Advanced Metal Research
Advanced Metal Research is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About Advanced Metal Research
Summary
Advanced Metal Research builds robotic welding cells for American manufacturers, combining computer vision with real-time seam tracking and post-weld inspection to automate the full weld cycle. The system replaces skilled manual welders on the shop floor, capturing and applying weld knowledge with each pass rather than depending on a retiring expert workforce. Each cell functions as a closed-loop system that improves continuously from production data.
Go-to-market
Target customers are domestic manufacturers facing skilled-welder shortages, sold as a complete robotic cell rather than a software add-on to existing equipment.
From the Y Combinator listing
Machine intelligence for American Welding
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.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
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