regolith
: material shaped by constant impact; fragmented, recombined, and refined over time into something stronger than its origins.
Regolith is a research and engineering effort focused on intelligent physical systems for autonomous industry.
We study how materials, energy, sensing, memory, and computation can be combined to create infrastructure capable of operating with minimal human intervention in extreme environments. The Moon is the hardest test case.
It is an extreme manufacturing environment defined by vacuum, radiation, abrasive dust, limited maintenance, and constrained energy resources.
The future of lunar industry depends on our ability to couple energy, materials, and autonomous systems into a unified industrial process.
Essays
- Metallurgy for a Vacuum World
How do we transform oxides into useful materials?
- Energy for a Vacuum World
How do we power industrial civilization?
- Memory for a Vacuum World
How do systems remember?
- Trust for Autonomous Systems
How do systems know what is true?
- Control for Autonomous Systems
How do systems act?
Hiring
We are interested in people who think deeply about materials, energy, computation, and autonomy.
If our essays resonate with you, reach out: katiechai21 [at] icloud [dot] com