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Company News October 15, 2026

Robotics-driven company to bring 80 jobs to Nambé Pueblo

Discovery 2 Scale will establish its headquarters and laboratory at Nambé Pueblo, creating more than 80 high-paying jobs and expanding New Mexico’s advanced materials manufacturing capabilities. With Local Economic Development Act support, D2S plans to lease and improve laboratory and office space.

“…the hard part is proving it works and figuring out how to make it at scale.”

— Dr. Saryu Fensin, Founder and CEO, Discovery 2 Scale

“…commercializing technology developed here…”

— Rob Black, New Mexico Economic Development Secretary
Read the official announcement

More Coverage

  • Expansion Solutions Magazine: D2S plans its Nambé Pueblo headquarters and laboratory, bringing more than 80 advanced-manufacturing jobs to northern New Mexico. Read more

  • Industrial Equipment News: A new startup founded by a longtime Los Alamos scientist aims to bring AI and robotics to materials manufacturing. Read more

  • The Manila Times: Regional coverage highlights D2S’s robotics-driven expansion and plans to create 80 jobs at Nambé Pueblo. Read more


Deployment of Autonomous Arc-Melting Platform

D2S CEO has deployed the world’s first autonomous arc-melting platform to accelerate the discovery and synthesis of advanced materials. By combining materials science expertise, AI-guided experiment planning, and robotic execution, the platform helps move faster from material concepts to physical samples ready for testing and qualification.


This approach reduces traditional bottlenecks in materials research by automating repetitive synthesis steps, capturing structured process data, and feeding each result back into the discovery loop.


• Featured by KRQE

Learn how the autonomous materials platform uses AI and robotics to accelerate advanced materials engineering and reduce the time between concept, experimentation, and qualification.

Read the KRQE Article:

• Featured on YouTube

See the autonomous foundry in action. This video highlights how AI agents, robotics, and materials science into a continuously learning platform that accelerates materials engineering from discovery through manufacturing validation.

Watch on YouTube:

Acknowledgment: Initial efforts highlighted in the news article began at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Recent Publications

The D2S team has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications spanning computational materials science, autonomous experimentation, advanced manufacturing, qualification, shock physics, and machine learning for materials engineering.


Explore our latest publications and ongoing research.