to days and making small production runs economically viable in an industry usually built around large, fixed tooling investments.