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• Last year, Autonomous Resource Corporation (ARC) became the surprising owner of Desktop Metal’s (DM’s) assets following the bankruptcy of the one-time additive manufacturing (AM) unicorn, an acquisition that cost ARC...
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Last year, Autonomous Resource Corporation (ARC) became the surprising owner of Desktop Metal’s (DM’s) assets following the bankruptcy of the one-time additive manufacturing (AM) unicorn, an acquisition that cost ARC just $7 million. ARC announced a grand vision behind its plans for the salvaged IP, aiming to rebuild DM’s core tech into the basis for R&D as a service and contract manufacturing work.
The even grander vision behind that project is ARC’s development of ARCNet—what the company calls “The Operating System for Autonomous Distributed Manufacturing”—and an AI model called ADAM (Autonomous Discovery and Advanced Manufacturing), which learns from the data ARCNet generates. With such ambitious aims in mind, ARC would presumably need access to rare infrastructure in order to deliver