Tag: Targeted Microbial Fermentation

After AI – Warm Robots

The Machines That Heal—and the Circular Economy They’re Building

She looks almost human. Porcelain skin, careful eyes, anatomical symmetry—delicate, not threatening. A beautiful contradiction. The image evokes a future we’ve long imagined: robots that walk beside us, feel with us, care for us.

But this isn’t the warm robot we meant.

Because the real warm robots—ours—don’t smile or stand. They don’t blink, speak, or age.
They are microbes.
Alive, invisible, programmable.

They live in tanks. They breathe carbon. They manufacture the building blocks of the post-pollution world: fuels, chemicals, nutrients, and materials. And now, aided by generative AI, they are evolving—stacking complexity, mimicking natural processes, and operating with the efficiency of the human brain and the regenerative elegance of skin and bone.

We call this new capability Industrial Lifestacking.
It’s not robotics. It’s regeneration.
Not imitation—but biological infrastructure, scaled.

The Living Stack

Long before artificial intelligence could speak, microbes were building. While generative models were still learning language, fermentation vessels were already producing ethanol, biodegradable polymers, and essential proteins from nothing more than carbon waste and biological design.

What makes this possible is a structure we call the Living Stack—a three-layered system that turns industrial chaos into organic precision:

AI serves as the design layer, where biological systems are mapped, metabolic pathways are simulated, and yield efficiency is optimised.
Gene Editing functions as the software layer, rewriting microbial DNA to perform intentional functions—from synthesising alcohols to building amino acid chains.
Targeted Microbial Fermentation (TMF) forms the hardware layer, where gas-fed microbes in controlled environments transform design and code into physical product.

This stack doesn’t run on electricity alone. It runs on carbon. It doesn’t output noise or abstraction. It outputs life.

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Leveraging Direct Air Capture (DAC) for Targeted Microbial Fermentation

Harnessing PEGASUS: Direct Air Capture Meets HPG + TMF in the Race to Regenerate Carbon

How TITAN and ASMARA transform carbon from problem to product in line with EU priorities

As Europe confronts rising temperatures, tightening emissions targets, and increasing resource instability, a fundamental shift is underway: carbon is no longer seen only as waste, but as feedstock. This shift is visible in new industrial strategies, circular economy goals, and bioeconomy frameworks—but it needs infrastructure to deliver.

That’s where PEGASUS, a modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) system developed for integration with the TITAN and ASMARA platforms, enters the picture. It offers a breakthrough solution: capturing carbon from the air or industrial sources and transforming it into fuels, chemicals, materials, or even nutrients, via the microbial fermentation infrastructure already embedded within TITAN and ASMARA.

This is not speculative. It is already working in pilot, and it fits squarely within existing and forthcoming EU directives.

TITAN and ASMARA: Carbon-Circular by Design

TITAN, built for rural zones, converts forest and agricultural waste into hydrogen-rich gas (HPG) and uses microbial fermentation (TMF) to convert that gas into second-generation ethanol, biochemicals, and energy. ASMARA performs the same function in urban areas using sorted municipal solid waste (MSW). These platforms are modular, scalable, and already aligned with Europe’s Green Deal, REPowerEU, and Fit for 55 objectives.

Adding PEGASUS enhances these platforms by introducing a steady, high-purity stream of captured CO₂, which TMF microbes can metabolise directly. Rather than storing the carbon underground, as most current DAC-to-CCS models propose, PEGASUS routes the carbon into productive pathways—ensuring economic as well as ecological value.

This becomes especially powerful when blending CO₂ from multiple sources. For example:

  • Captured emissions from cement or steel plants (typically high in volume but lower in purity),
  • Ambient CO₂ captured via PEGASUS DAC (typically lower in volume but high in purity).

Blending both streams produces an optimised fermentation feedstock suitable for high-volume biofuels or specialised bio-based outputs. In fact, the purity of DAC opens entirely new metabolic pathways, allowing the production of advanced molecules such as bio-based solvents, high-purity organic acids, or even smart proteins like insulin analogues and bioactive lipids.

This is not just a carbon-negative process. It is biomanufacturing from thin air.

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