From Living Machinery to Machines That Build Machines
Could the molecular machinery of life build tools that manufacture beyond biology? Could AI learn from each attempted step which machine to build next? Merion investigates both the physical bootstrap and the intelligence needed to navigate it. I'm exploring how to compress calculations, experiments, and failures into neural models that connect physics, assembly chemistry, synthesis routes, and equipment constraints across a vast design space. The goal is a nanofactory able to make components for its own manufacturing machinery.

