Welcome Felipe Polido, Co-Founder & Head of Technology at Reframe Systems on this episode of 🔥The Lantern 🔥
Reframe Systems is building affordable, resilient homes across the country powered by robotics, software, and a vertically integrated approach that’s redefining how we think about construction.
Founded by three Amazon Robotics alumni, Reframe is proving that the future of homebuilding starts on the factory floor…right here in Boston.
🏗️ What is Reframe Systems building in 2026? 🏗️
The team is 3 years in and accelerating. Reframe currently operates a facility in Andover, MA and is actively building a 12-home community in Devens, Mass. They have roughly $15M in signed contracts across both LA and Boston, making real progress toward their mission of making homes more affordable and resilient.
They’re also closing a new investment round in the months ahead, fueling growth across the company.
🧠 What makes Reframe’s approach unique? 🧠
This isn’t just modular housing. Reframe has built a deeply integrated operation, architecture, software, robotics, and field deployment all under one roof. Carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and engineers working side by side.
Every operator on the factory floor works from iPads with generated instructions. CNC machines and robotic systems pull from the same upstream software.
The team has built custom software that takes an architectural design and transforms it into manufacturing instructions with very low design cost, driving real efficiency across the entire pipeline.
🤔 What has Felipe learned from building physical AI companies? 🤔
Felipe’s career spans Amazon Robotics to now building a physical AI company from scratch.
His biggest lesson is to build manually first understand the requirements, and then ask if it should be automated.
Too often in robotics, engineers want to build the technology first and figure out where it fits later. Felipe urges builders to flip it, stat with the customer need, then build technology to serve it.
Sometimes that means a robot, sometimes it’s all software, sometimes it’s workflows. The goal is always the same: better cost, timeline, and quality for customers.
🤝 How can we help Reframe Systems grow? 🤝
Reframe is hiring across the board. Software developers, robotics engineers, mechanical engineers, architects, designers, etc.
If the mission of making housing more affordable and resilient blending robotics, AI, and real world impact Felipe and the team would love to connect!