Manufacturing industrial

Advanced Metal Research

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

America does not just need more welders. It needs welding knowledge that can scale.

The American Welding Society projects 320,500 new welding professionals will be needed by 2029, with about 80,000 jobs to be filled annually from 2025 to 2029. More than 157,000 current welding professionals are approaching retirement. Welders are only a small share of the skilled-trades workforce, but welding accounts for an outsized share of projected capability demand.

The market calls it a labor shortage. AMR sees a learning bottleneck.

We are building American-made robotic welding cells that combine computer vision to provide real-time seam tracking and post-weld inspection to turn welding from a scarce manual process into a closed-loop manufacturing system that learns from every weld as it happens.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Gradient Robotics

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Angus Muffatti

Founder/CEO

+Last startup hit first $1m in 18 months & $10m val at last investment from largest aussie real estate group + 3 published ML & AI optimisation papers + Designed & built liquid bi-propellant rocket engines & test facility

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Stephen Lin

Founder

Founder at Advanced Metal Research. Previously at NASA working on spacewalks and planetary exploration. Built systems used by mission control for 19 spacewalks to date enabling real-time telemetry & monitoring of EVAs.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Location · source statedLos Angeles, CA, USA
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