Advanced Metal Research
Machine intelligence for American Welding
About Advanced Metal Research
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 details
Funding
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
Founders
Stephen Lin
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.
Angus Muffatti
Prior startup reached $1M ARR in 18 months with $10M valuation; 3 published ML & AI optimization papers; designed and built liquid bi-propellant rocket engines. Previously COO at Agtuary and R&D Engineer in aerospace.
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Julian Fried
Former welding foreman in Eastern PA; brings hands-on domain expertise in welding to a deep-tech manufacturing startup.
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