Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/forget-robots-assembly-lines-foundational-industries-ai-to-run-entire-factory-manufacturing-china-robotics/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260801/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260801/p4#a260801p4" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lily Mae Lazarus / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/forget-robots-assembly-lines-foundational-industries-ai-to-run-entire-factory-manufacturing-china-robotics/">Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Jonathan Winer thinks the U.S. is fighting the wrong manufacturing war.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; His startup, Foundational Industries &hellip; </p>