They're Reimagining How to Build Anything | Hadrian

Industrial power is the base of any great civilization and Hadrian is building the future of manufacturing in America. Episode 32 of S³ features Hadrian.
0:00 Make manufacturing great again
2:41 Their current robots
5:00 The software problem
7:09 New robot
7:50 Time to build
9:28 My thoughts + wild week
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Tony Coffman

[@YaMumsSpecialFriend]

Great to see an Aussie doing his bit for America.😊

[@Tottorul]

I will leave your upvote at 69

[@hauptuhrdotnetblog6700]

@@HMuny55it's the one thing that can save us.

[@defective6811]

makes him an amazing american

[@JigilJigil]

Great to see there are still people who care about manufacturing.

[@Mfgguy]

There are many of us, a lot more than you might think. We are just behind on PR.

[@Hippida]

Yes, this is brilliant. Such a great way to restart US manufacturing 2.0

[@NoLoseJustLearn]

It’s literally one of the most talked about things in US politics today lol I think a lot of people care about it.

[@captiverust]

@eblman5218 California did $395bn in manufacturing in 2022, up $75bn from the year before. Texas saw a $15bn decrease those same years--and Texas saw almost a 1m increase in people. These numbers come from NAM who would have absolutely no incentive to underestimate economic output numbers.

[@randotemp7353]

@eblman5218China is not going anywhere in terms of manufacturing. Also California itself is a major economy and manufacturing state within the US.

[@moldyzucchinis3251]

Small aerospace metal shop manager here. All manual setups and a ton of bandsaws. This is absolutely fascinating and this guy has a much needed spirit if this country wants to flourish into the future.

[@Renvoxan]

Tactical comment for the algorithm 🫡 Hadrian and Chris are awesome

[@s3_build]

A true fan.

[@Renvoxan]

@@s3_build 🫡

[@mouritsen2]

I love this man. I’ve fretted for a long time about the state of manufacturing in the US. I came to the conclusion that to compete with the low cost of labor of China everything would have to be super automated. This guy gets it and is doing it. I can’t say with enough enthusiasm how happy this makes me.

[@albeit1]

Real wealth is built on climbing to the next level. Once manufacturing is automated with high cost and quality, shipping around the world will be hard to justify.

[@brianerbes7766]

Things will be mad cheap in the near future

[@NickSteffen]

To be fair the US is still the second largest manufacturer in the world (by more than double the next highest country), and the total value of manufactured goods produced by the US is the highest it’s ever been. That said a lot of those goods are final assembly of large systems composed of many parts a lot of which are imported. A lot of simple bread and butter parts are almost completely outsourced, think screws and nails etc. The problem is that most of these industries are not very profitable even in China and other places. No one wants to put their money down on a screw factory and get lucky if they make a tiny return. Ideally what we should be pursuing is a little bit of everything and incentive companies to maintain the capability to ramp up production if needed. That way if for some reason a country’s government subsidizes something like screw making we can take advantage but still maintain critical industries if and when they collapse or if they happen to sanction us.

[@CocoaBeachLiving]

Actually makes me feel like there's hope for us😎😎🇺🇸👍

[@nicholaswouters1203]

The googly eyes just make all the machines better

[@bodivanbodivan3668]

Id bet that they named that machine

[@wilhellmllw3608]

Going back in the channel to watch all the videos in order, this channel is gonna blow up! Great editing, very interesting companies!

[@fabian6917]

Awesome video! Thanks for publishing such great content, please keep on.

[@john.dough.]

I'm generally wary about people who talk about the "longevity of the Empire" (1:07) but his heart seems like it's in the right place.

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Oh don't you worry, I'm pretty sure the "empire" is circling the drain at this point

[@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD]

Probably attempting to bait or maintain gov contracts or funding... more power to him.

[@mrwayneright]

Another great video. I have been binge watching several just now. Hadrian, Dirac and Chroma. Hadrian is strong on manufacturing, and Dirac on manufacturing for assembly. Dirac has a problem with learning from legacy engineers, and Chroma has an AI solution where they imagine companies might rework their process to have AI learning at the core. They are all strong on the software layer. I think you need a video where you get these 5 people in a room for a brainstorm session and record whatever comes out.

[@fraserjeffrey7508]

Great video - I found out about Varda first and from there on in, have been hooked on the developments coming out of places like the Gundo. There's definately a positive vibe shift happening where people are daring to dream in a way they haven't done since the 60's. Perhaps one part of this is that so much momentum came off the back of big programs back then and it's taken several decades for the current reality to catch up of incrimentalism, red tape and lack of vision. Now there's a palpable awakening that we need to be daring and build the future we want to live in.

[@michael-nef]

Another great video! Looking forward to the 100k subscriber milestone next :)

[@AdamWeatherall]

Good job, keep up the great work!

[@PyMike]

"For the longevity of the Empire"

[@dezunne]

love this channel, keep 'em coming!

[@azaquarium123]

I work in a pretty small machine shop, we aren't even aerospace focused but damn Hadrian is impressive. Like everyone has too much freedom in the shop inlcuding me and there's little standardization, machines are old and can crash easily and we have decades old tool holders mixed with new ones, like it's an ok place to work but my boss is in his late seventies. Like we've improved but it's so slow, just a different level of operation. Honestly will probably leave the industry eventually.

[@vaclavkhun4416]

Extremely high quality content. This channel is very underrated. Keep it up man!

[@Joe-qm5qw]

Awesome, can't wait to see your progress!

[@tobinspiller2056]

Amazing content. Really engaging -- so many cool ideas in the world!!

[@MyrddinREmrys]

Amazing end to end thought process and execution.!

[@therapydogdogtrainer]

That was the coolest thing I’ve seen in so long…big things are coming

[@VDMQuickView]

I look forward to these videos every week. Great work, Jason!

[@s3_build]

It means the world to hear this, I work hard to keep this cadence :)

[@clayflannery2608]

Beautiful video and great host. Gotta see 2.0 when they run the loader arms

[@WillSmith-rd6ex]

Great quality videos; subscribed and sharing 🚀

[@Duarte_martins]

Brilliant vision and work. Hard to believe they’ve managed to build so much already. As someone from the software realm I find hardware startups like playing in hard mode (literally).

[@albeit1]

Hadrian is focused on a very important technology. The dude knows his stuff.

[@GraysonChalmers1]

Keep up the great work! 🙌

[@improlife7659]

Great idea to solve the supplier issues, good luck!

[@zeitgeist2720]

Impressive, I work at a small outfit manufacturing here in the states and it’s not easy. Crew of maybe 5 who really dig into our machines and only been doing it about 3 years so this gives me hope for the future.

[@marco.rychlik]

Super hard problem to solve. I worked also as a machinist and CAM admin 🤯🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@upfrontfood]

Truly amazing and inspiring. Someone should start a company like this in Holland!

[@HughHalfordThompson]

Great content - you'll scale your channel to 100k+ soon enough if you keep cranking these out. I really enjoyed this.

[@dertythegrower]

Nice.. good production... cheers.

[@dertythegrower]

What a clean factory... And i worked in a few before with similar machines(shorts) heh...

[@marcfruchtman9473]

This sounds great for that level of industry.

[@Chris-gq6fm]

Great work timmy

[@poetac15]

Amazing video. This is my dream company to work for.

[@charlescoult]

"It's not good enough to spin up a bunch of software companies to automate the thing - you really need to build full-stack factories"

[@FrankyFnFour]

American Manufacturing with German Made machinery (Heidenhain, Kuka) Great content!

[@ninefingers6306]

Kuka is chinese now, the Germans sold them.

[@amazin7006]

​@@ninefingers6306 Sad, at least most of their workers are still German. It is strange to see so much western tech companies being bought up by Chinese megacorps in the last few years. More recently I'm seeing them grab up smaller American startups before they can even grow

[@bernhard_derProtoTyp]

Hermle, Heidenhain, Lang, Kuka, Hexagon (Sweden) Doosan (South Korean) ...but yeah I´s probably hard pulling that off with a bunch of Haases :D

[@FrankyFnFour]

ugh, Kuka being Chinese now hurts my German heart.

[@FrankyFnFour]

LOL agree on pulling it off with Haases. I am judging purely on their F1 "performance" 😂

[@bernhard_derProtoTyp]

super cool and interesting company. also interesting what they rely on to safe american manufacturing: hermle, heidenhain, lang, kuka, hexagon... :D

[@closingtheloop2593]

will keep an eye on this

[@alexandrosfilth7042]

I wrote the white paper on the self replicating autofac. Cant wait to work with yall.

[@jorianrennen2742]

This is insanely interesting!!!

[@NeoNordstom]

This is beyond awesome.

[@spacewalker9375]

I cannot even begin to perceive how you would automate advanced manufacturing processes. It just seems so complicated and so expensive, I’m not even sure how you could build a business this way

[@TeganBurns]

Great work

[@lpmo3793]

As always great video! Where can i stream the music? The last song was so wild!

[@cmw3737]

Applying agile principles of fast iterations and automated testing to manufacturing is the engineering we need in such a fast changing world. It's what made me bullish on Tesla, beyond just being car company. It's great to see others taking it to the next level. Next round I want to invest in Hadrian.

[@sevenproxies]

Very goood young man!

[@markwrichards]

Excellent video. I am in manufacturing in the USA and it's difficult at best. Some things definitely need to be made locally but a lot of what we consume is likely better made in lower cost places which have scaled for this type of production. At least for now. For example China, as much as we in the USA currently bash them, has built out an amazing manufacturing infrastructure. As a USA based manufacturer of B2C products we struggle to eak out a profit competiting with Asia manufacturing. Higher costs and then our products are quickly knocked off. Forget patents. Takes too long and pretty much worthless for most products. But this looks interesting. Automation across the supply chain may be the change we need.

[@Jagentic]

Excellent.

[@makeandbreak127]

Funny how the "experts" tell us the opposite, that outsourcing labor and tools makes a country great.

[@muumarlin1731]

Incredible!

[@kjmorley]

You need to brand your thumbnails in someway so I know it’s you. Just about missed this amazing video! Even an S3 logo in the top left corner would suffice.

[@binzdewalch6300]

It’s amazing what you can do with a massive budget !! $$$$

[@voiceafx]

Love this.

[@crawkn]

This is the low-hanging fruit, which is a good place to start. This concept needs to expand rapidly to harder problems and less high-value-added, short production run parts, to do what it needs to do, which is substitute for human labor throughout manufacturing.

[@mossm717]

It’s wild how much manufacturing there actually is in southern California.

[@beofonemind]

This is incredible.

[@rolandjollivet38]

looks good! I hope they're machining in mm

[@colekeller]

Awesome

[@yankoaleksandrov]

amazing

[@peterclayton9506]

Brilliant

[@marco.rychlik]

This guy is, a genius!!

[@rupert310]

Hadrian's perspective is AMAZING!!! Watched an earlier video and the Solve to 80% move on to a new problem and solve to 80% is crucial to success.

[@valeriyproklov2868]

“Doors falling off from planes” 😂

[@brodriguez11000]

Problem, just not manufacturing.

[@SixFingeredAmish]

I laughed at "the longevity of the empire is super important"

[@mistermood4164]

he sounds super imperial.

[@Waitwhat469]

Hadrian is what positive patriotism looks like to me. Very exciting to see and honestly seems like a reasonable way to actually do what hyperscallers are doing in tech. Abstracting the parts that their costumers don't want to worry about and giving cutting edge precision and scale that would be a major hurdle in both skill and capital for tons of industry startups. Hope they succeed and even possible see if they can spark some selective opensource and knowledge sharing to really leverage what made AWS, GCP, Azure possible.

[@Hippida]

For tha Empire ! Yaaa

[@havek23]

If it's taken decades and we still can't get printers to work correctly (where digital world meets the physical), I can't imagine how difficult this is and how long it will take to get good-enough.

[@havek23]

Manufacturing defense equipment is super important cause if you have the best gear, but it takes months or a year to make a fighter plane or an aircraft carrier and you lose a couple of those in each battle... you're looking at months or years to replace them. If anything goes sideways and things get worse in the world, we need to be able to crank things out every week, not every month-year.

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Yeah it might also help if we STOP GIVING AWAY OUR INVENTORY TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

[@oghidden]

​@@censoredeveryday3320 Your average voter or citizen doesn't understand logistics or the nuances around it. Simply put, people don't understand the costs of procuring, decommissioning, or even storing policies placed around equipment. Storages full of 40yr+ old equipment and ammo still have an expiration, and the gov incurs a cost to replace old equipment with (you guessed it) still old equipment with outdated designs. The cost of decommissioning, retrofitting and disposal cost more than the item itself. We often loan and lease inventory that costs more for us to keep and takes up finite space in secure warehouses, while recuperating the cost. With equipment sent to Ukraine for example, it falls under lend lease. It also allows the US to purge unwanted inventory and allow for newer items without having to build additional infrastructure in storage/disposal alone.

[@censoredeveryday3320]

@@oghidden If we are giving Ukraine all of our old stockpiles, why are we giving them an additional 200+ billion dollars?

[@oghidden]

@@censoredeveryday3320 just do a search yourself, found the answer in 2min. The 200billion figure you’re referring to is a cumulative total of financial, military and humanitarian assets provided to Ukraine from ALL committed countries. The U.S. has provided 70 billion as of Jan 2024. 42bil of the 70bil is in existing assets. (E.g. Tanks, vehicles, missiles, ammo, etc).

[@alzorius]

this seems like the type of factory to spawn the terminator.

[@OBGynKenobi]

"The longevity of the EMPIRE is extremely important...??"

[@haf2567]

In ma happens to see someone that is not thinking like the rest of the people in the US the issue it's not about complaining it is what you are doing to change the situation at hand yeah I am proud of this gentleman he understands exactly what it takes to build a nation it is not about the Democrats nor it's the are Republican it is mostly what you can do for your country just like Kennedy said. And today we are seeing how manufacturing is coming back due to the fact that the Americans are taking it on to them to make it work.

[@benmidas]

Hadrian is very impressive

[@MorganGoins20299]

I like this guy

[@j6077xxd]

This dude is all over this.

[@jmasds7710]

WOW!!!!

[@teac117]

Do the google eyes throw off the virtual holder calculations at all?

[@marcdunivan2436]

Can it fully assemble a Peraves MonoRacer W19A-MRE-130? I assume Hadrian is doing what Arrival LTD (UK) is doing to build its EV's.

[@benbowers3613]

"Which for the longevity of the empire, is like extremely important." When did we start willingly referring to ourselves as an empire? Also I wonder how this guy feels about Pine Gap as an Aussie?

[@hungcapitalll]

First. This transition needs to happen so we can stay ahead at full speed

[@dertythegrower]

The last segment about the poster was very much spot on.. 💯

[@austinmackell9286]

''the longevity of the empire'

[@Thespiansewist]

A smart Australian serving USA manufacturing

[@tomwalling5796]

"It used to be in America such a prideful, important profession in trade that supports the whole base of society... and we just lost that..." Material handler starting pay at Hadrian: $15.16/hr.🤔

[@micah6635]

dope

[@gabrielvazquez1226]

where can we look to invest in companies like these?

[@donkeywhistler]

Oh great

[@kylewollman2239]

Sounds pretty cool! I do wonder how they'll be cost competitive with China, which is why American manufacturing died in the first place.

[@SunriseKnight]

As an engineer, where do I apply?

[@martybadboy]

8:56 Academia and Big Education created the disdain for skilled tradesmen.

[@antonclaeys]

why CMS quality control and not 3D scanning

[@armaansheikh2693]

What type of company is hadrain

[@william_8844]

How do I invest

[@dannyarcher6370]

"...for the longevity of the empire is extremely super important" I appreciate the candor albeit coming from the mouth of a citizen from a vassal state.

[@wussrestbrook1200]

Alexander bell was a scot but most people see him as American 🇺🇸. He can do the same if he gets citizenship

[@ImwithKyle]

Y’all are brilliant

[@satchelsieniewicz5824]

dam very defensey

[@PW060284]

It's weird to hear an Aussie give his full throated support of Pax Americana

[@gdmsave]

Hi! Did you use some AI software to clear voice? What is that?

[@sebastianreyes8025]

how do i, as somone with a software engineering and a lil ee background join yall?

[@alandeutsch9987]

This is a great idea, but my question is what will happen to the all the machinists whose jobs are displaced because of this, assuming it works as planned.