Inspiration
We've been building humanoids, drones, and rovers in Switzerland and every single time we lose time on CAD. The vision is to have a world model you can talk to, describe a change and see it happen
What it does
Iterate AI is a CAD assistant for mechanical engineers. Talk to it or type to it, describe what you want to change or analyze, and it turns that conversation into real, editable CAD designs. For the hackathon we managed to design a robotic arm with AI that we printed to test it out !
How we built it
Agentic LLM loop with Gemini for vision (drawings, images) and a custom CAD translation layer so the model can read and write geometry. ElevenLabs handles voice both ways. Boosted with our own mechanical-engineering datasets that we trained our models on during the hackathon
Challenges we ran into
LLMs are genuinely bad at spatial reasoning that's the core problem. On top of that: translating CAD into something a model can reason over, and voice latency.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have a demo video that amazed every engineer who saw it, several want to see the product develop so that they can use it for themselves !
What we learned
A lot. Main takeaway: PID and feedback loops aren't just for control systems, the same logic applies to building agentic AI
What's next for Iterate
Creating a world model, scaling for Manufacturing optimisation and simulation, the market is HUGE...
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