{"id":15949,"date":"2026-08-18T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:05","slug":"former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-robotic-factory-for-making-steel-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15949","title":{"rendered":"Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Jeremy Hsu<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 17, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots. Their immediate goal involves establishing a prototype factory that can automate most of the steel fabrication process for crucial infrastructure components by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/1872.ai\/\">called 1872<\/a>, officially launched on July 22 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Factory One facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company is initially focused on automating the manufacturing of steel skids\u2014rectangular steel frames that can provide a moveable foundation for modular buildings\u2014with the goal of supplying customers who are developing AI data centers or small modular nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re building towards autonomy, but we&#8217;re not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy,\u201d Dan Summers, CEO of 1872, told Ars. \u201cWe may achieve 80 percent autonomous operations, and we may decide that it makes sense to stop there because there&#8217;s just diminishing returns to go to full 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-robotic-factory-for-making-steel-parts\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-robotic-factory-for-making-steel-parts\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-robotic-factory-for-making-steel-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hsu &bull; August 17, 2026 Three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots. Their immediate goal involves establishing a prototype factory that can automate most of the steel fabrication process for crucial infrastructure components by 2027. The startup, called 1872,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15949\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}