Cooperative Agreement 2607577

The National Science Foundation awarded a $2.351 million cooperative agreement to Adom Industries, Inc. on August 1, 2026, to establish a programmable cloud laboratory node for AI-driven electronics prototyping in Fort Worth, Texas, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084).

Adom Industries will operate a fully autonomous electronics prototyping facility integrating conversational AI with robotic work cells to enable remote hardware design, fabrication, and testing. Engineers nationwide will access the facility through a cloud interface to describe hardware needs, generate designs via AI, and have on-site robots automatically build and test physical prototypes. The laboratory will conduct high-throughput component evaluation, automated characterization, AI-driven firmware generation, and machine-learning-based empirical data generation.

Over the four-year performance period ending July 31, 2030, the project aims to produce breakthroughs in reproducible hardware design, cross-domain AI training datasets for electronics, and autonomous experimental design capabilities. The initiative targets acceleration of hardware innovation cycles from months to hours at reduced cost, reduction of dependence on overseas manufacturing, and strengthening of domestic supply chain resilience for critical technologies. University partnerships and open-source design tools will support next-generation engineer training. The facility will constitute a unique node within the National Programmable Cloud Lab Network.