Neri Oxman

Can they do this, quote unquote, automatically without a kind of a top-down approach?

brute force policy-based method that's authored and deployed by humans.

And so this work really relates to that interface with the natural world.

And then there's a second area in the company which focuses on growing products.

And here we're focusing on a single product that starts from CO2.

It becomes a product, it's consumed, it's used, it's worn by a human, and then it goes back to the soil and it grows an edible fruit plant.

Yeah, it starts from CO2 and it ends with something that you can like literally eat.

So the world's first entirely biodegradable, biocompatible, biorenewable product.

Yes, either using plant matter or using bacteria.

But we are really looking at carbon recycling technologies that start with methane or wastewater and end with this wonderful reincarnation of a thing that doesn't need to end up in a composting site, but can just be thrown into the ground and grow olive and find peace there.

And there's a lot of textile-based work out there that is focused on one single element in this long chain, like, oh, let's create, you know, leather out of mycelium, or let's create textile out of cellulose.

But then it stops there, and you get to assembling the shoe or the wearable, and you...

And you need a little bit of glue and you need a little bit of this material and a little bit of that material to make it water resistant.

And then it's over.

So that's one thing that we're trying to solve for is how to create a product that is materially, computationally, robotically novel and goes through all of these phases from the creation, from this carbon process.

recycling technology to the product, to literally how do you think about, you know, reinventing an industry that is focused on assembly and putting things together and using humans to do that?

Can that, you know, can that happen just using robots and microbes and that's it?

And the factory is great too.

I'm very, very excited.

In October, we'll share first renditions of some of this work.